The seed production base has become the base of improved seed supply.

Zhangye City, Gansu Province, located in the middle of Hexi Corridor, south of the Qilian Mountains on the northern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and north of the Badain Jaran Desert on the Inner Mongolia Plateau, is located in the middle reaches of the Heihe River Basin, the second largest inland river in China. With sufficient sunshine, convenient irrigation conditions and low precipitation, Zhangye is extremely suitable for maize seed production and storage.

Jianning County, Fujian Province, where mountains and rivers crisscross, hills, rivers, villages and non-rice crops become natural barriers, provides a large number of relatively independent pits and ridges for rice seed production. A variety of rice farming areas have been formed in different elevations and different farming systems, which provide good isolation conditions for various combinations of hybrid rice varieties.

Gongan County, Hubei Province, which faces Shishou in the east, Songzi in the west, Li County in the south and Jingzhou in the north, is rich in water resources, with an annual active accumulated temperature of 5000 ℃, an effective accumulated temperature of more than 3000 ℃, a humidity of more than 80%, a large temperature difference between day and night, and a small wind speed. The weather is sunny and less rainy from late June to October, which is extremely conducive to hybrid rice seed production.

The seed production base is a valuable resource that integrates the advantages of nature, economy, science and technology, and manpower, and turns the seed production advantages of Zhangye, Jianning, public security and other places into the winning trend of agricultural production. it is the main role of the comprehensive agricultural development, breeding and processing construction project. "the seed production base is the basis for ensuring the supply of improved varieties and bears the important task of meeting the seed demand for agricultural production." Yu Xinrong, vice minister of agriculture, stressed at the national meeting on the construction of seed production bases for modern seed industry: "We must strengthen the construction of superior seed production bases at the national strategic level. We must make great efforts to plan, protect, build, manage, and make good use of it."

The central government strongly supports a variety of ingenious tricks everywhere-harder facilities, larger scale, and stronger technology.

In recent years, the development of modern seed industry has higher and higher requirements for the construction of seed production base, and the modernization of seed industry must rely on the modernization of seed production base. The opinions on accelerating the Development of Modern crop seed Industry issued by the State Council in April 2011 and the opinions on deepening the Reform of seed Industry system and improving Innovation ability issued by the General Office of the State Council at the end of 2013, both clearly require that the construction of seed production bases be strengthened and the guarantee capacity of seed supply in our country be improved rapidly. With the deepening of seed industry reform, the construction of seed production base has entered a new golden period, and the scale, standardization, mechanization and intensive level of seed production are all improving rapidly.

Since the implementation of the comprehensive agricultural development project in 1996, the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Office of Comprehensive Agricultural Development have implemented a total of 161 projects in 28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country, with a total investment of 500 million yuan by 2012. In recent years, the state's investment in the project of good breeding and processing base has continued to increase, with the central investment rising from 100 million yuan in 2013 to 120 million yuan in 2014.

From 2010 to 2013, the Ministry of Agriculture established 51 improved seed breeding and processing bases undertaken by enterprises in 47 important seed production counties (cities and districts) in 19 provinces (cities) across the country, involving important crops such as corn, rice, wheat and cotton. The national hybrid maize seed production base, located in Ganzhou District, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, is the earliest seed production base undertaken by enterprises in the country to undertake the "Project Summary of improved Variety breeding and processing Base of the Ministry of Agriculture for Comprehensive Agricultural Development". Wang Lixiao, deputy director of the Gansu Provincial seed Administration, told reporters: "in 2010, China seed Group Co., Ltd. undertook the construction project of Zhangye high-quality and high-yield corn varieties and processing base, with a central financial investment of 5 million yuan."

While the country is comprehensively strengthening the construction of seed production bases, the local governments where each base is located are also "building blocks". The national corn seed industrial park built in Linze County of Zhangye City has attracted more than a dozen seed production enterprises with strong breeding ability and advanced production and processing technology. in addition, seed production and processing areas, seed testing and technical service centers, seed trading and exhibition centers and other supporting facilities are also available. In recent years, while 10 million yuan has been allocated for the construction of a hybrid rice seed engineering base in Gongan County, Hubei Province, a leading group for rice seed production has been set up to include seed production in the county's economic development plan. while coordinating and solving various problems in seed production. Cengong County, Guizhou Province has issued a preferential policy for attracting investment from the seed industry. The land requisition fees paid by seed enterprises for infrastructure construction such as seed warehouses, drying facilities and seed drying farms will be refunded by the Cengong county government within three years.

Clear construction objectives and project management norms

-- one piece of construction, one piece of results.

Whether the seed production base can be sustained and stable is not only an important guarantee of sufficient seed quantity and safety, but also a key factor for the sustainable development of seed industry. In order to consolidate the seed production base, Mianyang City of Sichuan Province has put forward the administrative management system of "one implementation, two strictures, and three strengthening". Strictly control the access of enterprises, strictly examine the economic strength and integrity of enterprises, strengthen the management education of enterprise self-discipline behavior, strengthen the supervision and management of illegal and illegal behavior, and strengthen the management of seed collection and deposit payment of enterprises.

