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"Lycopene is the main pigment of ripe tomatoes, and it is also a kind of carotene. It can be used as a natural pigment to color food, and it also has the functions of anti-oxidation, reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases, reducing genetic damage, and inhibiting the development of tumors. , can be used to produce health care products." Li Lei explained.

In fact, the role of lycopene is far more than that. It can also be used to color lipsticks. 70% of the red pigments used in luxury lipsticks around the world come from XJ, including international brands such as Chanel and Dior, Greece, Italy, France, etc. China, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United States also produce tomatoes, but the lycopene content in tomatoes from these countries is only 62 mg, far less than the [-] mg of XJ.

"Lycopene mainly exists in tomato peels. At that time, we can use the peeled peels during the production of tomato paste to extract lycopene and conduct medicinal research and development, thereby forming an industrial chain." Since then, the utilization rate of tomatoes has become It can increase the income of enterprises and local people at the same time.

"Oh, the information we can access in remote areas is really too little. It is a great experience to chat with the two bosses today! Director Li wants to provide more job opportunities for the people of Yanqi, and we naturally welcome it!" The local leaders thought about it and felt that this must be a good thing, so they agreed.

Li Lei and Ning Hao stayed in Yanqi for a few more days, finalized the site of the tomato paste factory and the lycopene factory, and signed tomato purchase contracts with several townships and group farms. The farmers have planted tomatoes, and the local government also has a very important cooperating work to do. First, it is to help the tomato planting land to build water conservancy projects to increase the production capacity here. Second, it has to send agricultural technicians to follow experts from the Academy of Agricultural Reclamation Sciences and Huinong, COFCO Technicians learn more advanced tomato planting techniques, and then teach these techniques to local farmers, leading them to adopt more advanced planting techniques to grow tomatoes.

In addition, Huinong also tested the local soil in Yanqi, and then produced tomato-specific fertilizers that are more suitable for use here based on the test results, and then shipped them to Yanqi for credit to tomato growers. Tomato growers can use them first, and wait for the tomatoes to sell. Go out and pay that again.

For this reason, Li Lei deliberately found a suitable place in XJ to build a new fertilizer factory. Fertilizer is a bulk material, and the freight has a great impact on the profit margin. If the factory is built in Kouli and then shipped over, the price of fertilizer will fall into the hands of the growers. It is too high; and building a fertilizer plant here will also help exports to the five Central Asian countries. When the time comes, it will be used for its own farm in Kazakhstan, and other countries will follow suit.

At the same time, Li Lei will also cooperate with Director Chen Xuegeng, and the Agricultural Machinery Institute and Shifeng Factory will jointly develop tomato-specific agricultural machinery. Whether it is a group farm or ordinary local people, their per capita arable land area is more than ten or twenty mu. , It is difficult to take care of it by manpower alone, and it is much more convenient to have a machine.

"In fact, Yanqi can develop far more than the tomato industry. The soil here is also very suitable for growing grapes and peppers. This time, the time is relatively tight, and it is the first time to cooperate. Let's do a good job in the tomato business first, and wait for future traffic." It's more convenient, and when our cooperation has achieved initial results, let's think about peppers and grapes!" Before leaving, Li Lei said to the local leaders.

In the future, Yanqi is famous for its "three reds" industry. The "three reds" are pepper, tomato and wine. Tomatoes can be used to make tomato sauce and lycopene, and peppers can be used to produce hot pot base, chili sauce, chili powder, Capsicum, grapes can be used to make wine and raisins.

At that time, Yanqi had already realized mechanized production, and a few people could complete the planting of pepper seedlings on tens of thousands of acres of land in one day. This was a situation that farmers in the inland could hardly imagine, and the people of Yanqi also relied on the "three reds" industry to get rid of poverty early and become rich. , lived a well-off life.

"Yes, although our Yanqi grapes are not as famous as TLF, but the West Gobi is formed by the alluvial of the Huola Mountains, with unique topography and soil quality, which is very suitable for planting high-quality wine grapes. Unfortunately, no one has come to invest !” The local leaders are also quite regretful, but now that COFCO and Huinong are here, they see hope again.

