Text: Yu Yu
Edited by Yu Yu
preface
In today's globalization, a contest about chickens is quietly staged, which is not only a story about breeding technology, but also a legend about national security and scientific and technological innovation.
And how does it affect our table security and national food strategies?
The history of the development of farmed chickens
At a fast-food restaurant in Beijing, a customer is enjoying a fragrant fried chicken, unbeknownst to him, but behind the crispy, tender chicken lies behind a thrilling international contest.
The scientific name of this chicken is white-feathered broiler, which is an important achievement of modern animal husbandry, it is large and white, and its growth rate is amazing.
The ability to grow from a chick to a 2.5-kilogram adult in just 45 days has made the white feather chicken a dominant force in the global broiler market.
However, it is such a seemingly ordinary chicken, but it has become the focus of the game between China and the United States, for a long time, United States with its advanced breeding technology, firmly control the global white feather chicken provenance.
This control is not only a technical advantage, but also a strategic counterbalance, and by mastering the provenance, the United States can regulate the global supply of white-feathered chickens at any time.
It's like installing an invisible switch on the Chinese table, and the United States can decide at any time whether the Chinese can eat good chicken.
In today's globalization, a country's food security has long been more than just a matter of yield, the security of the provenance, has become a strategic highland that cannot be ignored, and the story of the white feather chicken is the epitome of this silent war.
In the face of this situation, China began its own way to break through, which is a contest related to national security, scientific and technological strength and national self-esteem.
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The victory or defeat of this battle is not only related to the table of Chinese, but also related to China's position in the field of global agricultural science and technology, which tests a country's innovation ability and a nation's willpower.
In this seemingly chicken-related contest, what we see is a game between two great powers at the level of technology and strategy.
It tells us that in today's globalized world, a country's security and development often depend on seemingly insignificant details.
Breakthrough in a difficult situation: the difficult rise of China's white-feathered chicken industry
In a remote mountain village in China, a group of scientists are on a secret mission to breed China's own white-feathered chicken breed.
This seemingly simple goal is like a long marathon, full of hardships and challenges, and China has introduced white-feathered chickens for decades.
In the 80s of the last century, with the spring breeze of reform and opening up, white feather chicken entered China with McDonald's, KFC and other fast food brands, and its high efficiency and low cost soon conquered China's table.
However, behind the rapidly growing demand is a deep dependence on United States provenance, and the genetic code of every white-feathered chicken grown on Chinese soil is in the hands of United States companies.
The Ministry of Agriculture has started to try to breed white-feathered chickens independently, but breeding is a work that requires long-term investment and slow results.
At that time, it was difficult for China to support the continuous development of this work, both in terms of technology accumulation and capital investment.
The first attempt ended in failure, but this did not mean that it was abandoned, and in the years that followed, Chinese researchers have been quietly accumulating and trying.
They know that this is not only a scientific research project, but also an important task related to national security, and the core difficulty of white-feathered chicken breeding lies in its complex genetic system.
To breed an excellent breed, it needs to be continuously selected and optimized in several generations of chickens, and each generation has a breeding cycle of up to 500 days, which means that a complete breeding cycle can be as long as ten years or even longer.
In this long process, researchers are faced not only with technical problems, but also with tremendous pressure from the market.
However, it is in such a predicament that China's white feather chicken industry began a difficult breakthrough, a group of scientific researchers, entrepreneurs, they firmly believe that only by mastering the core technology, can the industry be truly independent and controllable.
Every step of this breakthrough battle is full of hardships, from finding suitable seed sources, to establishing a breeding system, to conducting large-scale field trials, every link requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.
And all this is carried out under the obstruction of United States enterprises, in this process, we see not only the hardships of scientific and technological innovation, but also the tenacity and wisdom of a nation at a critical moment.
Breaking out of the cocoon into a butterfly: the development of China's aquaculture industry
In a deep mountain forest in Fujian Province, a modern breeding base stands quietly, which is the secret weapon of Sunner Group - the independent breeding base of white feather chickens.
In 2015, when many people were still lamenting the technological monopoly of United States, Sunner Group had quietly begun a revolution about national food security.
Sunner Group's decision is undoubtedly risky, white feather chicken breeding is not an overnight project, it requires huge capital investment, top scientific research talents, and time precipitation.
In this process, the risk of failure is always there, but it is this courage that lays the foundation for a breakthrough in China's white feather chicken industry.
Sunner Group's researchers work day and night, knowing that they are not only responsible for the future of an enterprise, but also the hope of a country.
In this hidden base, every chicken is carefully cared for, and researchers continuously optimize the growth rate, meat quality, taste and disease resistance of chickens through precise genetic screening.
