Chongqing Specialty Legend (107) | This bowl of chicken soup that you have drunk since childhood was praised by Emperor Guangxu.

Chongqing Qiuer Restaurant is famous for its chicken soup. Many friends who love chicken soup like their "stewed chicken soup" and "stewed chicken soup with cuttlefish". I don’t know if you have noticed, but the chicken soup in Qiuer Restaurant is different from other chicken soups in Chongqing, and it is even more different from all kinds of chicken dishes which are famous for their popularity and heavy taste. Yes, the chicken soup in Qiuer Pavilion is now in the southwest. However, tracing back to the source, this bowl of chicken soup, which has won many times as a "famous snack" in Chongqing, is actually delicious from the north, with royal blood flowing on its body.

The story begins more than a hundred years ago.

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At present, the signboard of Qiuer Pavilion reads "1949 Secret Chicken Soup" in black and white, but the secret history of this bowl of chicken soup is even earlier.

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During the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, Li Laosan, a native of Baxian County, Chongqing, was a good cook. In his early years, he was elected as a chef in the imperial dining room of Beijing Palace, and the dishes he made were all kinds of dishes, which was deeply appreciated by Emperor Guangxu. In particular, the chicken soup stewed by the "Imperial Copper Furnace Stewing Chicken Method" was more popular with Emperor Guangxu.

After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Emperor Guangxu was placed under house arrest in Yingtai. Li Laosan lost his main client and could only work as a cook in the ordinary kitchen in the palace, with no future. When Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi fled the capital with Emperor Guangxu and a group of ministers, not to mention those other people in the palace. Li Laosan was forced to leave the palace and make a living by himself. However, he has no relatives and friends in Beijing, and he has no business capital. He can’t display his good cooking skills, so he has to live in a small restaurant run by Han people in the south of the city to help him do odd jobs and make ends meet.

One day, a military attache named Hande said came to the small restaurant. This man, whose ancestral home is Yidu, Hubei Province, was admitted to the Governor’s Office as a bodyguard when Zhang Zhidong was governor of Huguang. Because of his loyalty and outstanding martial arts, he won Zhang’s trust and was employed for a long time. Zhang Zhidong was promoted to minister of military affairs and took office in Beijing. Hande said that he would accompany him.

Hand said that he happened to eat in this small restaurant that day and chatted with Li Laosan. He lamented that he had a good cooking skill, so why not open his own shop? Knowing Li Laosan’s difficulties, Hande recommended it to Zhang Zhidong to make Li Laosan a full-time chef in the Military Minister’s Office. Li Laosan re-displayed the craftsmanship in the Qing Palace, and Zhang Zhidong ate three meals a day and kept it in the government with a high salary.

Shortly after Zhang Zhidong’s death, the Revolution of 1911 broke out and Emperor Xuantong abdicated. The former military minister’s office was dissolved, and the guard Hande said that both Li Laosan and the chef were repatriated to their original places. Hande said that he would return to Hubei to continue to be a soldier in the new army, while Li Laosan returned to his hometown of Ba County. When leaving, in order to thank Hande for his help, Li Laosan passed on the secret of "Stewing Chicken in Imperial Copper Furnace" in Qing Palace. The bronze stove that was brought out of the palace and engraved with the words "Guangxu Imperial Chef" was also presented. Li Laosan later died of illness in his hometown of Ba County.

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Hande called Ben a samurai and served in the army for a long time. At first, he didn’t have the idea of opening a restaurant. It’s just that he also likes cooking and moves around with the army. As long as the environment is stable and his family is reunited, he always cleans up the imperial copper stove and cooks a chicken to comfort himself and his family.

Twenty years later, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, and Hande said that he had participated in the front-line anti-Japanese war with the army and had experienced the test of bullets and was promoted to major general brigade commander. Later, the 10th National Army he served suffered heavy casualties and was scattered in Henan. Hande said that he retired to Chongqing with the commander of the army. The 10th Army is a local miscellaneous army, which has always been excluded by the Huangpu clique. After the army broke up, it was quickly revoked by the Military Commission, and the commander was transferred to other posts, while the rest of the officers were discharged. Hande, who lost his military post, said he had to find a job for himself. He used his savings for many years to open a small restaurant named "Qiu San Guan" in the Xinsheng Market in Chongqing (now the location of Jie Fangbei Meimei Times Department Store).

