Tang Huajun, President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said on Friday that the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences will focus on the frontier areas of the basic research on the basis of agricultural development and application in the future, focus on the common key technologies and "neck sticking" technologies of the whole industrial chain of important agricultural products such as grain, cotton, meat and egg milk, and cultivate a number of leading talents.

On the same day, at the fourth talent work meeting of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, Tang said that China will enter a new stage of development, with high-quality development becoming the main theme. However, China's agriculture is facing the difficulties of tight resource and environment constraints, extensive development mode, transformation of development power and insufficient supply of scientific and technological innovation achievements.

"At present, China has a high dependence on seeds abroad, and the level of single yield of grain crops has entered a lingering period. Major biological safety incidents such as swine fever in Africa, Spodoptera in grassland occur frequently, and non-point source pollution in agriculture and heavy metal pollution in cultivated land are serious in some areas." "The common key technologies and" neck clamping "technologies in major fields such as domestic production of fine breeds of livestock and poultry, prevention and control of major animal epidemics, and research and development of intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment still need to be broken through, and corresponding agricultural science and technology talents are urgently needed

Tang Huajun believes that there are some problems in the past talent training of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, such as the imbalance of the structure of talents among disciplines, the lack of close combination of talent training, use, allocation and major scientific research tasks.

"At present, 66% of the leading talents are concentrated in four advantageous disciplines, namely crop, animal husbandry, plant protection, resources and environment. The number of high-level talents in traditional disciplines such as agricultural machinery, agricultural engineering, economic information is insufficient, and the talent layout of emerging interdisciplinary disciplines such as artificial intelligence breeding, nanomaterial technology and energy and microorganism is obviously insufficient." He said that the next step is to accurately introduce talents according to the layout of innovation chain and industrial chain, and realize the precise cultivation of talents and efficient allocation of science and technology resources.

In terms of talent training, Tang Huajun believes that the use of talent training and utilization should be planned and overall with major scientific research layout, implementation of major scientific and technological tasks, and construction of major innovation platform. Meanwhile, the international talent training plan shall be implemented, and scientific research and management personnel in key fields shall be selected to carry out cooperative research and learning exchanges in world-class scientific research institutes, and the internationalization level shall be accelerated.

During the 14th five year plan, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences should integrate and optimize the project, platform, funds, posts and other high-quality resources, create a system and policy environment conducive to the development of talents, cultivate strategic scientific and technological talents with international level, ensure the national food security and people's life health, and help the Rural Revitalization and agricultural rural modernization construction.