African Nationhood

"Minister Xia Yi, please tell me."

Xia Yi stood up after hearing this, walked slowly to the podium, and opened the folder in her hand.

Xia Yi nodded to Chairman Shi and Vice Premier Shi Jinyong as usual, and then opened the folder she carried with her.

"The development of our department in the past few years can be said to be steady and good. Using the precise epidemic prevention theory we have summarized before, we can basically vaccinate against common diseases such as smallpox, diphtheria, yellow fever and typhus. High coverage rate and saving a lot of medical resources.

At the last State Council meeting, our department planned to shift the focus of infectious disease prevention and control to tuberculosis and polio.

After being reminded by the Chairman, we changed the prevention and control targets to ascariasis and poliomyelitis.

Moreover, according to the Chairman’s reminder, before the European War, we found evergreen artemisia plants in cold weather from the Russian Arctic Circle, including their seeds and rhizomes, and made complete specimens of the plants.

After we brought back the seeds of these plants, we first cultivated them with the assistance of the agricultural department.

After searching all over our land in South China, we finally found a planting area for this plant in the mountains of Basutoland (now Lesotho) in the South Orange region. After several years of cultivation, we have now successfully cultivated this Asteraceae plant.

We have found out that this plant likes a cool, dry climate and should be cultivated in loose, fertile, high-dry sandy soil with good drainage.

The general propagation methods are seed propagation and seedling transplanting. "

(Lesotho is located in the Drakensberg Mountains. This mountain range is high in altitude, has frost and snow every winter, and has low temperatures all year round, which is suitable for growing artemisia.)
"We have explored how to use this plant to treat ascariasis. First, we worked with professors of traditional Chinese medicine at Nanhua Medical College to tackle the problem. After some deliberation, we worked together to come up with a prescription to treat ascariasis.

Take 5 to 6 qian of Artemisia roundworm, grind it into powder, add 1 tael of white wine, soak it overnight, remove the residue and take the clear liquid.

Evaporate the alcohol over water, take it once on an empty stomach in the morning, and drink four qian of Glauber's salt after 2 o'clock. Reduce the dosage for children.

The medicine made by this brewing method is very effective in killing roundworms, but it cannot kill roundworms and eggs very well. It can only allow the roundworms to be excreted from the patient's body.

However, it can be considered as achieving the goal by expelling the roundworms from the human body.

Next, we will conduct in-depth research on the leaching solution of Artemisia fennel. Through our research, we found that there are some compounds in this leaching solution.

This substance can stimulate the ganglia of the roundworm, causing the roundworm's muscles to contract spasmodically, making it unable to attach to the intestines and then be excreted from the body.

We then continued to study this type of substance and found that it was soluble in chloroform, benzene and ethanol.

This is also the reason why we were able to use wine to extract this substance before. After this experiment, we successfully extracted this substance. Because this substance can target roundworms and is an organic compound with an aromatic odor, we named it 'Ascaridine tie' (α-山道年).

After successfully extracting this substance, the next step is how to plant it in large quantities to obtain as much extract as possible.

First of all, it is impossible to plant a large amount of it here in the mainland. After all, the climate here is not suitable, so there are only two administrative offices, Newfoundland and Sakhalin.

At present, we have arranged for two major administrative offices to help arrange planting areas, and we have also implemented confidentiality regulations for this type of plants.

Once the two major administrative offices are successfully planted in large quantities, we will build extraction plants in the two major administrative offices and arrange pharmaceutical factories at the same time.

When this type of drug is successfully produced, it will become a hit drug. "

Anti-roundworm drugs can indeed gain a larger market. After all, ascariasis affects not only young children but also adults.

"Well, not bad, you did a good job. Do you have any ideas for the finished product of this drug?"

Chairman Shi's question made Xia Yi stunned for a moment.

"Oh, we haven't thought about this problem yet."

Chairman Shi became interested, "Because it is mainly aimed at young children, why not try to make the finished medicine into colorful candy shapes, so that young children will like it when they see it and eat it.