Many people don’t understand the name of this restaurant and ask about its origin. Hande said that he laughed at himself: "I was born as a soldier, and I was a soldier." Now that I am not a soldier, there are three left after Qiu Ba retired, so I am called Qiu San. "

The main recipes of Qiusan Pavilion are stewed chicken soup and noodle soup. He displayed the bronze stove of "Guangxu Imperial Chef" presented by Li Laosan in the store, and the gold plaque of "Qing Palace Imperial Chef" hung in the main hall was particularly eye-catching. At the beginning of his business, he personally took charge, from material selection to stew. In the production, he applied the secrets taught by Li Laosan to practice and strived for perfection.

Hande said that strict rules should be followed. One is strict selection of materials, and domestic chickens with a growth period of not less than 9 months must be used. Secondly, it is carefully processed. Killing the chicken can’t choke blood, and depilation can’t hurt the skin. First, soak the chicken in cold water to remove fishy smell, gradually heat it, remove the blood bubbles, and then rinse it. The third is to ensure the original flavor, stew 10-15 chickens in a large pot, add Li Laosan’s secret ingredient, and never add water halfway. Fourth, the heat is strict. Boil it with a big fire, and then simmer it slowly with a small fire (in the past, alcohol was used as fuel and put it in a copper furnace to control the firepower), which usually takes four hours. The fifth is rationing, which is sold in the morning at night and in the afternoon at morning. In order to ensure the quality, each chicken is only sold in 4 portions, with two legs and two wings and a chest. The sixth is to pay attention to the beauty of food, with large celadon bowls, soup filled with 80%, plump and fresh, high quality and mellow taste.

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According to the records, the store is listed in the store every day, and it is clearly stated: "Today, there are 40 stewed chicken soup, each of which is priced at one yuan and fifty cents; 80 portions of stewed chicken noodles, each priced at 50 cents; 80 portions of sea cucumber chicken soup noodles, 35 cents each, while stock lasts. " No matter how good the business is, it will not increase the supply. Such a price was high at that time, but diners rushed to buy it, and even dignitaries sent servants to the store to serve soup. Usually it will be sold out in less than an hour in the morning and afternoon, and many people come here and leave disappointed.

After just four years of opening, Hande said that he earned a lot of money. On the eve of liberation, he transferred the store to his disciple and buddy and went back to his hometown in Yidu, Hubei Province to recuperate.

Minister for dinner.

Hande said that he had accepted six disciples and taught the secrets to disciples Wang Zhankui, Li Xudong, Zhao Shaowu and others. Since then, Li Xudong passed Luo Zhifang; Luo Zhifang also passed on Kang Changrong and Gong Zhiping.

Starting from Li Xudong, the Qiusan Pavilion was split, and the Qiuer Pavilion continued to this day.

It turns out that Hande said that after leaving Chongqing, his inheritors Wang Zhankui, Li Xudong, Zhao Shaowu and others disagreed and broke up. Wang Zhankui, the eldest disciple, became the boss of Qiusan Pavilion, while Li Xudong, Zhao Shaowu and others also set up their own stalls and shops, and opened a shop on Qingnian Road, which was named Qiuer Pavilion. Chongqing is commonly known as "Qiuer", which not only shows that its founders were originally wage earners, but also implies that its inheritance is related to Qiuer Pavilion.

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△ Ren Baige

In 1952, Qiuer Pavilion was moved to Wuyi Road for operation, facing the Qing Theater (later changed to Wuyi Cinema). At that time, Ren Baige, then the propaganda minister of Chongqing Municipal Committee, was very concerned about sorting out and modifying the traditional repertoire of Sichuan Opera. In his spare time, he often went to the "Chongqing Theater" to watch plays, and after reading it, he also held a live meeting to make comments and suggestions. When Bai Ge returned from a business trip, he went to the theatre without eating dinner. During the intermission, he went to the "Qiu Er Guan" to buy a bowl of noodles, saying that there was soup and noodles to solve his hunger and thirst.

