After a year, the real backbone of China, we should remember him.

Ordinary hero

Ordinary hero

Chen Xiaochun

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You may not know this man.

His name is Zhong Yang.

He is a professor and famous botanist in the School of Life Sciences of Fudan University in China.

There was a car accident on the morning of September 25, 2017.

Unfortunately passed away

Only 53 years old

Since 2001

30,000 kilometers per year

For 16 consecutive years

Travel all over the high altitude and low oxygen areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

For the national seed bank, 40 million seeds from thousands of plant species were collected.

Stored a rich treasure of "genes" for future generations.

He firmly believes

A gene can bring hope to a country.

One seed can benefit thousands of people.

When one day the species disappears

Through these seeds, they will germinate and grow again.

In order to sample, we walk at least 30,000 kilometers a year to find the track of biological evolution. All kinds of dangers often occur on the way of collecting seeds. There are almost 17 kinds of altitude sickness. In the past decade, I have had one or two. Dizziness, nausea, weakness and diarrhea are all common. Scientific research itself is a challenge to human beings!

-- Zhongyang

Each plant has to collect 5000 seeds. In order to avoid the problem of genetic hybridization, hybridization may occur between different individuals and different varieties, so the distance between the two samples should not be less than 50 kilometers. And the long-term huge plateau altitude difference of various altitude reactions, means the boundary between life and death.

He said: suppose there is still cancer more than a hundred years later, and it is found that there is a plant that can fight cancer. Maybe this plant has disappeared in Xizang because of climate change. People will remember that more than a hundred years ago, a professor surnamed Zhong seemed to have collected it. "maybe some people say, in a hundred years' time, this seed will be useless? I look forward to seeing the day when the seeds are useless, which shows how beautiful it is that the plant is still there! "

Zhong Yang's "seed Future"

Teacher Zhong Yang once said, "one gene can save a country, and one seed can benefit thousands of people." "there is no absoluteness in life. You don't have to wait until your deathbed to look back on your life. As long as you do what you should do at every age, you can live up to your life." More than 30 years of teaching, 16 years of assistance to Tibet, the seaside mangrove, how many people tearfully reread all this, miss that challenge limit only to sow the future teacher Zhong!

However, his life came to an abrupt end at the age of 53.

Teacher Zhong Yang's last words:

"every life comes to an end, but I am not afraid. Because my students will continue the road of scientific exploration, and the seeds we collect may take root one day in hundreds of years' time, and by then, I don't know how many people's dreams will be realized. "

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