Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 126 Breeding Base
"I can only say that the future is promising, but there is little hope of making money in a short period of time! The current national income cannot support a large-scale tourism industry; and even those who have the money to travel, most of them choose BJ, Shanghai, etc Big cities, places like the Little Three Gorges haven’t even repaired the roads, so why talk about tourism development?”

In 1991, it was rated as "Forty Best Tourist Attractions in China", in November 2004, it was rated as "National AAAA-level Tourist Attraction", and in May 11, it was rated as "National AAAAA-level Tourist Attraction". Tourist attractions".

But there are large-scale tourists going to visit, and you have to wait until the arrival of the new century. If you start thinking about the small Three Gorges tourism project now, isn’t that throwing money into the water?

"The project is indeed a good project, but it's too early! It's not too late to start in 20 years! Moreover, to be honest, judging from the situation of the visit just now, I think Lao Mouzi is not a person who can do things with peace of mind. This project I don't think there will be any more to come." Li Lei was well aware of Lao Mouzi's character.

"Yes, people's energy is limited. If you want to do things well, you won't create so many companies at once. This is not only shipbuilding, but also bamboo, and tourism. Our brothers can only do farms. He's so busy hitting his heels, how can he take care of it alone!" Brother Chao didn't have a good impression of him.

In the evening, when the Sino-German business management night school started, the two of them came again. The old Mouzi shocked everyone when he said, "I run this night school, just like the teacher comrades who ran a farmer seminar in Guangzhou. The teacher was a In order to cultivate revolutionaries, I want everyone to become business tycoons and entrepreneurs"

I have to admit that there is no one who can leave a reputation in history. Lao Mouzi's eloquence is indeed extraordinary. He swayed freely on the stage and quickly mobilized the enthusiasm of the audience. , I was very excited, as if after listening to his class, I could make a fortune immediately.

Lao Mouzi spoke for two hours in one breath, and the whole process was extremely smooth. With this ability alone, if you put him 20 years later, he may not be able to become a figure like Jia Yueting.

As soon as the class was over, a lot of people gathered around him, some asked him for advice, and some wanted to spend money to invest. The atmosphere at the scene was extremely lively.

Of course, these can only fool ordinary people. Li Lei and Liu Yonghao were unmoved. They only thought that this population was really good, but it seemed unreliable when doing things.

After coming out, Liu Yonghao was a little disappointed, "Hey, when I first heard about this person, I thought he was very powerful. Now that I see it, I don't really want to deal with him."

"If you think about the good, such people can also drive many people to join the business world. From this point of view, it is also a good thing." Li Lei thinks it is normal. Among them, Li Qizhong.

In the future, the myth of Lao Mouzi has indeed attracted many people into the sea. As for his assistants, there have been several business leaders, such as Pan Shiyi, Feng Lun, and Wang Gongquan.

It's just that I don't know if it's because I've been with Lao Mouzi for a long time, or because things of a kind gather together and people are divided into groups. These people don't like to do things down-to-earth, which caused a lot of trouble.

Being famous is worse than meeting each other. This trip to Wanxian disappointed Liu Yonghao. He took the train back to Chongqing that night, and then continued to take Li Lei and the others to run through channels.

After a few days of busy work, he won many orders and rented a place to open a Chongqing office. Li Lei left Li Xinwang and Wang Feng in charge of this work, and brought the breeding pigs home.

When they arrived at Zhongzhou Railway Station, Li Xin'an and He Zhanhai were already waiting outside with their cars. Everyone worked together to carry the breeding pigs and chickens purchased in Chongqing into the car and transport them to the breeding base in Heyang.

"Rongchang pigs, Neijiang pigs, Chenghua pigs, Liangping red-feathered roosters, Emei black chickens, and Nanchuan black chickens. These are all good breeds!" He Zhanhai started looking through the list of breeds in the car.

"In the future, there will only be more and more varieties. If there are not enough varieties, how can we breed better varieties than foreign ones?" Whether it is animal breeding or plant breeding, there must be sufficient variety reserves first. Without this, he said Everything else is nonsense.

"By the way, I have some good news for you. I showed Professor Shu the paper you wrote earlier on breeding techniques of Hy-Line layer hens. Professor Shu spoke highly of it and has already submitted it to the "Chinese Journal of Animal Husbandry" for you. I guess you will be able to see the samples soon!" Li Lei said with a smile.