"We, COFCO, have some experience in wine, and we will arrange people to come and have a look!" Ning Hao said. COFCO and Huinong have both cooperated and competed. In the edible oil, dairy industry and now the tomato paste project, The two companies have cooperated closely, but in other fields, there is some competition between the two sides. Specifically in the field of red wine, Ning Hao feels that COFCO has such a well-known brand as Great Wall, and it seems that there is no need to cooperate with Huinong, and they can do it themselves. Take the grape resources in Yanqi.

Li Lei knew what he was thinking, but he was not in a hurry, because right now Huinong is really not involved in the wine industry. Apart from funds, there is nothing that can attract COFCO to cooperate, but this is only for now. Actually, Huinong has already started research in this area.

Wine is not as simple as everyone imagines. As long as there are grapes, good wine can be made. In addition to grapes suitable for winemaking, special yeasts are also needed. It is difficult and the cycle is long, so the domestic wine industry has long relied solely on imported wine yeast, whether it is Great Wall or Changyu.

In the future, this technology was successfully broken through by Professor Liu Yanlin, a doctoral supervisor of the Wine School of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, director of the National Grape Industry Technology System Construction Processing and Storage Research Office, and an expert in microbial fermentation. When Professor Liu just graduated from a master's degree a few years ago, He signed a cooperation agreement with Huinong, and was sent by Huinong to the Department of Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis to study for a doctorate.

After returning to China, he began to cooperate with Huinong to develop local wine yeast. With the support of Huinong, Professor Liu collected, excavated, identified and optimized the local yeast resources, and established germplasm resources of more than [-] local wine yeasts. library, and then search for a series of native yeasts with outstanding typical characteristics, excellent comprehensive properties, and subdivided functions, in order to finally realize commercial application.

In the original history, it took Professor Liu 22 years of painstaking efforts to find two strains of CECA and CEC, which have the characteristics of strong tolerance, strong fermentation power, and strong aroma expression. Local excellent wine yeasts can achieve 30% domestic production of imported wine yeasts. After large-scale industrial application, these two strains of wine yeast can not only supply local wine factories, but also export to traditional European wine producing countries.

Now with the help of Li Lei, she has been provided with more abundant funds, more advanced equipment, and more professional software. I believe this time can be brought forward. By then, COFCO will have to ask Huinong to provide them with wine yeast.

Moreover, Huinong's layout in the wine field is far more than this. The cooperation with the Wine School of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University covers various aspects such as wine yeast, brewing, fermentation, storage, etc., and some good results have been achieved so far. They continue to import, but they can already produce good wines. Now Huinong has established wineries in provinces rich in grapes, such as Tiannan and Ningxia. COFCO will definitely be surprised when its own wines are on the market.

This time, both Li Lei and Ning Hao brought a professional team. They can leave after finalizing the project. He was stopped by the leaders of surrounding counties and cities.

The relatively developed provinces in the inland economy have to fight for a big investor, let alone these remote areas with backward economy?It is rare for a big investor to come to this place every year, how could he let it go now?So under their warm invitation, Li Lei and Ning Hao went to visit Bosten Lake again, tasted the delicious lake fish, thanked them for their warm hospitality, and made a promise that once Yanqi's tomato paste factory runs smoothly, they will cooperate with them. They cooperated to expand the tomato planting area, and the land in several surrounding places is also suitable for tomato planting, and then they left BYGL state and returned to Urumqi.

After returning, Ning Hao took the plane all the way back to the capital eastward, and Li Lei went against him all the way westward to Kazakhstan. Two years ago, Nazarbayev extended his presidential term through a referendum. In 2000, his position was further stabilized, but he felt that this was not enough, so he began to plan to move the capital from Almaty, the apple city, to Akmola, a small northern city, and renamed it Astana - Kazakhstan The meaning of "capital" in Chinese.

