100000 square meters of modern seed industry "Zhangjiang Seed Valley" is about to be constructed, and the urban area will collaborate to create a "modern seed industry demonstration zone". Agriculture | Zhangjiang | Seed Industry
The seed industry is the "chip" of modern agriculture. On August 11th, Shanghai Pudong New Area and the Shanghai Agriculture and Rural Commission jointly signed a strategic cooperation agreement for the construction of a modern seed industry demonstration zone, and signed a memorandum of cooperation with four research institutes of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai Normal University, and the Municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences, clarifying that Pudong New Area will be built into a national modern seed industry science and technology innovation and industrial highland with high innovation resource concentration, strong enterprise innovation ability, excellent achievement transformation efficiency, and core competitiveness.
In recent years, Shanghai has issued a series of policy documents supporting the development of modern seed industry, including the Action Plan for Promoting High Quality Development of Modern Seed Industry in Shanghai, to coordinate and promote the high-quality development of Shanghai's seed industry. As a leading area for socialist modernization construction, the development of seed industry in Pudong New Area has tradition, foundation, market, and brand, effectively promoting the development of seed source agriculture, and emerging a group of seed source enterprises and flagship seed source products with great development prospects. Su Jinshan, Director of the Agriculture and Rural Committee of Pudong New Area, introduced that Pudong has currently formed a complete policy support and service system around basic research, technological innovation, entrepreneurship incubation, demonstration application, industrial transformation and other links, and is accelerating the gathering of various innovative entities and elements.
At the meeting, four units, namely Zhangjiang Grain Planting, Pudong Ten Thousand acre Rice Breeding Demonstration Base, Pudong Snow Vegetable Industry Research Institute, and Shanghai Photocatalytic Industry Technology Research Institute Pudong Key Laboratory, were unveiled, providing spatial support for building a modern seed industry innovation chain and industrial chain. The first batch of 10 seed industry scientific research cooperation projects, including the "Improvement of Rice Industry", have completed cooperation intentions and signed contracts. The projects involve multiple types of crops, vegetables, fruits and melons, pigs, aquatic products, flowers, etc., and will comprehensively promote the high-quality development of the seed industry in the new area.
It is worth mentioning that in the Zhangjiang core area of Pudong National Agricultural Science and Technology Park, a research and innovation center of about 100000 square meters will be built to create a modern seed industry "Zhangjiang Seed Valley", focusing on gathering globally leading seed industry research and development centers, public experimental platforms, and leading seed industry enterprises.
Zhu Zhisong, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Pudong New Area Committee, attended the event.