< p > January 11th, the Ministry of Agriculture issued a notice on the official website, and approved the "transgenic cotton seed production license" of 2 enterprises of Beijing Origin Seed Technology Inc and Henan Jinke Chuang century Seed Industry Co., Ltd. In the context of the public's general concern about the safety of genetically modified foods, the a href= "http://m.pmae.cn/news/index_c.asp", "cotton < /a", as a non food source, has obtained much less attention from the Ministry of agriculture. < /p >
< p > in recent years, the research of transgenic technology has become a hot spot in biotechnology at home and abroad. Many experts still hold different views on the safety of genetically modified foods. But their consensus is that before the commercialization of GM varieties, the state needs to pass strict environmental safety and food safety evaluation. After confirming the innocuous assessment, genetically modified seeds or foods can only be put into < a href= "http://m.pmae.cn/news/index_s.asp > market < /a >. < /p >
At present, China's scientific research institutes have made breakthroughs in the research of genetically modified cotton, ranking the world's leading level in the world, and have independent intellectual property rights such as international invention patents and so on. P < /p >
< p > the director of the Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, < a href= "http://m.pmae.cn/pioneer/" > Yu Shu Xiao < /a > pointed out that if China's cotton can be spun up from the present 32 yarn to 60 spinning yarn, the cotton yarn and its processed products will be raised and the price will increase by 50%, which is of great significance to comprehensively enhance the international competitiveness of China's entire cotton industry chain. < /p >
< p > in recent years, the second generation transgenic technology, which aims at improving fiber quality, increasing crop yield and enhancing stress resistance, has become a hot spot in the world's scientific research. < /p >
Li Jiayang, vice president of the Ministry of agriculture and President of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that the two chronic diseases that have long troubled the development of China's cotton industry are diseases and insect pests and low fiber quality. So far, transgenic insect resistant cotton is still the largest transgenic crop in China. < /p >
< p > experts believe that the breakthrough of the second generation transgenic cotton fiber research has laid a solid foundation for getting rid of the long term dependence on imports of high-end cotton. This is another important scientific and technological achievement in our high-tech field after the transgenic insect resistant cotton. < /p >
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< p > transgenic technology is a biotechnology developed in the 80s of last century. In recent years, the breakthroughs and applications of transgenic technology have triggered a new wave of green revolution. {page_break} < /p >
< p > Wang Feng, a researcher at the Institute of rice research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told reporters that the 1 million 700 thousand hectares of genetically modified crops in the world started from the industrialization in 1996, rapidly developing to 148 million hectares in 2011, and increased 87 times in 15 years. Among them, the largest planting area is the United States, and genetically modified crops have reached 66 million 800 thousand hectares. Many multinational companies have turned their targets to the research and development of genetically modified crops, making the industry develop rapidly worldwide. The core technology has become the "fastest adoption technology in agricultural history". < /p >
< p > Wang Feng believes that China, as a large population country, is using the 1/7 cultivated land in the world to feed the world's 1/4 population. With the increase of abnormal climate in the world, high and low temperature and diseases and insect pests, and the increasingly serious pollution of agricultural ecological environment, in the long run, it is necessary to solve the problems of Chinese people's sustainable development of food and agriculture, and the application of biotechnology and the development of bio seed industry. Therefore, the prospect of GM food research is very broad. < /p >
< p > China must intensify its efforts to actively and steadily push forward the research and development of transgenic biotechnology. On the one hand, we must grasp the research and development of new transgenic technology and new products. On the other hand, we must pay close attention to the systematic evaluation of the environmental safety and food safety of genetically modified products, and make transgenic technology and products contribute to the development of China's social economy on the basis of science and safety. < /p >
< p > as a new technology, the research of scientists should develop towards the advantages and disadvantages. For instance, scientists are developing transgenic insect resistant Bt genes in insect resistant transgenic rice only in plant stem and leaf organs, rather than in grains or grains, so that the safety of transgenic rice is greatly improved. < /p >
< p > "at present, the positive publicity of transgenic technology in China is not enough." Wang Feng pointed out that from a scientific point of view, we should take an objective and impartial view of the relevant basic knowledge of genetically modified new technologies and genetically modified products, so that people can have a correct understanding and rational judgement of transgenic technology and products. Genetically modified foods should not be simply identified as harmful or harmless. Some transgenic varieties are transferred to genes that increase crop yields and improve quality. As such genes often do not produce harmful and allergic substances to themselves, we can initially predict that these GM foods may be harmless genes. < /p >
< p > Wang Feng believes that before the commercialization of GM varieties, the state must undergo strict environmental safety and food safety evaluation, and the GM food will be put into the market if the evaluation is confirmed innocuous. Therefore, whether genetically modified food is harmful must be determined according to the specific circumstances, and can not be simply concluded. < /p >