Such a big move of the capital must cost money, and it will cost a lot of money. It happened that Li Lei made a fortune in the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, so he came to send money to Nazarbayev. After the plane landed, Jiang Shuangcheng directly took The car pulled up to the track to meet him, and he was the guest of honor in Kazakhstan now, and he was fully entitled to do so.

"Hey, I'm a little fatter than the last time we met. It seems that these days are going well!" After getting off the plane, Li Lei looked it up and said, "I met Xiao Min when I went to the capital last time, little girl look You are more energetic, now you are mainly focusing on the general direction, there is no need to stay in Kazakhstan often, if you have time, go back and spend more time with your family."

"Now I go back every month. Sometimes I will take her to live for a while when she is on vacation. Last time I took Xiao Min to Mayo. The doctor said that she is in good condition and the rejection reaction is very slight. In the future, she will marry and have children. Children are fine!" Jiang Shuangcheng smiled from the bottom of his heart. Before he met Li Lei, he didn't dare to think about it, but now he can bear the cost of his daughter's trip to Mayo by himself, and even changed the luxury house in the Asian Games Village , transferred his daughter to a better school, and now he hopes that his daughter will grow up early and get married and have grandchildren.

"Don't be sloppy, remember the doctor's advice, and go to Mayo for a review every year. In addition, you can pay more attention to the latest scientific research results to see if there is any better solution!" Li Lei patted him on the shoulder, and the two They got into the car together, which was a Rolls-Royce, and then drove towards the presidential palace surrounded by front and rear guards.

"Mr. President arranged it, and Mr. Aliyev also said that he would pick you up in person, but I refused!" Jiang Shuangcheng said to Li Lei after raising the soundproof board.

"It's right to do this. Our position in Kazakhstan is relatively detached. Kazakhstan's agriculture depends on us a lot. No matter who will be in power in the future, they will have to rely on us, so there is no need to get involved in their internal struggles, and I think Mr. Zarbayev is in very good health, even if he works for another 20 years, he will be fine!" Li Lei nodded, but he knew how worrying Nazarbayev and his sons-in-law were, what a pity their plan In the end, it all came to nothing. Nazarbayev was too energy-consuming.

"By the way, how is Tokayev doing now? I heard that he is very trusted?" Li Lei asked pretending not to know, "After all, you have a teacher-student relationship with him here, and you can usually walk around, but it's best Only talk about personal friendship, nothing else!"

"Occasionally I will still contact, and I didn't hide it from Mr. President. Mr. President is also very happy to see me do this! He trusts Tokayev very much. Once chatting privately, Mr. President said that he is considering making him Prime Minister , I reckon this is for me to spread the word!" Jiang Shuangcheng reported truthfully.

When he arrived at the Presidential Palace, Li Lei was warmly received. At the banquet, Li Lei offered gifts and donated a large sum of money to Nazarbayev’s plan to move the capital. Nazarbayev was very happy and gave Huinong designated a large tract of arable land.

The reason for doing this is firstly to thank Li Lei for his donation, and secondly, Huinong has done a very good job at the Ivolga Farm. The grain yield per mu far exceeds that of other places in Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev is well aware of the importance of grain , so instead of giving the land to other people, it is better to give it to Li Lei, at least he can grow more food, and Kazakhstan's land policy has changed in recent years, so there are many fewer obstacles in doing so.

"Now Kazakhstan's wheat can be exported in large quantities, but from a commercial point of view, it is not a good thing to have a single product, so I plan to try to grow soybeans on these lands. Now the Chinese team's demand for soybeans is increasing. In the future It will definitely bring good benefits to Kazakhstan!" Li Lei said his plan.

"You are an old friend of ours in Kazakhstan and an expert in the field of agriculture, so as long as you think it is suitable, then do it!" Nazarbayev agreed to Li Lei's plan.

"Thank you very much!" Li Lei raised his wine glass. He is now planning for a rainy day and making two preparations at the same time. On the one hand, he is speeding up the progress of breeding research in China, and on the other hand, he is planting soybeans in Kazakhstan. During the war, you can make the war a little more exciting.