The 64-year-old peasant academician is on fire. Why did he give up his high salary and leave the laboratory to eat and sleep with farmers?

An academician led a team to help the poor in poor villages in China for five years. After refusing the company to pay 10 billion yuan to buy his patent, he gave the patent of "disease prevention without pesticides" to farmers for free. Others asked him why he didn't stay abroad and would rather give up his high salary and go home. He replied: "No matter how favorable the foreign conditions are, doing things for others, for the motherland and hometown is more meaningful than anything else."

He is Academician Zhu Youyong, Academician of China Academy of Engineering and Honorary President of Yunnan Agricultural University. It is this academician who has published more than 200 scientific papers in academic journals such as Nature, won more than 20 invention patents and won 18 major awards. However, after China Institute of Engineering confirmed that 20 15 was designated as a poverty alleviation work in Lancang, he volunteered to lead a team to Yunshan Village of Lahu nationality in Lancang, Yunnan.

At that time, Yunshan Village was one of the poorest villages in China. There are only mud walls and thatched houses that leak everywhere. In such a harsh environment, no one who came to help in the past stayed, but Academician Zhu stayed. Academician Zhu visited the village and found that the local ecological planting environment was good, and poverty was only caused by improper planting by villagers. Over the past four years, the team of Academician Zhu Youyong has held a series of skills training courses in Lancang, including potato planting in winter, livestock and poultry breeding, vegetables in early winter, Panax notoginseng under the forest, Chinese medicine planting and so on. , with more than 65,438+0,500 students.

After solving the problem of planting agricultural products, Academician Zhu did not forget to help farmers solve the market problem. Through the cooperation of Qi Xin, the knowledge of e-commerce will be popularized to local farmers. This is also the first time to introduce e-commerce courses into poverty alleviation work. With the addition of new e-commerce, Lancang's new agricultural products have now taken the high-speed train in the era of mobile internet, which directly leads to major cities in China from mountainous areas. At the same time, the science and technology poverty alleviation system has also established a complete closed loop from production to sales.

Thanks to the efforts of Academician Zhu in the past five years, the poverty rate in Lancang County has dropped from 465,438+0% in 2065,438+05 to nearly 3% this year. Academician Zhu was very happy to see the villagers get rid of poverty and become rich. He said: I chose to take root in the countryside because I wanted to bring my scientific research results to farmers.