“in the northern part of china, all the leaves of the other plants, with the exception of pine and twilight, have been emptied and killed. "if we grow storks, especially in villages, roads, rivers and mountains, a string of red berries will change the winter."
I met professor lee shin in 2013. Professor lee's only daughter, who lives in canada, is a fellow university student. I went to canada in 2013 and the couple invited me to dinner. Ask your classmates at dinner, why don't you take your father to stay with you? I know that her mother died and her father was alone in the country. Her answer surprised me, and she said he wouldn't come because of his career in the country. I was surprised, and i went on to ask how old your father was, and she said he was 85 years old, and he promoted yellow autumn cultivation in the country. I'm interested in that, because i didn't know there were plants called autumn. I told you to give me your father's phone and i'll call him when i get home. Not a few days after his return to the country, he called me and asked me to meet and talk to him。
He lived in the family home of the central school of plants, where he met and took me to his test field. He's got half a bag of fertilizer. I'm gonna help him. He's declined. He's got a bit of a camel back, but he's fast. I'm gonna have to go for a run to keep up. Although he has been absent for more than 20 years (li xin joined the chinese people's liberation army in june 1949), he has been given an acre to experiment with the planting of sunflower. A dozen species of yellow autumn were planted in the field. He said that the autumn, which had been introduced from india, was a tropical plant that had begun growing in hainan and then in guangdong, guangxi, hunan and jiangxi, had grown well. He chose a number of varieties to grow in beijing, and if production is significant, the next step is to spread to henan and hebei. For the first time, i saw yellow aces, and i saw so many varieties of yellow autumn, and i was excited. Back at his home, he had the assistant cook a table of dishes, all of which were about the autumn, with the autumn, the eggs, the autumn, the chicken autumn, the steak autumn, the fried autumn, and so on. He said that, for my sake, he had asked his assistant to go to the wholesale market in the new place to buy the autumn. I asked for a pound, the assistant said $20 a pound, and i said it was a little expensive. Professor li hin said that these autumn are brought from the south, that many people don't know, that they don't sell much, that they're expensive, that if they spread widely, they'll be as expensive as cabbage, and that ordinary people will be able to eat it. He went on to say that the autumn is a healthy food and that the production is high and of wider value. I said, how many pounds of seeds per acre, he said. I asked how much a pound of seed was, where there was, and he said i had 500 pounds. I bought five pounds of $2500 from the bag. He didn't have the courtesy to take the money and put five bags of seeds in a plastic bag. Seeing professor lee shin, he felt that he had gained a lot of money, both in terms of knowing the yellow autumn and buying seeds。
I got the seeds, i got sad again. It is almost 500 km south of beijing, with no problems with temperature, little rain in the spring, salinization of the land, and no sense of survival. Give it to the local authorities, and don't help. Uncle, you're old. I thought of my brother-in-law han hsien lin, who was in his 60s, had a flexible mind and gave him the seeds to try and plant, which might have been successful, unsuccessful and without much loss. When he came home for spring, he said he was happy to accept it, but to see how other people grow it. I immediately called professor lee, who said that he was planting yellow autumn in hainan, so they could come to hainan. So i bought a ticket for zhengzhou to the sea and stayed a week after he flew to hainan to watch the whole autumn planting process. Professor li hin taught them the mains of planting and management. His brother-in-law planted four acres and his uncle planted one. It's good, but it won't sell. Brother-in-law called me and asked me to help sell. I was too busy to give them more energy to reach out to their clients, so they shipped the autumn nuts to beijing's new-emerge market, sold them to little profit, but collected more than 1,000 pounds of seed. I asked professor lee shin if he could make seeds, and he said he could, and he recovered them at $30 a pound. Dozens of acres were planted in the second year because the proceeds were much higher than those of maize. In order to attract the attention of the county governments, i also accompanied professor li xin to our county, where i gave a special lecture to the county agricultural authority on the cultivation of yellow autumn for days without any remuneration. Since then, the autumn has taken root in our district, with growing cultivation。
In november 2015, professor lee called me and asked me to visit him. He took me to a tree planted in the garden of the plant, full of red fruit, which was beautiful. Professor lee, this tree is called yamako. In the late 1950s, they brought from sichuan a few saplings and planted them into the peking botanical garden. They survived two trees, which now grow into giant trees and bloom each year. Four years ago, he experimented several times before he bred the seeds of the trees out of the tree and out of the fruit, and went through a winter without falling. I can't believe it. I'll come back next spring. In march of the following year, as promised, i came to professor lee's house and asked him to show me the fruit of the tree, and i saw it still red. In order to prevent the bird from eating the seeds, he paid $3,000 for plastic nets to cover the trees. He then talked about his vision that, in the northern part of china, all the leaves of the other plants, except for pineapple and holly, had been emptied and killed. If we grow a herring, especially on villages, roads, rivers and mountains, a string of red berries will change the winter landscape. I said if you were eaten by birds, you wouldn't be able to survive the winter. He said that the fear of birds eating was due to the small number of birds eating. When he said that, i remembered a poem in which he said, "the squirming of a hamster's fury is full of sorrow." professor lee's words are as full of philosophy as his poems. He also said that he had a dream to “red all over china” the yamako fruit, and that i must help him realize that dream. This dream, too, is rhetorical. When he was 88 years old, an old man with thin white hair and a bit of a camel's back, but his heart was young and could be described as hot. How can i turn away when i am touched by his ambition。