He knew He Zhanhai's character well. When He Zhanhai was fired, the most regrettable thing was not that he lost the opportunity to assign work, but that he couldn't continue to do research.

When Li Lei went to his house to find him, he was still studying and preparing to take the college entrance examination again. Li Lei promised a high salary but did not convince him until Li Lei told him that he would provide him with advanced equipment and sufficient funds Research, He Zhanhai agreed.

After arriving in Heyang, He Zhanhai devoted himself to studying the characteristics of Hailan laying hens, and wrote this article in a few months.

When Li Lei planned to set up a breeding farm, Lei Yi and others still hesitated, because the breeding farm and feed factory had already seen benefits, and bonuses would definitely be indispensable; while breeding is a long-term job, it might be difficult to go to the farm. I have been there for ten or eight years and have not seen any results.

He Zhanhai didn't hesitate at all, he was the first to sign up, and he did everything from the design and construction of the breeding base to the collection and purchase of fine varieties, so that he could start researching early.

Li Lei admired his approach very much, so he sought some benefits for him. For a researcher, there is nothing more gratifying than seeing his paper published.

"Really? Thank you very much, Professor Shu, and thank you boss for giving me this opportunity!" Sure enough, He Zhanhai is more excited now than when he received the bonus.

"As soon as this paper is published, you will gain a reputation in the animal husbandry industry. If you want to publish a paper in the future, you can submit it directly by yourself, but you must show it to me before submitting it. Some things must be kept confidential!" Li Lei reminded Dao, the results of his hard research can't all be made public.

"Of course, if you hadn't given me the direction for the last thesis, I wouldn't have written it so quickly." This is also the practice of various research institutions. He Zhanhai has known it for a long time, and Li Lei's academic attainments are obviously higher than his. The next research will also rely on his guidance, so naturally he fully agrees.

"When I went to pick you up, I said that one day you guys will be able to get a reissued degree certificate from the school. If there are no accidents, you should be the fastest. Wait for this paper to be issued. In time, maybe the school will contact you!"

"Chinese Journal of Animal Husbandry" has a relatively high status in the field of animal husbandry, and it is a core journal. If a student from an agricultural college can publish an article during school, it will be guaranteed for research; if it is given to a lecturer, it is enough to be promoted to a teaching assistant.

"Hey, none of my students in the same class can publish articles in such an important magazine!" He Zhanhai's face was full of pride.

"It's nothing. The core of the aquaculture industry lies in breeding. If you can make achievements in the field of breeding, then some schools will rush to hire you as a professor!" Father Yuan Longping, watermelon grandma Wu Mingzhu, many of them were selected because of breeding.

In the pig industry, there are similar figures, that is, Xiong Yuan, a famous expert in animal genetics and pig breeding in my country, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and professor of Huazhong Agricultural University.

Mr. Xiong studied at Huazhong Agricultural College in the 50s and stayed on as a teacher after graduation. With his efforts, he built China's first breeding pig testing center—China Wuhan Breeding Pig Testing Center.

In 1986, Xiong Yuanzhu and his research collective bred China's first new breed of pig female parent with high lean meat rate - Hubei White Pig and its strain won the HUB Provincial Science and Technology Progress Special Prize.

In 1988, Xiong Yuan and his colleagues used "Hubei White Pig" as the female parent to crossbreed the lean commercial pig "Duhu Pig", which won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 1988.

"It's enough to give me a replacement honorary degree, the professor dare not think about it!" He Zhanhai couldn't help imagining the scene described by Li Lei, and laughed again.

The truck arrived at Erdaowan Village and turned into the mountain. The breeding base was stricter than the breeding farm in terms of epidemic prevention and confidentiality, so it was chosen in the deep mountain; Sunner Group will do the same when it secretly breeds white-feathered chickens in the future. .

The breeding base is currently divided into two places, one for chicken breeding and the other for pig breeding. Breeding of different species cannot be placed in one place, otherwise cross-infection will occur.

First put Liangping Red Feather Rooster, Emei Black Chicken, Nanchuan Black Chicken and other breeders to the breeder breeding base a little outside, and then continue to move forward, bypassing a mountain, to the pig breeding base.

