The list of the Top Ten National Farmers for Prosperity through Science and Technology in 2011 is unveiled

On December 3, the "Yongye Life Element Cup - 2011 National Farmers for Prosperity through Science and Technology" publicity and promotion event, hosted by Farmers' Daily, co-organized by the Agriculture Channel of China Central Television, and exclusively supported by Yongye Company, was held at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, where the Top Ten National Farmers for Prosperity through Science and Technology in 2011 were unveiled.

Vice Minister of Agriculture Chen Xiaohua attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He pointed out that the national farmers for prosperity through science and technology not only use their own practical actions to lead their fellow villagers to prosperity and increased income, but also use their spirit to inspire more and more farmers to join the ranks of achieving prosperity through science and technology. He hoped that the prosperity-through-science-and-technology experts would cherish their honor, make persistent efforts, and live up to expectations, displaying their talents in promoting the construction of a new countryside, showing their abilities in leading farmers to prosperity, realizing the value of life in changing the face of rural areas, blazing new paths for farmers' prosperity, and making new contributions to rural development. He hoped that news organizations such as Farmers' Daily would continue to adhere to the good style of staying close to reality, close to life, and close to the masses, carry out the "going, transforming, and improving" activity in depth and persistently, discover and tap typical figures who use science and technology to drive farmers to prosperity while going deep into the rural grassroots, recommend them, and publicize them. In particular, it is necessary to highlight their moving deeds, introduce their typical experience, and carry forward their spirit of the times devoted to the "three rural issues," using advanced models to educate, inspire, and guide people, and actively create a good public opinion atmosphere of caring about agriculture, paying attention to rural areas, and caring for farmers.

Tang Yuanjie, Party Committee Secretary and President of this newspaper, said in his speech that science and technology have become a key factor in promoting the development of modern agriculture, transforming the agricultural development mode, and promoting agricultural efficiency and farmers' income growth. In order to increase publicity for agricultural science and technology knowledge, deeply tap typical examples of becoming prosperous through agricultural science and technology, and give full play to the exemplary and leading role of prosperity-through-science-and-technology experts, Farmers' Daily led the organization of this promotion event. In the future, Farmers' Daily will, as always, hold public welfare activities suitable for farmers' needs and in line with farmers' demands. In accordance with the spirit of "strengthening and improving news and public opinion work" proposed by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Party, it will improve news publicity methods, increase publicity of typical examples, tap and discover typical figures among the farmer masses who increase income and become prosperous, and through extensive publicity and promotion of them, achieve the goal of driving local farmers to become prosperous together.

Yin Chengjie, Vice Chairman of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress; Liang Tiangeng, Member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Director of the Department of Personnel and Labor; Chen Fengxue, Chief Engineer of the State Forestry Administration; Ke Bingsheng, President of China Agricultural University; Zhai Huisheng, Party Secretary of the All-China Journalists Association; Zhang Dexiu, Member of the Editorial Board of People's Daily and Editor-in-Chief of the Overseas Edition; Tuo Zhen, Vice President of Xinhua News Agency; Zhang Xiaoying, Editor-in-Chief of Economic Daily, and others attended the meeting.

The Top Ten National Farmers for Prosperity through Science and Technology in 2011 selected this time are: Shi Guangyin, an expert in desert control and tree planting for prosperity in Dingbian County, Shaanxi; Yan Manchang, a corn-growing expert for prosperity in Xushui County, Hebei; Shi Tuanjie, a crab-farming expert for prosperity in Gaochun County, Jiangsu; Rao Yuqiang, a peach-growing expert for prosperity in Zaoyang City, Hubei; Mai Yilin, a rice-growing expert for prosperity in Shapotou District, Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region; Wu Quanming, a fishery-farming expert for prosperity in Xiantao City, Hubei; Xie Zhengfa, a banana-growing expert for prosperity in Nanjing County, Fujian; Li Shilin, a flower-growing expert for prosperity in Yucheng County, Henan; Wang Li, a frog-farming expert for prosperity in Yuanjiang City, Hunan; and Leng Anbin, a fine-breed goose-farming expert for prosperity in Zhong County, Chongqing.