a Xinhua view
a person's life, what can be recorded to the peak?
at the north slope of more than 6000 meters above sea level, he climbed to the highest height of the botanist's sampling;
a common seed, how much light can it bring for the future of the nation?
16 traveled more than 500 thousand kilometers per year, more than 100 days a year in the most remote, the most desolate, the most difficult place to shuttle.
he led the team to collect 40 million seeds and inventory the biological home of the roof of the world.
2017 September 25th, Zhong Yang, a famous botanist and professor of life science at the Fudan University, suffered an accident on a business trip to Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and the life of the 53 year old stopped abruptly.
"every life has its end, but I am not afraid, because my students will continue the path of scientific exploration." The words once said by Zhong Yang are still in the ear.
from the northern Tibetan Plateau to the Zangnan Valley, from Ali no man's land to the Yarlung Zangbo River, we walked into Chung Yang's wonderful life.
"a gene can change the destiny of a country, and a seed can change the future of a nation." The summit of Botany, because he has a unique "seed view" and "seed dream"
this is Zhong Yang collecting seeds (outdoor photos) outside Tibet. Xinhua News Community
plants have spirit.
behind the Piedmont, there are thousands of years old vegetation.
all plants and trees have their own height and toughness.
on the Tibetan Plateau, torrential rain storms alternate, and thin air looks at every field worker. However, on countless unknown snowy mountains, thousands of plants have the "memory" of such a figure -
forty or fifty - degree steep slope, a stature man is climbing hard, the face is blinked, and the jeans and the shirt are splashed with mud.
the vertical elevation difference of the Tibetan Plateau is at least 500 meters, and 1000 meters back and forth. Mountain climbing on the plateau is no more than Flatland, and every step of the mountain above 4000 meters above sea level seems to be exhausting, but he always walks in front of a group of young people.
he is Zhong Yang.
2018 03, 03 month 26, Xinhua view
2011 year in June, in the elevation of 6000 meters above the north slope of Mount Qomolangma, Zhong Yang led the team to the high mountain snow lotus, climbing to the Chinese botanists to sample the highest height.
for this moment, Zhong Yang has been brewing for ten years.
2001, Zhong Yang for the first time to go to Tibet. Some people do not understand: Why did a famous scholar of Fudan University run to the frontier for scientific research?
originally, Zhong Yang is becoming more and more aware of the work in the reconstruction of ecology at Fudan University that many species are disappearing. Preserving germplasm resources as a basic and strategic work is of great significance to national development and human fate.
Zhong Yang aimed at one place: Tibet - there are nearly 6000 species of higher plants, but no one has ever done a thorough inventory and seed collection.
"a gene can change the destiny of a country, and a seed can change the future of a nation."
this is the "seed view" of Zhong Yang.
"it was assumed that there was a plant for cancer in Tibet more than 100 years later, but more than 100 years ago I had collected 5000 seeds and put the seeds in a jar. When the descendants take out seeds, even if only 500 grains can live and 50 seeds can seed, will the plant recover? "
this is the "seed dream" of Zhong Yang.
this dream is chased for 16 years.