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On January 23, 2019, Li Tian came to guide students to observe the crop seedling cultivation at Shenyang Agricultural University (Chinese) to guide students to observe the crop seedling cultivation. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Qing
In the winter of 2016, a sunlight greenhouse rose from the ground in Mohe, the northernmost tip of China, at 53 degrees north latitude.
To the north, then to the north… The solar greenhouse technology invented by Li Tianlai, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former vice president of Shenyang Agricultural University, constantly challenges the latitude and temperature limits of vegetable winter planting.
The 18 provinces across the country, with a total of tens of millions of acres – this is the total area of greenhouse vegetables grown based on Li Tianlai’s solar greenhouse technology.
Choose one thing to benefit all living beings. Li Tianlai, 64 years old this year, has written his papers in the fields where he has taken root for many years. As long as he squatted on the seedling bed and the ridges of the fields, he would not care about anything but vegetables in his eyes, as if he had become a statue.
Li Tianlai, who has more than 30 years of party membership, always calls himself the “son of a farmer”. His “greenhouse dream” that he has adhered to for many years has allowed the fruits and vegetables grown in the north to break through the “thousand-year curse” of “relying on the heaven to make a living”, and also paved a way for northern farmers to get rich.
Sugar daddyOn January 23, 2019, Li Tianlai (left) guided students to observe crop seedling cultivation at Shenyang Agricultural University. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Qing
Learn to “talk to vegetables” and end the history of “no vegetables” in the north in winter
In 1985, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
Li Tianlai, who was an assistant professor at Shenyang Agricultural University at that time, went to the Graduate School of Yamagata University in Japan to study horticulture and studied under Professor Takashi Saito. On the first day at Yamagata University, Professor Saito gave him a set of vegetable monographs and wrote on the title page “Vegetables can’t speak, you have to learn to talk to vegetables.”
After studying at Yamagata University for a few years, Professor Yoshio Suzuki of Tsukuba University took the initiative to invite him to further his studies at Tsukuba University.
“Teacher Suzuki, I am ready to return to China.” In 1988, when Li Tianlai received the call for the school’s “return”, he almost did not hesitate and immediately said goodbye to the teacher.
Before the 1980s, due to climatic conditions, the dishes in autumn and winter in northern China were single, basically “three old things” like cabbage, potatoes, and radish. Occasionally, garlic sprouts, dried beans, onions, and carrots were rare items that were only available during the Chinese New Year.
Can this situation be changed? Li Tianlai was eager to apply the knowledge he had learned to the vast land of the motherland so that the people could eat fresh vegetables all year round.
In addition to teaching, Li Tianlai followed Professor Zhang Zhenwu of Shenyang Agricultural University and devoted himself to research on planting vegetable cultivation.
The key to growing vegetables in the north is to spend the winter; the key to spending vegetables lies in the application of greenhouses.
Li Tianlai’s investigation found that most Japanese and European countries use greenhouse technology to achieve an anniversary supply of vegetables. But at that time, greenhouse technology seemed to be “not adaptable to the land” in northern my country –
Previously, greenhouse technology from the Netherlands and other countries had been introduced to the north to achieve temperature control by burning coal and heating water. But Li Tianlai found that in the winter of Northeast China, it is often minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius, and dripping water turns into ice. The coal heating method not only costs a lot, but also has heavy pollution. “One acre of land requires 80 tons of coal in Liaoning in a winter, and 100 tons in Harbin. It can’t be afforded to burn Sugar baby.” Li Tianlai and his team also discussed the solution to heat it with hot spring water, but eventually gave up because of the high cost.
“Vegetables are necessities in people’s lives and cannot be luxury goods.” Promoting energy-saving and economical greenhouse technology so that farmers can use it, afford it, and rely on it has become the focus of Li Tianlai’s team’s research.
October 22, 2018Sugar daddy The sunlight greenhouse (photographed by drone) was taken in Lamatai Village, Yuhong District, Shenyang City on October 22, 2018. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Qing
The sun is the most generous gift of nature. After several research, Li Tianlai targeted “free energy” solar energy, hoping to achieve low temperature and low light through the precise design and calculation of the “three elements” of lighting, insulation and heat storage.Good greenhouse vegetables.
The sunlight greenhouse looks simple, but it is extremely “precise” to design: the shed height, roof angle, wall thickness… Any change in any factor will affect the lighting, heat storage and thermal insulation effects. Li Tianlai and his team have designed, built sheds, inspected and revised again and again, seeking the “optimal solution” of the sunlight greenhouse.
This data on greenhouse insulation ratio is one of the difficulties. If the area covered by the greenhouse is too large and the heat release area increases accordingly, the insulation ratio will be smaller and the insulation effect will be poor in winter. Therefore, the solar greenhouse must not only make the back slope and the back wall have the same insulation performance as the ground, but also make the back slope of the greenhouse appropriately length to ensure that the sunlight in the summer solstice shines on the crops in the rear corner.
In the winter of 1988, 40.85 degrees north latitude and 122.75 degrees east longitude, Haicheng, Liaoning.
The cucumber seedlings in the solar greenhouse are growing gratifyingly. Li Tianlai’s ability to “talk to vegetables” has greatly improved: based on his mastery of light, temperature, environment, nutrition, etc. during individual vegetables cultivation, he can judge the fruit size and harvesting period of different growth days.
Soon after, the first generation of energy-saving sunlight greenhouse was launched in Haicheng, Liaoning. Li Tianlai followed his mentor Professor Zhang Zhenwu to “Research on the Production Technology Development of Fresh Fresh Vegetables in the North” was also successfully completed. This achievement won the second prize of the National Spark Science and Technology Award, and is also an important breakthrough in my country’s solar greenhouse technology.
At this point, the area south of Haicheng, Liaoning has achieved annual production of vegetables without heating, ending the history of “vegetable-free” winter in northern China.
“marching” all the way north to help the “lifeline” of northern vegetables break through the limits
Li Tianlai’s eyes began to focus on the vast land north of Haicheng – breaking through the limits of the “lifeline” of northern vegetables.
As soon as he entered the greenhouse, Li Tianlai was like a magnet installed under his feet, and his whole body was firmly “sucked” on the ridge of the field, stretched his neck, approached the seedlings, and his glasses slid slightly, staring at the seedlings from the upper edge of the glasses and staring at them hard. He squatted in the seedling bed for at least two or three hours, explaining the methods of growing vegetables in the greenhouse, while observing the growth of various vegetables and sorting out the seedlings.
When moving between the seedling beds, Li Tianlai also had his own unique posture: after finishing a seedling bed, he did not stand up, but stuck out his butt and moved to the next seedling bed.
On March 26, 2011, Li Tianlai (second from left) provided technical guidance to farmers in the greenhouse. Xinhua News Agency (Photo provided by Shenyang Agricultural University)
Li Tian squatting next to the small seedlingsCome, it is like a “big seedling” growing from the land. “Sometimes we can’t hold our feet anymore, we stand up and move. When we look back, we see that he is still squatting there.” said Qi Mingfang, professor at the School of Horticulture of Shenyang Agricultural University.
Li Chunfeng, an agricultural promotion researcher at Ningcheng County, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, remembers Li Tianlai’s “squat posture”: “In 2017, T TC:sugarphili200