At present, basic facilities such as breeding gestation house, farrowing house, nursery house, and performance testing house have been built here, and many advanced instruments have been imported from abroad. In terms of hardware configuration, it is definitely better than that of Zhongyuan Agricultural College, in terms of talents. There are still shortcomings.

The pigs were unloaded, sterilized first, and then transported inside to be fed separately. The breeding experiment could only be carried out after it was confirmed that there was no problem.

Li Lei first checked the situation of the breeding base, corrected a few minor mistakes, and then talked about the real thing with He Zhanhai—the choice of breeding technology.

There are three main types of pig breeding systems in the field of international pig farming: one is the joint breeding system of small companies represented by the National Breeding Swine Registration Center (NSR) in the United States and the Genetic Improvement Center (CCSI) in Canada.

The second is the national breeding system represented by the BundesHybrid Zucht Programm (BHZP) in Germany, Topigs-Norsvin in the Netherlands and Norway, Nucleus in France, and DanBred in Denmark.

The third is professional breeding companies represented by Hypor and Genetiporc in Canada, Newsham Choice Genetics (NCG) in the United States, and Piercy (PIC) in the United Kingdom.

Li Lei must choose the last path. In the future, he may cooperate with other institutions and adopt a strategy of several systems in parallel.

In terms of breeding technology, before the [-]th century, the selection of foreign breeding pigs was mainly judged by body shape and appearance; since the [-]th century, some breeding experts began to use production data for selection.

Around 1950, a simple selection index was established through phenotypic data (ie production performance and appearance data) for breeding.

This kind of technology is used in China now, but up to now, this kind of technology has become somewhat backward, and the simple selection index cannot accurately guide the breeding work.

"Now Canada has begun to try to use a new technology. This technology is called BLUP for short. The translation is Best Linear Unbiased Prediction, a method of estimating the breeding value of pigs using a linear algebraic model; breeding pigs, selecting The accuracy is improved, the lean meat rate is measured by the backfat thickness of the pig, and the growth rate is measured by the age at 100kg body weight."

"Using this method can greatly improve the efficiency of breeding, especially the improvement speed of reproductive performance is greatly improved, and the speed of breeding progress is significantly improved."

In fact, there are still many ways to explore the technical route of breeding pigs. Researchers from different institutions have given different solutions, and there is no dispute!
The advantage of the traveler lies in this. Li Lei knows very well that the BLUR technical route is the ultimate winner, which helps him eliminate countless wrong options, which is equivalent to knowing the answer in advance, and then reversing the problem-solving process, then Much easier.

He not only knows the current answer, but also the future answer. Based on the accumulation of years of conventional BLUP genetic evaluation data, he can quickly adapt to high-throughput molecular methods and apply genome-wide selection technology to greatly improve the accuracy of selection.

Then there are gene editing, big data, and molecular breeding. For at least 30 years in the future, Li Lei's breeding base will not have to worry about going in the wrong direction.

He Zhanhai began to have a headache after listening to Li Lei explain the BLUR technology in detail, "I have studied linear algebra, but my grades are average. It is a bit difficult to use this technology proficiently!"

"It doesn't matter, Canada has just begun to try this technology. If we can start this way, we are already ahead of most of the competitors in the world! You learn and try first, and I will also find suitable talents as soon as possible. "Li Lei couldn't believe it. There are so many universities in Zhongzhou, but there is no expelled student who is proficient in linear algebra.

Even if you can’t find it in Zhongzhou, you can still ask Brother Chao to help you. Go to Sichuan University and Chengdu Electronics to find it. You can go to Xi’an Jiaotong University and Western Polytechnic University to find it yourself. These schools have excellent science and engineering, and there must be no shortage of talents in this field.

More importantly, the core of this technology is the linear algebra model. These models are still the secrets of Canadian institutions, but in later generations, many models have been eliminated and made public. Li Lei clearly remembers many of them. Digital models can be used directly.

Using a digital model is much easier than developing a digital model by yourself. In later generations, these calculations are all handed over to computers, and breeding technicians can directly obtain answers by inputting data into computers.

I don't know if the current computer technology can do this. If it is possible, I will ask someone to help me compile a software.

(End of this chapter)