Recently, the China General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) announced its 2022 Science and Technology Award. The project Integration and Application Demonstration of Key Technologies for Quality and Efficiency Improvement of Buckwheat Industry led by Chengdu University (CDU) and jointly completed by China Agricultural University (CAU), Jilin Baicheng Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guizhou Normal University and other organizations won the special prize of the National Commercial Science and Technology Progress Award. Professors Zhao Gang, Zou Liang and Xiang Dabing from the Key Laboratory of Coarse Cereals Processing of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs are the main accomplishers of the project.

Joint research has been carried out on the whole industry chain of buckwheat, including publishing 220 papers and 6 monographs; 32 invention patents, 30 utility model patents and 4 computer software copyrights have been authorized; 15 new varieties have been cultivated, 5 industrial and local standards have been formulated, 1 main technology promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has been developed, and 8 organic buckwheat bases have been established. The overall research of the project has taken a leading role worldwide since it has innovated the R&D model of the whole industrial chain buckwheat, which features developing buckwheat seeds with high seed setting rate and flavone content, and promoting the integration of buckwheat-growers, the government, and enterprises. This innovative mode has been widely promoted and applied in buckwheat-producing areas nationwide, and relevant achievements have been successfully made in more than 30 well-known enterprises in China, producing significant economic and social benefits for improving agricultural industrialization in remote alpine areas in China.

It is reported that the CGCC Science and Technology Award is an award approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China and the National Office for Science & Technology Awards. As the nominator of the State Science and Technology Award, CGCC will select the candidates for the State Science and Technology Award for review from the projects that have won the special prize of the National Commercial Science and Technology Progress Award every year.

Attachment: Announcement on the Project to be Awarded the 2022 China General Chamber of Commerce Science and Technology Award https://www.cgcc.org.cn/tzgg/2/52186.html.