Once renamed and closed down.

In 1956, it was a public-private partnership, and the Qiuer Pavilion was gradually nationalized. In 1972, Qiusan Pavilion was removed due to the adjustment of commercial outlets and merged into Qiuer Pavilion, and its main store was moved to Heping Road.

During the Cultural Revolution, the name of "Qiuer Pavilion" was once renamed as "brand-new food shop", but it was only restored in 1979, and the variety increased, including shredded chicken, spicy chicken pieces, chicken soup wonton soup, etc., and the business became more prosperous. At that time, Qiuer Pavilion had become the most well-known time-honored store, but during 1994-1998, the Wuyi Road area was built and Qiuer Pavilion was built. In 1999, it reopened in Xiaomi City and was also included in the state-owned enterprises. In the six years after 2005, 8 stores were opened in various districts of Chongqing.

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In 1958, 1964, 1980 and 1984, Qiuer Restaurant Stewed Chicken Soup was rated as "Special Flavor", "Famous Snack" and "Famous Snack" in Chongqing for four times. In 2001, it was rated as a famous restaurant in Chongqing. In September, 2000, it won the title of "Chinese Famous Snack", and in 2009, the secret stewed chicken soup in Qiuer Pavilion was officially listed in Chongqing’s "Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection List".

Persistence and innovation 

From the imperial delicacies of Emperor Guangxu, to the delicacies of ordinary people, from the "royal copper furnace chicken stew method" to the secret chicken stew soup, this bowl of chicken soup has passed through the temples and rivers and lakes for a hundred years. Nowadays, the citizens who eat the chicken soup in Qiuer Pavilion will be amazed. A bowl of chicken soup that looks very clear can eat a strong fragrance. As a municipal intangible cultural heritage, the stewed chicken soup in Qiuer Pavilion does have a secret. Now, the person who inherits this secret is Gong Zhiping, the fourth generation successor and chef of Qiuer Pavilion.

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Gong Zhiping, a national first-class cook (the highest technical level in the Chinese food industry), was awarded the Golden Chef Award by the China Cuisine Association in June 2014 for his contribution to the protection of the intangible cultural heritage of the chicken stew in Qiuer Restaurant.

What contribution did Gong Zhiping make?

Before cooking chicken stew, it was hung in a copper stove. He boldly put forward innovation. In order to solve the problem that copper will decompose some harmful substances when it meets high temperature, he changed the copper furnace into a casserole, and the secret process took more than 4 hours.

More importantly, after consulting with the great chefs and adding his own experience in Sichuan cuisine for more than 30 years, Gong Zhiping boldly changed the original stewed chicken into a cock-hen stew, which enhanced the fragrance of the cock and the freshness of the hen. His bold and unique approach has made the chicken soup boiled out highly recognized by fellow masters.

As a generation of catering master, Gong Zhiping said that there is no trick to stew chicken soup. The key is to stew it with your heart. For example, in the selection of materials, chickens that are a few months old will definitely not work, and chickens that are at least one year old will not be added with any food additives. Even salt is not advocated. Therefore, there is always a bottle of seasoning salt on the dining table of Qiuer Pavilion. Customers who need it can put it themselves. "With additives, chicken soup can become very white in two minutes, while the chicken soup in Qiuer Pavilion is clear and oily, but it tastes mellow and sticky." Gong Zhiping said that few restaurants are willing to simmer chicken soup for more than 4 hours.

At the same time, in order to make the chicken taste more delicious, he said, the chicken soup in Qiuer Restaurant is first boiled with a big fire, after removing the blood bubbles, then simmered with a small fire, and then the whole chicken is removed and simmered separately, so that the chicken tastes soft and won’t get old.

"If you keep stewing with a big fire, the chicken will taste very old; In order to save time, some restaurants fish up the chicken and pat it to make it soft. " Gong Zhiping said,If there is a secret to chicken stew, then the greatest secret is heart..

Information sources: chongqing morning post, Chongqing Political Consultative Conference Daily, Dayu.com, Baidu Encyclopedia, Public Comment Network, Baijiahao "Donglian Xiaole", etc.

