【平阳县】Welcome to the New Era of Chinese Science

陈恬 2021-08-13 17:50:20

Provided that our human society intends to acquire and enjoy long-time prosperity, it is advisable for human to maintain their innovative mind and improve advanced technology. "Extraordinary Future: Chinese Science Stories You Don't Know", the documentary talking about China's scientific and technological frontier, has emerged an unprecedented "Chinese technology craze" overseas, showing us the new era of Chinese science.

Today China produces more scientists than any other country which is among the best on the planet. It leads our fields in medicine, robotics, radio astronomy, high energy physics, quantum computing and cosmology. From reinventing food production, helping to feed almost eight billion of us, to tackling the diseases of old age, and building a more sustainable society, China is showing us the way. Their work is not only shaping the future of China, but the future for all of the world.

What impressed me most in the documentary is the part of "farming frontiers". How to feed the world sustainably can be one of the greatest challenges in the third decade of the 21th century. China, which has to feed one fifth of the world’s people with just seven percent of the world’s arable land, is striving to change the way it farms to feed its population by science and technology.

Gao Caixia, a plant biologist, leads her group to research genome editing technology to harvest vegetables and fruits with higher nutritional value and longer shelf life. Indeed, no one can succeed and prosper without willpower and curiosity. "Every day when I woke up, the first thing I thought about was what is the new achievement we have got in the experiment", Gao said. Fortunately, it is a great pleasure for us to see Gao’s group has solved the problem of "how to cut" , "where to cut" and achieved significant research results in genome editing technology.

Animal farming is reformed, too. In contrast to the huge consumption of pork, pork farming in China is mainly dominated by small-scale, family-owned farming economy. The lack of biotechnology and automation leads to low pork production capacity and high costs in China, which costs twice as much per kilogram of pork as in the US. Li Jialong and his team devoted themselves to develop a system for raising pigs. Cameras, automated inspection robots and sound collectors are equipped in the system so that it can identify each pig's characteristic points and movements to accurately control how much they eat. It can be predicted for a great deal of cost to be saved with the vigorous promotion of the new system.

Like the old saying goes,"Science and technology are primary productive force." Living in an era of technology, we should bear in mind that technology and innovation do enhance the scientific, industrial and productive advancement. Thanks to the work of scientists day and night, today we can proudly announce the world, "Welcome to a new age of Chinese science!"