Cultivate the feelings of knowing agriculture and loving agriculture, and encourage young students to grow and become talents
On September 29, South China Agricultural University held a donation ceremony in the Wen's Building of the school, and the "Bi Yingzuo Fund" initiated by Professor Bi Yingzuo of the College of Animal Science was donated 5.2 million yuan. Among them, Bi Yingzuo and Xie Aizhen donated 1 million yuan, Zhu Jimei and Liu Jianxin of Guangzhou Juyuan Biochemical Co., Ltd., Wang Jian, Zhang Xiangbin, Zheng Miaohong and his wife, Chen Feng, Zhou Liming and his wife, Qin Jianping, Dai Wentao and other caring alumni and alumni enterprises such as Guangdong Tianxing Agricultural Co., Ltd. donated a total of 4.2 million yuan. At present, the total amount of the fund has reached more than 1,000 yuan.
The 80-year-old professor is enthusiastic about supporting the younger generations, and he is grateful for encountering a good era and a good platform
"Since I entered South China Agricultural University in 1963, it has been more than 60 years; Thank you for meeting a good era, thank Huanong for providing me with a good platform, and urge me to become an inspirational talent and get rich with science and technology! Now I am in my old age, and I am fortunate to have everyone's care and love; The greatest happiness and gratification as a teacher is to be remembered by students! At the donation ceremony, Bi Yingzuo, who is 80 years old, said emotionally. He expressed the hope that the fund can inspire students to become outstanding talents with lofty aspirations, noble character and sound personality. I will continue to pass on love and warmth in my lifetime, repay Huanong and society, work silently for youth, and irrigate students' dreams.
Li Fengliang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Huanong, recalled with affection the touching deeds of Bi Yingzuo who has continued to donate funds to the school and donate to the campus landscape such as cherry blossom garden, cherry blossom pavilion, thanksgiving pavilion and love pavilion for more than ten years, and expressed his sincere gratitude to Bi Yingzuo and the alumni who participated in the donation. "The predecessors planted trees, the descendants enjoyed the shade, the predecessors made pavilions, and the descendants enjoyed the flowers. Teacher Bi Yingzuo's selfless kindness is not only an affectionate confession to students and the school, but also a firm watch over the animal husbandry industry. He encouraged the students to keep in mind the ardent expectations of the teachers, always be grateful, study hard, cultivate the feelings of knowing agriculture and loving agriculture, practice the ability to strengthen agriculture and rejuvenate agriculture, and make contributions on the big stage of the motherland's rural revitalization and the construction of an agricultural power.
Huanong cherry blossom forest, has his important contribution
Bi Yingzuo is a well-known animal husbandry and veterinary expert in China, the founder of the team of Huanong Livestock and Poultry Health Breeding and Disease Prevention and Control Research Laboratory, and has served as the chief expert of Huanong College of Animal Science and the director of the Department of Animal Science, etc., and has cultivated a group of outstanding livestock and poultry talents, and deeply participated in and promoted the school-enterprise cooperation between Huanong and Wen's Group, and has made important contributions to the development of the livestock and poultry industry in mainland China.
Bi Yingzuo often said, "Learning to be tolerant and learning to be grateful are the two great things in life, so I hope to make a modest contribution to the school after retirement." In 2013, with the original intention of "repaying the society and returning to Huanong", Bi Yingzuo initiated the establishment of the "Bi Yingzuo Fund", and donated 2.2 million yuan in the first phase, of which Bi Yingzuo himself donated 1 million yuan and other joint members donated 1.2 million yuan to reward undergraduate and graduate students with excellent character and learning in the College of Animal Science. In 2018, Bi Yingzuo donated another 500,000 yuan to reward undergraduate and graduate students with excellent character and academic performance in the School of Veterinary Medicine. In August 2023, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the "Bi Yingzuo Fund", Bi Yingzuo donated another 2.6 million yuan.
Over the past ten years, the Bi Yingzuo Scholarship has helped and inspired a large number of young students to grow and become talents. According to incomplete statistics, among the 87 award-winning students who have graduated, 42 have gone to Cornell University, University College Dublin, University of Queensland, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, China Agricultural University and other well-known universities at home and abroad for further study, 16 have become university teachers, 6 are postdoctoral fellows in the station, and the others are mainly in Wen's Group, Haid Group and other leading enterprises in animal husbandry, and shine for the development of the national animal husbandry industry in their respective positions.
In addition to caring about the growth of young students, Bi Yingzuo is also enthusiastic about the construction of Huanong campus. Since 2013, he has successively donated a large number of cherry trees, peach trees and bell trees and other ornamental plants to the school, a total of more than 2,000 trees, planted in front of the College of Animal Science and in front of the Triangle City, Building No. 5, Hongze Lake, and donated to build a cherry blossom pavilion, a Thanksgiving Pavilion, a love pavilion, etc., for teachers and students to rest and enjoy the beautiful scenery.
According to the memories of teachers and students of the College of Animal Science, in order to find a cherry tree suitable for planting in the school, Bi Yingzuo, who was already over the age of ten at the time, researched and searched for saplings all over the country to understand the planting method. After buying the cherry blossom saplings, he drove his own car to pull the saplings from the school gate to the college gate one by one, and took the students to plant and fertilize together. Until now, Bi Yingzuo still insists on working in the cherry blossom garden with teachers and students every year.
Nowadays, the cherry blossoms that bloom brilliantly every spring have become a beautiful landscape business card of Huanong campus.
"Those who fall into reality think of their trees, and those who drink their streams cherish their sources. Thank you very much to Professor Bi Yingzuo for his infinite enthusiasm and dedication to the cause of school education! Your kindness is like a ray of warm sunshine, illuminating our way forward, and also providing us with an elegant environment for reading and living. Gigi Lee, winner of the 2024 Bi Yingzuo Scholarship and 2022 Animal Science Wen's class, said that winning the Bi Yingzuo Scholarship is not only material support, but also spiritual encouragement, and an affirmation of her own efforts and perseverance.
"I will take this honor as a new starting point, devote myself to the animal husbandry industry and social services with more enthusiasm and firm faith, and strive to become a young man in the new era with the feelings of knowing and loving agriculture and mastering the ability to strengthen agriculture and rejuvenate agriculture." She said.
Guangdong Science and Technology News reporter Liu Xiaoyong
Courtesy of South China Agricultural University