High-quality service for the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and the all-round revitalization of rural areas "Start again"

CCTV News:The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the China Association for Science and Technology recently issued a notice to start the construction of the second batch of small science and technology institutes and clusters of small science and technology institutes, leading the reform of the education and training mode of professional degree graduates, and serving the modernization of agriculture and rural areas with high quality and the overall revitalization of rural areas. You can register now.

The mode of postgraduate training in small science and technology colleges refers to the long-term stationing of agricultural graduates in the front line of agricultural production, focusing on solving practical problems in agricultural and rural production practice, and cultivating agricultural high-level applied talents who know, love and promote agriculture.

The construction of the second batch of small science and technology institutes and clusters of small science and technology institutes focuses on "four expansions": from a single small science and technology institute to a cluster of small science and technology institutes; Cross-expanding from single agricultural discipline to multi-discipline; From the leadership of colleges and universities to the integration and expansion of "politics and Industry-University-Research"; Expand from domestic distribution to global distribution, and promote the development goal of large-scale, cluster, brand, characteristic and internationalization of small science and technology institutes.

The notice clearly stated that it is necessary to carry out the construction of small science and technology institutes in areas such as the main producing areas of national grain and important agricultural products, key assisting counties for national rural revitalization, pioneering areas for agricultural green development, key areas for agricultural resources and environmental protection, key ecological functional areas and important ecological protection and restoration areas such as black land, and actively serve national food security, rural industrial development, rural construction, rural governance and farmers’ income increase.

Including single and cluster objectives and tasks, each has its own emphasis.

It is understood that the construction types of the second batch of small science and technology institutes include single and cluster, and their goals and tasks are different. Let’s continue to understand.

Small agricultural science and technology institutes focus on the leading agricultural industry in the region, popularize advanced agricultural technology, focus on agriculture-related majors, and study the actual production problems in agricultural production or the whole industrial chain. Comprehensive science and technology small colleges focus on local industrial revitalization, talent revitalization, cultural revitalization, ecological revitalization, organizational revitalization and other aspects, encourage multi-category multi-disciplinary co-construction, and cooperate in research and solution of the "three rural issues" in the process of rural revitalization.

Science and technology small courtyard cluster is divided into regional science and technology small courtyard cluster and industrial science and technology small courtyard cluster, focusing on major issues of agricultural production or industrial development, establishing science and technology small courtyard cluster with leading colleges as the main body, and creating a comprehensive innovation platform for multi-disciplinary joint research and agricultural technology transformation and promotion. Focus on supporting the construction of science and technology small courtyard clusters in key rural revitalization counties, national agricultural green development pioneer areas and areas with weak agricultural technology extension forces.

At present, more than 1,800 small science and technology institutes have been built in China.

The origin of science and technology small courtyard can be traced back to 2009, when the team of teachers and students from China Agricultural University went out of the campus and tried to move the classroom and laboratory to the fields in Quzhou, Hebei.

When I first came to Quzhou, teachers and students lived in the experimental station, which was far away from the fields, and it was always impossible to catch up with the time when the local villagers went to the fields. Later, the teachers and students of the team simply lived in the village. This residence found that the effect was particularly good. People came to consult everything, and face-to-face communication narrowed the distance between the two sides.

It is understood that up to now, 157 postgraduate training units across the country have taken the lead in building more than 1,800 small science and technology institutes. In April, 2023, the postgraduate training mode of small science and technology institutes was awarded the special prize of national teaching achievement award. In the No.1 Document of the Central Committee in 2024, it was clearly put forward for the first time to promote the mode of small science and technology institutes. In addition, the model of science and technology small courtyard has been extended to Laos and 11 countries in Africa, and has been promoted and applied globally by FAO as a key case for three consecutive years.

[Sofa Butler] Take you to understand a few tips for using Xiaomi TV!

