Zhang Taolin, Vice Minister of Agriculture: Accelerate scientific and technological innovation to improve the development level of modern seed industry

On August 11-12, the expert forum on technological innovation and industrial development of seed industry was held in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. Zhang Taolin, Vice Minister of agriculture, stressed at the forum that seed industry is an agricultural leading industry and science and technology intensive industry, and is the source of agricultural production and the key to food security. It is necessary to speed up the scientific and technological innovation of the seed industry, establish a scientific and technological innovation system of the seed industry with Chinese characteristics, promote the integration of production, teaching and research, and the integration of breeding, reproduction and promotion, and comprehensively improve the level of scientific and technological innovation and industrial development of the modern seed industry.

Zhang Taolin pointed out that the Party Central Committee and the State Council have always attached great importance to seed work, and the development of the seed industry has achieved remarkable results. However, compared with the requirements of modern agriculture, compared with the developed countries of seed industry, the overall level of scientific and technological innovation of seed industry in China is not high, and the gap is large, and the innovation of seed industry is facing increasingly severe challenges. At present, the focus of competition in the seed industry has expanded from varieties to genetic resources and intellectual property rights, and from simple breeding technology to the competition of comprehensive strength of scientific and technological innovation. The requirements of agricultural production for variety innovation not only include economic indicators such as high yield and high quality, but also more comprehensive trait indicators such as multi-resistance, wide adaptability, resource conservation, and environmental friendliness. The task of accelerating scientific and technological innovation in the seed industry in China is still very arduous.
Zhang Taolin requested that to accelerate the technological innovation of the seed industry, we must innovate systems and mechanisms, improve policies and measures, and focus on the following five aspects: First, accelerate the establishment of a seed industry technological innovation system with Chinese characteristics, and improve the benefit distribution mechanism, especially intellectual property rights. With the management and achievement evaluation system as the core, we will promote the integration of basic material creation, variety research and development, improved seed breeding, demonstration and promotion, and construction with industry as the main body, A modern seed industry technology innovation system that combines production, education and research, integrates breeding, reproduction and promotion, shares risks, shares benefits, and has a clear division of labor. The second is to strengthen the stable investment in the basic and public welfare research of the seed industry, increase the collection, protection and identification of germplasm resources, strengthen the large-scale exploration and utilization of germplasm gene resources, and deepen the basic frontier research of the seed industry. The third is to speed up the improvement of the innovation ability of seed enterprises, support the integration of breeding and breeding seed enterprises to gather breeding resources, expand the scale of commercial breeding, and at the same time encourage and promote seed enterprises to increase research and development efforts, establish their own scientific research and breeding system, and support the integration of breeding and breeding seed enterprises breeding and production conditions and capacity building. The fourth is to accelerate the in-depth integration of industry, education and research, accelerate the cooperation between science and enterprises, guide enterprises and scientific research and teaching units to jointly build a joint innovation platform, promote the transfer of science and technology and achievements to enterprises, innovate the organizational model of the combination of production, education and research in the seed industry, and give full play to intermediary agencies, etc. The bridge link and promotion role of the organization. The fifth is to accelerate the establishment of a public platform for the transformation and trading of scientific research results, accelerate the transformation and application of new technologies and new varieties formed by public financial support, and at the same time rely on the reform of the grassroots agricultural technology extension system and the construction of demonstration counties, and the creation of high-yield demonstration films to strengthen the integration of improved varieties and methods, Accelerate the promotion of new varieties of experimental demonstration and application, and increase the coverage of improved varieties.