This is a battle with genes, but also a race against time, but just as the research is yielding preliminary results, United States companies are aware of the movements of Chinese companies.
They sent representatives to threaten to cut off the supply of breeding chickens and exert tremendous pressure on the Sunner Group, and in the face of this hegemonic behavior, the Sunner Group resolutely chose to insist.
They gave a shocking response to the American representatives: please leave within 10 minutes, at this moment the Chinese company showed unprecedented self-confidence and courage.
They know that only by mastering the core technology can they truly realize the independence and controllability of the industry, and this courage comes from the technical strength accumulated over the years, and also comes from the firm maintenance of national interests.
Sunner Group is not alone, and many enterprises in China, such as Xinguang Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Yukou Poultry Industry, etc., are also carrying out independent breeding of white feather chickens.
They tackled their own problems and cooperated with each other to jointly promote the development of China's white feather chicken industry, and the efforts of these enterprises finally bore fruit in 2021.
Shengze 901, Yukou Poultry Industry's Ward 188, and Xinguang Agriculture and Animal Husbandry's Guangming No. 2 cultivated by Sunner Group have successively passed the national examination.
This marks that China's white-feathered chicken industry has finally gotten rid of its dependence on United States and achieved true independence and control.
This is not only the victory of agricultural science and technology, but also the embodiment of national self-confidence, in this process, we see the courage and wisdom of Chinese enterprises in the face of challenges.
They have proved with practical actions that as long as they persevere, there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome, and this spirit is the key to China's self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology in the new era.
Flying Wild: China's Chicken Export Journey
On an ordinary summer day in June 2023, Beijing Daxing International Airport ushered in an extraordinary moment.
An airplane carrying 15,500 Jinghong No. 1 high-yielding laying hens and 1,000 Ward 188 fast and large white-feathered broilers slowly lifted off and flew to the distant African continent.
The destination of this batch of chickens is Tanzania, local time on June 28, these Chinese chickens arrived safely, and it is gratifying that after a long journey, the survival rate of these chickens is as high as 97%, far exceeding industry expectations.
This not only proves the excellent quality of China's white-feathered chickens, but also demonstrates China's excellent level in breeding poultry transportation technology.
Tanzania is just the beginning, with the successful export of Chinese white-feathered chickens, more and more countries are beginning to take interest in Chinese white-feathered chickens.
Angola, Malaysia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other countries have expressed their intention to introduce Chinese white-feathered chickens, which means that Chinese white-feathered chickens are embarking on a journey of globalization.
The recognition of China's white-feathered chicken in the international market is not only an affirmation of its quality, but also a recognition of China's agricultural science and technology strength.
For a long time, United States dominated the global white-feathered chicken market, and today's entry of China has not only broken this monopoly, but also brought new options to the global livestock industry.
The significance of this change goes far beyond the field of agriculture, it symbolizes the rise of China in the field of high-tech agriculture and demonstrates the improvement of China's position in the global industrial chain.
In the international market, China's white feather chickens are still facing many challenges, how to adapt to the breeding environment of different countries, how to meet the needs of different markets, how to gain a firm foothold in the fierce international competition, these are new topics that China's white feather chicken industry needs to face.
At the same time, the development of the white feather chicken industry has also brought new opportunities to China, which not only creates a large number of employment opportunities, promotes the development of related industries, but also provides a new impetus for the modernization and internationalization of China's agriculture.
From breeding to breeding, from slaughtering and processing to cold chain logistics, a complete industrial chain is being formed, and in this process, we see the transformation of China's agriculture from following to leading.
This transformation is not only reflected in technology, but also in the concept, from the simple pursuit of yield to pay attention to quality and efficiency, from passive acceptance of international standards to active participation in the formulation of standards, China's agriculture is standing on the world stage with a new attitude.
End:
From the breakthrough of a chicken to the guarantee of national food security, the success of China's white-feathered chicken is not only a victory of agricultural science and technology, but also a manifestation of national self-confidence.
It proves that in key areas, China has the ability to break the monopoly and achieve technological breakthroughs through independent innovation.
This story tells us that as long as we persevere and innovate, we can make a difference in any field and contribute to the development of the country and the rejuvenation of the nation.
Resources:
Cailian News Agency released on July 20, 2024 "Chicken source is tight, superimposed on Brazil's new virus, the price of hairy chickens has risen by about 10% in 1 month, and white-feathered chickens have survived the darkest moment? 》
On July 18, 2024, the financial industry released "Chicken Seedling Prices Soar, Boosting Confidence in Breeding"
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