Xiaomi TV, as a smart product, the MIUI TV system that comes with Xiaomi TV has been constantly updated and optimized, adding many more user-friendly and convenient functions according to the wishes of most users. However, many new users may not be very familiar with it. Today, I will briefly introduce a few tips for using Xiaomi TV.

delayed shutdown

We know that when the TV is turned off, you can turn on the TV through the power button on the remote control. But for Xiaomi TV, when the TV is turned on normally, the power button of the remote control has two functions:

  • Short press the power button of the remote control, the TV screen is turned off, and the system enters the standby state. In fact, the TV is not really turned off, and some programs are still running in the background. Turn on the TV again to restore the TV picture before standby.

  • Long press the power button of the remote control (more than 1 second), and a function menu will pop up on the Xiaomi TV, you can choose "shutdown", "restart" and "delayed shutdown".

The functions of shutdown and restart are basically known to everyone. The "delayed shutdown" function is equivalent to the "timed shutdown" function of traditional TVs. We can choose the time period according to our needs, that is, how many minutes later the Xiaomi TV will automatically shut down, which is a very practical function.

Clear daemon

As we all know, we have usually run applications that will stay in the background despite exiting. When there are many running programs, the memory occupied by the background will become larger and larger, and it will affect the running speed of the system. At this time, by long pressing the "Home" button on the Xiaomi TV remote control, the TV will display the icon of the software running in the background and the "Clear All" option. We can choose to clear the specified application or free the random access memory space by "Clear All".

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"Touch and Play" feature

Many Xiaomi TV users connect to radio and television or other external set-top boxes through the "HDMI" or "AV" interface to watch TV channels. When we want to watch TV programs, we need to open the Xiaomi TV external set-top box in turn, and then select the corresponding interface to open it to see it. This is a bit complicated for users with elderly or children at home.

However, the Xiaomi TV can be solved perfectly through the "One Touch Broadcast" function. After turning on the "One Touch Broadcast" function in the "General Settings", as long as you turn on the Xiaomi TV first, and then open the external set-top box, the system will automatically switch to the corresponding interface screen.

External speaker settings

Installation and removal of third-party software

Xiaomi TV is a smart TV, so you can install popular TV applications at will, such as Watermelon Video, TV Cat, etc. We can download the software APK package to a U disk or computer on the Internet, and install these applications through "Local Installation" or "Quick Installation" in "App Store – > Users". If you want to delete unwanted applications, you can uninstall the corresponding APK software through "Installed Applications".

The easier way is to directly install "Sofa Butler". There are many applications in it, which are only launched after review. It is safe and secure! You don’t need to go online to find the APK every time… You can click to view the installation method.


Desktop third-party app arrangement

After using it for a period of time, people may install more and more third-party apps on Xiaomi TV, and the new app icons will be placed behind the desktop UI in the order of installation. Every time you want to open the software, you have to press the remote control for a long time to find it, and we don’t want to uninstall the previous app, how to solve it?

At this time, we press the "Menu" button of the remote control on the system desktop of the Xiaomi TV, select "Edit Mode" in the pop-up options, then select the software icon where you want to move, press the "Confirm" button of the remote control, and then press the "Arrow keys" of the remote control to move the software icon to the position you want.

Summarize:The MIUI TV version of Xiaomi TV continues the advantages of MIUI on mobile phones, and the overall ease of use and fluency are very good. Here are a few functions that are more commonly used and concerned by many people on Xiaomi TV, which can facilitate everyone to get familiar with and use this TV more quickly.

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Milestone achievement: the breeding efficiency of hybrid potato in China will be improved by more than 50%

  Many people don’t know that the French fries eaten in KFC and McDonald’s all come from potato varieties bred 120 years ago. As the staple food of 1.3 billion people in the world, potato breeding process is slow, and new breeding methods are urgently needed to reform potato breeding. Therefore, the scientists of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences put forward the "Excellent Potato Plan", the purpose of which is to make people in China and even the whole world eat potatoes with higher yield and better quality.

  At 23: 00 Beijing time on May 4th, 2023, the international authoritative journal Cell published the latest research result of Huang Sanwen’s team of Shenzhen Institute of Agricultural Genomics, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences: "Phylogenetic Discovery of Deleterious Mutations Facilities Hybrid Potato Breeding".

