Why does agriculture need more scientists who stay close to industry?

Compared with most researchers, Zhang Chunhui's path in scientific research does indeed seem somewhat “unconventional”. Yet it is precisely this “unconventionality” that gave him a comprehensive and deep understanding of China's meat processing industry, and enabled him, after returning to a research institution, to carry out research tackling key problems according to the needs of industrial development, and to make one scientific achievement after another “land and turn into gold”.

For a long time, basic research and production application in China's agricultural research field have been disconnected; scientists did not understand what industry needed, and research projects tackling key problems were too “high-end”, so the conversion rate of agricultural research achievements was low. Zhang Chunhui not only took root in an enterprise for 9 years, but also took the initiative to cooperate with enterprises in research, successfully building a bridge over the gap between basic research and production application. As he himself said, in research fields closely combined with industry, researchers should first become qualified skilled workers, and only then can they grow into scientists needed by industry.

⟦NL> Although only 43 years old, Zhang Chunhui is already an authoritative expert in the field of meat processing. With his dedication to research and his passion for the national industry, he bravely scales the technical heights in the field of meat processing. In fact, whether in the field of meat processing or in other agricultural industry fields, our modern agricultural development needs more scientists like Zhang Chunhui who stay close to industry, truly making the “high-end” agricultural research achievements in the laboratory down-to-earth and wealth-generating.