In a few days, i contacted comrade liu yanhua, then vice-minister of science and technology, hoping he'd come to the plant over the weekend to see a tree called yamagi, and he said he hadn't heard it, and i said you'd see it. On sunday, minister liu went from home to the central school of plants, and after i met him, he asked me if it was necessary to come here and see a tree? When he approached the tree and saw the red fruit hanging on the treetops of the first spring, he filmed his mobile phone. In the presence of professor lee, support was expressed for the promotion of research on yamako。
In april 2016, i accompanied professor lee shin to see comrade ma woo, then mayor of zhang jiaguchi. Prof. Lee hin has proposed to plant the mountain storks at the winter olympics, four years later in 2020. In 2022, there was not only white snow, but also red nectar fruit, which met each other. Sichuan has a company chief who is willing to donate 20,000 seedlings. But i believe that the cold climate in zhang's mouth does not necessarily make it possible for the sichuan seedlings to survive, and it is recommended that they be planted on a trial basis and then on a large scale. Professor li xin prepared 30 seedlings, which the mayor gave to the zhang jiakou city forestry office, and instructed them to plant in hualai county, near zhang's house and in the premises of the winter olympics skiing grounds, respectively. After that, i kept calling about the tree, which was very well grown in three places. By the spring of the following year, apart from the new sprouts, both of them died. Prof. Lee did not give up, but found that there were so many trees and euphemisms around the winter olympics, and that the test of marrying the pelicans on the pyres and euphemisms had failed. Soon after, comrade ma woo-jun was transferred from zhang jiaguchi to head the hebei ministry of science and technology, and i joined professor li xin to meet with him at shijia, asking the hebei provincial department of science and technology to support her in research and promotion. At that time, he was moved by the old scientists of the 90th year, who immediately expressed their support and, as vice-minister yoo yanhua said, had to be declared according to procedure。
It's a coincidence that when i met with the chairman of a company in hebei province, he asked me to recommend investment projects. His name is ford hen. He's a successful start-up, but he's not a big one. I didn't think about what could make money. I told you, what are you doing? What did he say about the project? I showed him the video on the phone about yamako and told him that it was a project that the country had to do for the people, but that it would not make money in the short term. He asked how much? I said not less than $5 million. And he asked, "who did you vote for?" what for? I said that i would give $1 million to the institute of plants of the chinese academy of sciences for basic research and the selection of excellent varieties; $1 million to the chinese academy of forestry for the development of varieties that are resistant to drought; and $1 million to the clean detoxification and food certification study of the yamagi oil. The remaining 2 million will be used for pilot promotion in hebei. I say these projects are public goods, no returns. Didn't think he would agree. I then introduced him to professor lee, who assisted him in making contact, and the projects played an important role in the research and development of yamako. Chairman fu also established the yamako development department at the company, which has invested both financial and human resources. He arranges visits to sichuan and purchases seedlings, which are planted on the basis of professor lee's advice, in places such as zhuang, zhuang, zhijiang, etc. The seedlings planted on the pavilion did not germinate the following spring due to inadequate local care. It is a pity that a heavy rain has drowned 200 acres of the forest trees that are about to be produced, which has been a great blow to chairman fu, but i am greatly admired for his dedication to pro bono activities and for his funding of research。
The more i know about yamako, the more i worry. Monk is not only of ecological value but also of economic value, i. E., the oily rate of fruit is high, it is of good quality wood oil, but it is not certified by the state as edible oil, the demand for markets is much less important, and thus processing and marketing is still a long way to go. As a scientist, prof. Li xin has worked tirelessly to carry out scientific research and to provide its results to society at no cost and without reservation. Some enterprises in sichuan and hubei feel profitable, and have grown large numbers of seedlings to farmers, and one company has also advertised the “backs, happy life” commercial, and some farmers have planted it on their own contracts, but who buys it, who processes it, who opens the market? That's what i'm worried about. All i can do is promote the national certification of mountain stork oil consumption and the closure of mountain stork oil processing technology so that it can be sold legally on the market. With the support of chairman fu, the shaanxi oil research institute has successfully adopted a national certification of the processing separation technology for colline oil, opening the way for the processing and entry into the market。
In may 2021, under my coordination, the chinese institute of territorial economics hosted a seminar in beijing on the “sichuan kiriko and his forest plantations”, organized by the institute of plants of the chinese academy of science and technology and co-sponsored by sichuan kiryu biotechnic development limited. I chaired the morning seminar, which was attended and addressed by comrade ko joon-shik, former director of the department of agriculture and economic development of the national development commission; comrade wang zhuo, former director of the department of forestry and forestry of the national forest and grass office; and comrade tiemin, former director of finance of the department of poverty alleviation of the state council. At the conference, professor li hin presented the initiative “technology for farming, qingshan for gold”. The leaders and experts agreed that the strong development of the mountain yarn industry, with its ecological value, value appreciation and economic value, was an effective way to help revitalize villages and put the “two mountains theory” into practice。
When the seminar was held in 2021, professor li shin was 93 years old, and the initiative he had taken after running for a good seminar was full of pride. Although he was far from his “red to china” goal, there was a growing perception that it would certainly be achieved. In writing, i think of what max said: “there is no flat road on the path of science, and only those who do not fear climbing along steep mountains can hope to reach the height of light.”