  This research has invented a new "evolutionary lens" technology, which gives breeders a pair of "golden eyes", can find the genome "reef" (which scientists call "harmful mutation") that hinders potato breeding as early as possible, avoid breeding "going the wrong way", and let everyone eat better quality and high yield potatoes faster.

  "We drew the first two-dimensional map of harmful mutations in potato genome, and developed a new model of whole genome prediction by using the map information, which can predict the yield in seedling stage, with an accuracy of 25%-45% higher than before. In this way, materials with low yield can be eliminated at an early stage, thus quickly cultivating high-yield varieties, and the breeding efficiency of hybrid potatoes will be improved by more than 50%. " Huang Sanwen said in an interview with The Paper (www.thepaper.cn).

  "excellent potato plan"

  Potato is the most important tuber food crop, the main food source of 1.3 billion people and the fourth staple food crop in China. Potato has the advantages of high yield, less water consumption and wide planting area. However, because the traditional cultivated potato is autotetraploid and its genome is complex, the breeding process is very slow. In addition, the asexual propagation of potato chips also faces some problems, such as low propagation coefficient, high storage and transportation cost, and easy to carry pests and diseases.

  How to transform tetraploid potato propagated by tuber into diploid hybrid potato propagated by seed is a worldwide problem in potato industry, and it is also the "crown jewel" of seed industry innovation.

  In order to solve the above problems, Huang Sanwen’s team launched the "Excellent Potato Plan" in conjunction with domestic and foreign superior units, aiming at replacing tetraploid with diploid potato, replacing potato block with seed propagation, guiding potato breeding with genomics and synthetic biology, and completely changing the breeding and reproduction methods of potatoes.

  Yang Zhenhai, Party Secretary of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that in recent years, the "Excellent Potato Program" team has successively solved major problems such as potato genome analysis, self-incompatibility and self-decline, and cultivated the first generation of inbred lines and hybrids. The related achievements have been published in top international academic journals, and now the latest achievement of "Identification of harmful mutations by evolutionary genomics" has been published in Cell magazine, which can provide a new scientific basis for potato breeding parent selection and variety improvement. These original basic scientific research achievements have been highly recognized by colleagues at home and abroad, and laid a solid foundation for accelerating the breeding of diploid hybrid potatoes.

  Potato breeding enters the fast lane

  In this study, Huang Sanwen’s team collected a large number of Solanaceae species resources in conjunction with outstanding units at home and abroad, and traced the evolutionary traces of the longest 80 million years and accumulated 1.2 billion years through comparative analysis of 100 Solanaceae genomes. On this basis, an "evolutionary lens" was developed to discover the evolutionary constraints and harmful mutations of potatoes, and the first two-dimensional map of harmful mutations of potatoes was drawn.

  Using the map information, the researchers put forward a counterintuitive inbred line cultivation method and developed a new model for whole genome prediction, which made the potato yield prediction reach unprecedented accuracy. In addition, the model can accurately estimate the breeding value according to genotype and harmful mutation information, better help breeding experts to make early breeding decisions, further reduce breeding costs, shorten potato breeding cycle and quickly cultivate high-yield and high-quality potato varieties.

  This research made China stand in the leading position in the world in the basic theory and technology of potato breeding, and was funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and China Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

  So, what are the implications of this research for other crop breeding? In this regard, Li Jiayang, an academician of China Academy of Sciences (director of Yazhouwan Laboratory and researcher of Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) said, "The research result of Huang Sanwen’s team will not only be for potatoes, but also for grain, oil, fruits, vegetables and tea."

  Zhong Kang, an academician of China Academy of Sciences (researcher of Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences) commented: "This research by Huang Sanwen’s team is a milestone achievement in potato breeding, which indicates that crop breeding has entered a new era, that is, breeders can’t just pay attention to their own ‘ Three points per acre ’ It is even more necessary to think about the new strategy of breeding from a larger evolutionary dimension. "

  "The research finally found the genetic basis of counterintuitive screening, developed a new genome-wide prediction model and applied it to the early decision-making of hybrid potato breeding, marking that China’s potato breeding has definitely reached the international frontier." Professor Lai Jinsheng of China Agricultural University (Director of National Maize Improvement Center) said.