Agricultural science and technology innovation has become China's agricultural development "engine"

This reporter recently learned from the Ministry of Science, agriculture, science and technology innovation as the crack "San Nong" problem, and building a socialist new countryside made important explorations, for the implementation of technology and education, develop modern agriculture and promote the building of an innovative country, made an important contribution to has truly become the promotion of national agricultural development "engine."

May 1, 1949, North China Institute of Agricultural Sciences set up the establishment of the new China's first agricultural research institutions.

March 1, 1957, the State Council approved the establishment of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Since then, China's forestry, agriculture, and aquaculture in the national research institutes set up one after another.

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Since 1958, the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences have been set up provincial and regional agricultural, initially formed, including national, provincial and prefectural agricultural research system. Thus the cause of China's agricultural scientific and technological innovation embarked on the path of scientific development.

New China was founded 60 years ago, in order to advance the cause of China's agricultural science and technology innovation to flourish, rural science and technology service system steadily, and the CPC Central Committee, the State Council formulated a series of agricultural science and technology development planning. In February 1963, the CPC Central Committee, the State Council convened a "national work conference on agricultural science and technology"; in January 2001, the State Council held the second national agricultural science and technology of the General Assembly that we would expedite the pursuit of agriculture from the main quantity to quality and efficiency-oriented fundamental change. From 2004 to 2009, the CPC Central Committee issued six straight on the "three rural" issue of the Central One document, proposed to further strengthen the agricultural research and technology promotion, building national agricultural technology innovation system, in order to indicate the development of agricultural science and technology work direction.

In terms of policy support at the same time, the state also introduced a number of specific support programs. For example, agricultural science and technology achievements into practical productive forces as the key to the CPC Central Committee has been great concern and attention of the State Council. In April 2001, by the State Council's approval, the central government began to set up a "national agricultural scientific and technological achievements into money" special.

From 2001 to 2008 period, the total earmarked 2.25 billion invested, a total of 3784 project to support and guide the other social capital invested 14 billion yuan to develop new varieties of various types of flora and fauna 8560, new product 4846, promotion of new varieties of plants an area of 3.08 million mu, the establishment of pilot lines 2730, led to more than 5200 million farmers income. The success of transformation of scientific and technological achievements in agriculture has made great economic, social and ecological benefits, in the promotion of industrial structure adjustment of agriculture, agricultural efficiency of the section, increasing employment, expand the tax base, improving the environment has played an active role. (Xinhua Gu Ruizhen)