Chapter 550: Professor Yi's Ambition (Part 2)
Although his theoretical research is now relatively mature, his research group still has a key thing to find!
This problem has not been solved yet, and if they can solve these problems this time, then Professor Yi believes that their theory may be put into practice!
And what they are looking for must be in the desert, it must be in the desert!
"Can you take us to the orchard?"
At this time, after seeing these fresh fruits from Wuhai Farm, Professor Yi and others became more enthusiastic about conquering the desert!
As long as all these lands are converted into arable land, it is difficult not only to completely solve the environmental deterioration problem of desertification in various places, but also to save a large amount of money for sand control, and all places no longer have to bear the pain of yellow sand flying all over the sky!
Moreover, turning these deserts into arable land means creating priceless wealth for the country, for the people!
Although the country's propaganda has always said that the most important thing in the 21st century is talent, for China, there is actually one thing that is as important as talent, and that is land!
If the country's arable land could be doubled, the variety of food in China would be greatly increased, and the demand for fertilizers, pesticides and even genetically modified crops would be greatly reduced!
Although the extensive use of pesticides and fertilizers can improve the yield of crops, the resulting environmental pollution, mainly water pollution and soil pollution, has become more and more serious, and these problems have reached a point where they must be solved!
And the main reason why so many fertilizers and pesticides need to be used is that China's arable land is so small!
China feeds 22% of the world's population with 13% of the world's arable land!
This is the propaganda content in the primary school textbook, and it was a very proud thing back then!
It is also a very commendable achievement until now, but if you think about it carefully, what kind of hardship and helplessness is behind feeding 22% of the population with 13% of the arable land, few people may notice!
China's per capita arable land area is very low, and there are few large plains, a few better plains like Henan and Northeast China, these places are basically positioned by the state as a large grain producing province, in order to maintain grain production, these places of industrial land and other land need to be strictly approved, the official for the encroachment of cultivated land is very, very unsupportive, and even if such behavior is found, will take very severe punishment measures!
Why?
Because the grain production in these places remains stable, it is really of great significance to the country!
If the food supply of these major food-producing provinces cannot be stabilized, who will depend on the food supply of large cities such as Beijing and Modu, which are densely populated but have little arable land?
There are few places south of the Yangtze River that are flat, except for Hubei, where food self-sufficiency in the south of the common place has become a problem, and places like Guizhou, because they are all mountainous, there is not even a flat land to build a village, and if you farm the fields, you even need to get terraces in the mountains little by little!
Many people see the beauty of the terraces, but they don't find the sadness behind it, if there are large pieces of flat land, who will be thankless to plant these machinery can not go up, labor all rely on human and animal power terraces?
And why do we need to ensure the stability of food, because these are the most basic food problems related to food, clothing, housing and transportation!
If people don't have food to eat, they will die, and too many dynasties in ancient times perished because they couldn't meet the self-sufficiency of food!
Moreover, China's population is too large, and if there is a huge food shortage of 1.3 billion people, the world's grain exports together may not be able to meet China's needs!
Thai fragrant rice is indeed delicious, but in such a big place in Thailand, can they bear the food needs of so many people in China?
Obviously, they can't afford it!
Even if the countries of the world come together and can supply China's food needs, how do you transport it back?
As long as others clash with you and cut off your food supply lines, you will starve to death!
Relying on the outside world for food is tantamount to putting national security in the hands of others, and this is certainly unacceptable!
Therefore, any country in the world that is responsible for its own citizens and has such a sense of crisis is desperately trying to protect its own agriculture, as much as possible to maintain its own agricultural self-sufficiency, while being controlled by others, for example, countries like Neon and South Korea, the land area is small, the price of food is very high, if they import food from other countries, they will definitely be able to reduce the cost of living of the domestic people, and can also reduce the financial burden of the huge agricultural subsidies every year!
But they don't dare to do this, preferring huge subsidies every year, preferring the prices of domestic agricultural products to soar to the sky, and protecting their own agriculture!
This is because they know that after opening up their own agricultural markets, under the impact of foreign agricultural powers, their own agriculture will inevitably wither due to lack of competitiveness, and then the agricultural foundation will be destroyed, and once the external environment deteriorates, they will not even have food to eat!
And China's desert is huge!
Inner Mongolia region, Qinghai, Gansu and other places, Western Xinjiang and other places, the deserts in these places are bigger than one another, one has potential more than the other, especially the Taklamakan Desert, this desert is the second largest desert in the world, if all are well managed, not only has great significance to China's agriculture, but also with the help of this agricultural migration to the past Han groups, but also because of the stability of the border areas, these are two things that kill two birds with one stone!
Moreover, doesn't the large-scale development of the western region need such opportunities and opportunities?
As long as the desert is greened, then profitable enterprises, driven by the policy, will naturally flock to these places on their own, and the long-stalled strategy for the large-scale development of the western region may be revitalized at that time!
Moreover, some scholars have recently been working on the Eurasian railway project connecting Europe across Central Asia, if the desert problem in western Xinjiang is well managed, and there is a guarantee of food and manpower, then the difficulty of implementing this policy will naturally be greatly reduced!
Professor Yi feels that the future of his research project is bright, and if it is successful, he may be able to become a figure like Academician Yuan Longping and obtain the highest honor, which is very attractive to him!