With the massive transfer of young and middle-aged labor force in rural areas, the problem of shortage of manpower in many seed production bases in the busy season is becoming more and more prominent, the aging and feminization of the labor force is becoming more and more serious, and the proportion of labor costs in seed production costs is getting higher and higher. the shortage of labor makes the demand for mechanized seed production in seed production base more and more urgent.

While the subsidy policy for the purchase of agricultural machinery and tools for seed production has been effectively implemented nationwide, the continuous improvement of subsidy standards and the types and objects of subsidies are also gradually expanding. People pay more and more attention to the research and development of agricultural machinery equipment, which is the key link of seed production, and the mechanization of emasculating, pollination, harvest, drying and processing are constantly improving. "in 2013, the production line built by Zhangye Sanbei seed Industry Co., Ltd. in the national corn seed industrial park is the most advanced corn seed production line in the country and even in Asia." Li Jang Su, director of the Linze County Committee of Agriculture and director of the seed Administration Bureau, told reporters, "this production line has invested nearly 90 million yuan, ranging from harvest and picking to drying and threshing, to selection and coating with an annual processing capacity of more than 6500 tons. Drying with corncob as fuel is also a major feature of this assembly line."

"one piece of construction, one piece of success" is the primary goal of the construction project of the good breeding base in recent years. In order to standardize all aspects of the project and ensure that the management is in place, project leading groups and project implementation groups have been set up in each project implementation place. Both Ganzhou District and Linze County of Zhangye City have formed a "county-and township-level seed management system". Village cadres have spontaneously become a bridge between seed farmers and seed production enterprises, supervising quality and ensuring yield in important seed production links. In order to do a good job in the monitoring and management of state support funds and enterprise supporting funds, Beijing Oruijin seed Industry Co., Ltd. put forward the "three specialties" management system, that is, special account storage, special personnel management and special funds for project construction funds. Song Jianhu, head of Linze area of Beijing Oruijin seed Industry Co., Ltd., said: "the sound project and fund management system for comprehensive agricultural development has effectively ensured the standardization and safety of the use of project funds, and has also boosted our confidence in smoothly promoting the implementation of the project and giving full play to the benefits of the project."

Support from all walks of life to enhance the base has achieved remarkable results.

-- turn advantages into victories

"since the 16th CPC National Congress, China has built a total of 4.383 million mu of improved seed breeding base, increased the original seed production capacity by 130 million kg, increased the original and improved seed production capacity by 340 million kg and 2.18 billion kg, and provided farmers with a total of 4 billion seedlings of various types." Liu Beihua, deputy director of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, said: "the establishment of a large number of improved variety breeding bases and superior characteristic demonstration bases has strengthened the infrastructure of improved varieties, improved agricultural scientific research and breeding conditions, and improved the comprehensive production and processing capacity of improved varieties." the speed of breeding and popularization of new varieties has been accelerated, and the seed supply capacity and coverage rate of superior and characteristic agricultural products have been improved. "

With the implementation of the construction project of the good breeding base, various policies and departments have given more and more support to the seed industry, and the supply of improved varieties of the national seed industry has provided a strong support for food security and the stable development of agriculture. After a large number of fine varieties have been popularized on a large scale, the coverage rate of improved varieties of grain crops in China has reached more than 96% in recent years. Since 2012, the area of China's major crop seed production base has reached more than 20 million mu, the annual output of commercial seeds has exceeded 8 billion kg, and the qualified rate of "two hybrid" seed quality has remained stable at more than 95 per cent.

"the effect of the construction project of the good breeding base in recent years is obvious to all." Liao Xiyuan, deputy director of the seed Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture, said, "the advantages of seed production bases across the country are gradually turning into industrial success." In addition to the unified planning, transformation and construction of water, electricity, forest, road and other farming infrastructure in the project area, the pace of popularization of improved varieties and methods in the project area is also accelerating, and a large number of new varieties have been demonstrated and popularized. Not only that, the agricultural industrial structure of the project area has been adjusted, and through the guidance and promotion of the project, the seed industry has gradually become the leading industry of agricultural development in seed production areas such as Zhangye City, Gansu Province, Pixian County, Sichuan Province, Ezhou City, Hubei Province, and seed production has also become the leading way for farmers to get rich.

With the development of the seed production base and the refinement of the social division of labor, the seed production industry has developed vigorously, the local economy and farmers' income have continued to grow, and a number of seed enterprises with credibility, strength, variety and market have successively entered the seed production bases all over the country, and the enterprises and the base have formed a virtuous circle model of mutual promotion and mutual promotion. "take the base with variety and promote development by base" is no longer an empty call. Seed production enterprises are making great strides towards the integration of scale, industrialization, breeding, propagation and promotion, mechanized operation, fine planting, specialized production and intensive management. a seed production industry cluster with the base as the core has been formed.