Agricultural Research Institute under the New Province Construction Corps.
The long-staple cotton research group led by Comrade Cheng Lishun.
According to the information provided by the fat man, although these long-staple cotton researchers are researching cotton and have developed the latest varieties of long-staple cotton, there is very little cotton in the jackets they wear.
Whatever extra money the New Province Construction Corps gave them was secretly invested in cotton research and development.
Zhang Hongcheng was well aware that with the advancement of reform and opening up, my country was vigorously promoting the development of the petrochemical and cotton textile industries. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, the biggest constraint on the development of our cotton textile industry was cotton production.
Although the military and marine products produced by Cheng Lishun's team were better than a certain type of Egyptian long-staple cotton, they had missed the period of major economic layout in the early 1980s.
The problem of cotton shortage has been a constant throughout the country's economic history in the 1980s and 1990s.
Zhang Hongcheng and Fatty had the same idea: Cheng Lishun's team must come up with a mature and popularizable Junhai long-staple cotton variety in the early 1980s.
If the domestic supply of long-staple cotton can be one or two steps higher than in history, the pricing power of raw materials will not be controlled by external capital.
Then the trend of smashing spindles and laying off textile workers in the textile industry across the country in the late 1990s would definitely not be so tragic.
Zhang Hongcheng chose to take out 50,000 yuan without hesitation to support Cheng Lishun's team at the Agricultural Science Institute under the Xin Province Construction Corps to continue researching the latest Junhai long-staple cotton varieties.
It was not until 1982 that Cheng Lishun finally got the opportunity to visit Egypt, and it took him several more years to develop a better variety of long-staple cotton than Egyptian cotton.
Before this, the best long-staple cotton variety in the country had an output of only more than 40 kilograms per mu, while the Egyptian variety at that time had a yield three times that of the domestic variety and was of better quality!
"The Cotton Team?"
Minister Li was just slightly stunned when he heard Zhang Hongcheng's answer.
He originally thought that Zhang Hongcheng would perfunctorily give a unit that did not require such a large investment.
But he didn't expect that Xiao Zhang actually wanted to do something practical.
Cotton is indeed a good thing, especially for their Northeast Construction Corps.
But he also heard that Cheng Guo Lishun's group was a money-eating beast!
The leaders of the New Province Construction Corps loved and hated him.
"Okay! Cotton is cotton, but I wonder how long it will take and how much it will cost to come up with a new variety?"
Minister Li thought that the matter had come to an end and would not disturb Zhang Hongcheng's "rest" any longer.
But what he didn't know was that Zhang Hongcheng had already begun dragging his "sick body" and entrusting Miao Jiaxin and Chief Luo, who were still in Huacheng, to help him look for merchants from Egypt.
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