On the afternoon of May 20th, Ninghai Seed Industry Strong County Talent Development Forum was held. Zheng Minqiang, member of the Standing Committee of Ningbo Municipal Committee and Minister of Organization Department, Chen Jianping, academician of China Academy of Engineering, and Teng Anda, secretary of Ninghai County Party Committee delivered speeches respectively.
Teng Anda, on behalf of the county party committee and government, extended the most sincere welcome to all the guests, and extended the most heartfelt thanks to all of you for your long-term concern and support for the development of agriculture, rural areas and farmers and seed industry in Ninghai. He said that in recent years, Ninghai has vigorously implemented the project of improved varieties and good seedlings, and used the scientific research “super brain” to help Ninghai’s seed industry out of the circle. This year, Ninghai was awarded the first national-level rice seed production county in the province, and was included in the list of national modern agricultural industrial parks in 2022. The added value of the first quarter and the growth rate of the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery ranked first in the city. This forum is of great significance to Ninghai. It is hoped that through the holding of the forum, innovative elements such as “financial media for politics and Industry-University-Research” will meet and blend here, and guests and friends such as experts, scholars, corporate executives and investment coffee will collide across the border here, forming a number of innovative achievements with strategic height, theoretical depth and practical contribution. Ninghai will certainly digest and transform the achievements of this forum, especially the insights of experts such as Academician Chen Jianping, further promote the deep integration of seed science and technology with industries, enterprises and talents, and light up the bright future of seed industry development.
Zheng Minqiang said that seeds are the foundation of food, and excellent seeds will lead to abundant food, and abundant food will lead to prosperity. Small seeds have a great bearing on security and the safety of China people’s rice bowls. Small seeds breed great common prosperity, and seeds represent hope, contain strength and create miracles. Ninghai should give full play to the advantages of seed industry resources, make good use of this cornucopia and play the strongest voice of “seed industry revitalization” to promote common prosperity. Small seeds need great support, so we should continue to strengthen the concept of talent-oriented and inject strong innovation momentum into the iterative development of seed industry. I hope Ninghai will take this forum as an opportunity to make full use of living talents and innovative resources to accelerate the creation of a highland for innovation and development of modern seed industry. I hope that Academician Chen Jianping and other experts will give advice and suggestions for the development of seed industry in Ningbo, so that more and more improved varieties can realize “Made in Ningbo”, go out of Zhejiang and go to the whole country.
Chen Jianping delivered a speech and gave a keynote speech. He said that Ninghai attached great importance to the development of modern agriculture, continued to improve relevant policies, increased the security of funds, actively promoted the centralized and contiguous transfer of land, vigorously promoted agricultural mechanization and intelligence, and gained gold-lettered signboards such as national rice seed production counties. I hope Ninghai will continue to do a good job in promoting agriculture through science and technology and strengthening agriculture through talents, sincerely love talents, carefully cultivate talents, and sincerely introduce talents to gather more talents to serve the development of agriculture and seed industry in Ninghai. It is necessary to establish a macro-agricultural concept, take the development path of “whole industrial chain, full greening, deep integration, high added value and strong competitiveness”, continuously improve the development efficiency of seed industry, create a seed industry development model with Ninghai characteristics, and strive to be a pioneer and leader.
Academician of China Academy of Engineering, School of Life, China Ocean University..Dean Bao Zhenmin, deputy director and researcher of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Research Institute of Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, talked about jon jonsson and other experts sending messages to Ninghai through VCR. Bao Zhenmin said that seeds are the chips of agriculture, and Ninghai has always been the vanguard of seed industry development in Ningbo, especially in the field of hybrid rice and aquatic seedling propagation. In the future, relying on Ningbo Institute of Marine Biological Seed Industry and focusing on the industrial characteristics of Ninghai, we will unite domestic and foreign experts to carry out scientific and technological research on aquaculture seed industry and make contributions to the development of Ninghai seed industry.
Wang Xinchao, deputy director of Tea Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, chief scientist of “Innovation Team of Tea Tree Genetics and Breeding”, director of Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fishery Healthy Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, director of Zhejiang Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute, chief expert of aquatic breeding in the 13th Five-Year Plan, and Bao Chonglai, director of Institute of Food Science of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, gave keynote speeches on their respective research fields.
At the forum, a national seed production county was unveiled. At the same time, the development plan of Ninghai county’s modern seed industry strong county construction and the special measures for talent protection of seed industry strong county, as well as the order for recruiting talents in the field of seed industry, were issued. Under the witness of everyone, two projects, Mingzhi Group Facility Breeding and Ninghai Rare and Rich Doctor Workstation, were signed.
(Source: Ninghai County Science and Technology Bureau)