Academician Wu Mingzhu: A Pearl in Turpan Basin

"The best thing in life is that everything you create can serve the people
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"The pollination of melon melon .
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A 91-year-old lady suddenly mumbled before going out
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This old man is Wu Mingzhu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering who pioneered the breeding of melons and watermelons in Xinjiang
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Recently, the topic "Chinese people can eat such a sweet melon can't do without this grandma" has topped the hot search list, with more than 730 million views on the Internet
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Back to the May 1st Labor Day in 1953, in the school auditorium of Chongqing Southwest Agricultural College, a round-faced, big-eyed Wuhan girl raised her right fist and swore an oath to the teachers and students of the school because she performed well in all aspects during her university.
Wu Mingzhu honor to join the Chinese communist Party , became the first batch of students of Southwest Agricultural College to join the party of party members
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As the first batch of college students in New China, in those passionate years, Wu Mingzhu cut off her long hair and jumped into the experimental field to sow and fertilize with the boys
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Among Wu Mingzhu's classmates was Yuan Longping, who later became the "father of hybrid rice", and she was called the "Queen of Chinese Melon
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Turpan is known as the "Fire Island".
It is common for summer temperatures to exceed 40 degrees Celsius
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Hearing that there is a good quality melon in Dikaner Township, Wu Mingzhu and his colleagues went through the Gobi to find it
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At the end of 1962, Wu Mingzhu and his colleagues collected all the local melon varieties in Turpan, and systematically bred the red heart crisp, fragrant pear yellow, Xiaoqingpi and other varieties to help the local melon farmers grow melons
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However, local farmers are accustomed to folk cultivation methods, and are not optimistic about the modern technology of melon growing in Wu Mingzhu's mouth
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Wu Mingzhu opened 3 acres of wasteland to grow melons on the opposite side of Papa Mosha, a local expert in growing melons
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In the autumn, Wu Mingzhu's melons are big and sweet, and the melon fields are stepped on a path by fellow villagers who came to see the melons
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Since then, science and technology have come to fruition in the melon fields of Xinjiang
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She cultivated early, mid- and late-maturing varieties of melons.
The planting area once covered 80% of the main commercial melon producing areas in Xinjiang.
A group of melon-making rich villages emerged in Turpan, Shanshan County and other places
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Until 2017, the 87-year-old Wu Mingzhu reluctantly put down his work
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For more than 60 years, Wu Mingzhu has cultivated more than 30 varieties, dedicated the sweetness of melons to the people, and promoted the melon series with Chinese characteristics and a complete breeding innovation system to the world.
She is known as "a pearl in the Turpan Basin"
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Daughter Yang Xia said: "This is my mother.
She is the epitome of that generation of young people who went to Xinjiang who dedicated their lives to the motherland without complaints and regrets
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(Our reporter Yuan Yufei)