China has firm control over its own food supply
People’s
Daily, Jiang Jianke
Looking
just like regular corn, a new corn variety containing high
folic acids will hit Chinese supermarkets by the end of September.
The
incoming product, which contains 200 to 240 micrograms of folic acids per 100
grams, could prevent folic acid deficiency in the human body, according to
Zhang Chunyi, deputy director of the Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese
Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Seeds
are key for improving crop production and productivity. One seed can change the
world, and one crop variety could benefit a country.
Thanks
to the research efforts of generations of Chinese scientists, China has changed
from a country having a critically low food supply to an adequate one.
Since
the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Chinese scientists have
successfully cultivated more than 50,000 approved and registered crop varieties,
making great contributions to the national goal of “having control over our own
food supply”.
The
country has made extraordinary achievements in scientific research on seeds over
the past 70 years.
Chinese
scientists, represented by Yuan Longping and Li Zhensheng, two national top
science and technology award winners, have been granted a large number of
patents in breeding theories, methods and materials, providing great support
for improving grain yield and safety.
Li
Denghai, known as “the father of China’s compact hybrid corn”, has selected and
bred more than 80 high-yield new corn varieties, which broke the summer corn
high yield record six times.
Zhao
Hongzhang, a scientist in the field of wheat breeding in China, has
successively cultivated four batches of fine wheat varieties represented by “Bima
No. 1”, “Fengchan No. 3”, “Aifeng No. 3” and “Xinong 881”, with an accumulative
planting area of 950 million mu, or 63 million hectares.
Over
the past 70 years, China’s overall grain production capacity has been improving
steadily. It is the seeds independently developed by China that raised the
Chinese people.
Over
the same period, China has established efficient breeding systems for super
rice, dwarf-male-sterile wheat and hybrid corn. At present, China’s rice, wheat
and other crop varieties are all independent, enabling the country to plant
crops with its own seeds.
China has firm control over its own food supply
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