If it were a pure medicine, I'm afraid it wouldn't be easy to take in. After all, this medicine is a bit bitter. "

I have to say that the idea provided by Chairman Shi is indeed good. Xia Yi smiled and nodded, "Okay, Chairman, we will make the finished medicine according to your idea."

Xia Yi thought for a while, put the anise aside, looked at the report in the folder, and continued to speak.

“When it comes to the polio vaccine, we haven’t made an effective vaccine yet.

Our previous research has been exploring how to isolate active pathogens. Later we found a paper published in a medical journal by Austrian doctors Landsteiner and Popper on how to isolate poliovirus.

Using their method, it took us nearly a year to successfully isolate the active pathogen from the child's stool.

Although we have active pathogens, we have not found an ideal virus inactivation and attenuation treatment solution, and we need to continue to work on the problem in the future. "

When Xia Yi said this, her voice became much lower. It could be seen that their department had spent a lot of effort on this research, but the delay in success made them feel a little depressed.

Shi Jintang really can't help much in this regard.

Jonas Salk of the original United States spent nine years developing the first-generation vaccine in 9.

Then Albert Sabin developed an oral vaccine in 1959, which was inoculated to all people in Red Goose. It was later promoted around the world, and later sugar pill vaccines appeared in large Eastern countries.

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"Well, don't be discouraged. There will always be success."

Xia Yi nodded, "Yes, Chairman."

“According to our department’s monitoring, we found that our newborn birth rate has reached 4.44%, and our country’s average age is 18.9 years old.
And the population mortality rate has also dropped to 1.04%.

Our net population growth rate has reached 3.3%. Based on this birth rate, if we stop immigration now, the number of our citizens will double in 23 years.

Our population is growing very rapidly, and as immigrants enter South China in large numbers, our population will grow faster and faster.

I'm worried that one day there will be a population explosion. Chairman, we must be mentally prepared.

The Far East conducted a census at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The population counted at that time was 3.3 million. Over the years, the number of people we have introduced from the Far East has been increasing, but their total domestic population has basically not changed much. On the contrary, it has continued to grow. trend. "

(The population at the end of the Qing Dynasty was 3.3 million. By the end of the Beiyang Government, the domestic population had reached about 4.5 million. During the Chang Kaishen period, the domestic population officially exceeded 5 million. During the founding of the People's Republic of China, the domestic population was about 5.5 million.)
“With a large population base, it is normal for the population growth rate to increase. We in Nanhua are now in a period of rapid growth.

Our average age is young, which shows that our career is young and there is still a lot of room for growth.

Today's South China is more like the situation in the United States in the early 19th century. In 1800, the birth rate in the United States was 5.5%.

But as time goes by, their birth rate dropped to 1860% in 4.1, and now, the birth rate in the United States has dropped to 3.1%.

We can see from the gradual decrease in the birth rate in the United States that as people's living standards improve, people's desire to have children will decrease.

Judging from the population growth in the Far East, the more difficult the living conditions, the higher people's fertility level.

Minister Xia, can you see the difference? "

Hearing Chairman Shi's question, Xia Yi thought for a while and quickly came up with an answer.

"As material conditions improve, people's energy will be dispersed and they will not focus on raising children."

Shi Jintang nodded, "Yes, people with better living conditions will have more scattered energy.

They can travel, engage in literary and artistic activities and even participate in scientific creations.

In areas with low material conditions, people have no other pursuits except having enough to eat. In the Far East, because of low material conditions, there is no other pastime at night, and people can only focus on making humans. "

After saying this, all the women present bowed their heads in embarrassment.

Shi Jintang looked embarrassed when he saw Xia Yi lowering her head, so he drove into the car unconsciously.

In order to relieve the embarrassment, he coughed a few times and then said to Xia Yi: "Mr. Xia, please continue talking."

Xia Yi blushed and spoke the unfinished words in one breath.

“At this stage, the domestic birth rate, neonatal mortality rate and maternal mortality rate are basically maintained near the standard line required by the cabinet.

My speech is over. "(End of chapter)