Scientific understanding and utilization of agricultural transgenic technology

Recently, Zhang Taolin, vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, was invited to the Central Party School and Chinese Academy of Governance to give a special report on "Scientific understanding and utilization of agricultural transgenic technology." he gave a comprehensive lecture on seven aspects, including the scientific principle of transgenic technology, the research and application of agricultural transgenic in the world, the safety management of agricultural transgenic in China, and the development strategy and key tasks.

Zhang Taolin explained in depth the principle of transgenic technology and its relationship with traditional animal and plant breeding, and systematically introduced the frontier and latest progress of global agricultural transgenic technology. This paper analyzes and compares the cultivation, consumption and international trade of genetically modified crops in typical countries and regions such as the United States, the European Union and South America, and comprehensively introduces the research and application of agricultural transgenic in China.

In view of the safety issues that everyone is concerned about, Zhang Taolin interpreted in detail the principles, standards, framework and contents of the global safety risk assessment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), comprehensively reviewed the practice of the global application of GMOs in agriculture in the past 20 years, and objectively introduced the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the European Commission. The evaluation results of special studies on transgenic safety carried out by international organizations and authoritative institutions such as the National Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Engineering, the School of Medicine and the Royal Society of Britain.

Focusing on GM safety management, Zhang Taolin completely introduced the management norms, general compliance and characteristic practices of GM safety at home and abroad from the aspects of laws and regulations, technical methods, management system and so on. it also focuses on the comparison of the safety evaluation and labeling system of genetically modified organisms in the United States, the European Union and China. At the same time, the report objectively analyzes the challenges faced by China in terms of technology, environment and supervision, and expounds the development strategy and key tasks of agricultural transgenic in China in the future.

The students generally reflected that the report had a high position, a wide field of vision, comprehensive and objective, detailed data, profound and simple, easy to understand, and responded to questions of general concern in a professional and rigorous manner. This is not only an interpretation meeting of China's agricultural transgenic policy, but also a popular science lecture on agricultural transgenic technology, which is very enlightening for everyone's scientific understanding and rational treatment of agricultural transgenic technology. Zhang Taolin also exchanged views with the trainees on the safety of genetically modified food and the promotion of genetically modified science popularization.

More than 1300 people attended the report meeting, including advanced training classes for provincial and ministerial-level and department-and bureau-level cadres of the Central Party School, and regular training classes for civil servants at the department and bureau level of Chinese Academy of Governance.