Speech by Academician Li Yu at the 13th Chinese Mushroom Days

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Ladies and gentlemen, good morning!

Today, we gather in this beautiful city for the 13th time. In the past 13 years, the same team has done the same thing for the same goal in the same place, which is unique in the history of Chinese mushroom industry development. After 13 years’ experience, the team as well as the people in mushroom industry from all over the country have made great contributions to Chinese mushroom industry. The Chinese mushroom industry has a very impressive performance from various industries. The mushroom yield has increased from 57,000 tons in 1978 to 40 million tons in 2018, achieved a growth rate of 700 times in the past 40 years. The achievements include the hard work of the experts and colleagues, especially the mushroom farmers. The Chinese mushroom Day has gone through 13 years in Zhangzhou. Just as chairman Cao said that I once evaluated, "it is a vane and a brand, in addition, it is also a platform for academic exchange, a window for us to display the Chinese mushroom industry, and a school for training young people. It is a bridge and a bond." In this regard, as bystanders, we make this assessment to make agreement and praise of the Chinese Mushroom Days. In fact, as Chinese mushroom practitioners, we should be aware of the essence of it. I want to use three words to illustrate these real contents of Chinese Mushroom Days.

The first word is “ (foreign), which was evaluated by Mr. Yan Dingming who has evaluated several festivals in China. In my opinion, “ (foreign) is not mean to worships foreign affairs, it is a genuine integration of foreign countries. This word is in line with the strategic thinking of "one belt and one road" and the exchange of experts among different countries. Because of the “ (foreign)”, we could see the glorious Mushroom Days, we can truly integrate China's mushroom industry with the experience and lessons of advanced countries in the world, and form our own unique brand.

The second word is " (reality)". In fact, the core content of Mushroom Days in China is not for the purpose of spending money on festivals celebrate with the government and mushroom farmers, but to carry out a real discussion on combining the most advanced technology in the world with our own years of successful experience. With the communication with each other about the achievements we have made in this field in the past year, we are really pushing forward the mushroom industry in China from the technical, scientific and industrial level.

The third word is " (new)". In fact, Chinese Mushroom Days is not only a beacon lamp, which guides the Chinese mushroom industry, but also in line with the national innovation policy environment with its constantly innovating. In fact, from here, we really take the advanced wood rotten fungus strains from Japan, the advanced grass rotten fungus strains from Europe and the United States, as well as the banking, financing, cooking and processing into our industry for the first time. It shows a true portrayal of Chinese mushroom practitioners’ constant pursuit, constant innovation and constant progress.

 It should be said that Chinese mushroom practitioners can truly match the words "foreign, reality and new" because of their truly love of mushroom. Only with this love, they can make the mushroom industry form the old small one into China’s fifth largest agricultural industry. That is including everyone’s hard work and the arrangement of our organizers, especially the careful planning of the local government and management departments. It gives us confidence and determination in how to face the same situations that other countries have experienced in the future. In the past few years, many enterprises have been listed successfully, they have made a lot of money. But there are also many enterprises have lost money because of poor management or the impact of the market. Actually, these are all normal phenomena. We should be clear to see that the only thing we can do is truly firm our loving with this industry, innovate and progress constantly. Under the national policies, especially the “General Health Industry”, “Targeted Poverty Alleviation”, and the “Construction of Beautiful Villages”, we can give full play to the characteristics of this industry, and make a new and more important contribution to our country. I hope that the Chinese Mushroom Days will continue to carry forward the achievements made in the past, and continue to strive for greater victory while summing up experience. I believe that Chinese mushroom industry will be better in the future! Chinese Mushroom Days will be better and better! Thank you!

 


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