usatvline Chapter 364 High Yield Rice
Chapter 364 High Yield Rice
The arrival of exchange students did not cause any waves at New Town University.
For these students, the first challenge they face is the language barrier.
Since all courses at New Town University are taught in Chinese, among the first batch of hundreds of exchange students, only students from mainland China were able to quickly engage in learning. The rest of the students, regardless of their majors, had to first participate in the Chinese language courses offered by New Town University.
Only when your Chinese proficiency reaches the required level can you start studying professional courses.
In addition, according to the exchange student policy, the receiving school is obliged to provide living allowance to exchange students.
New Town University is no exception and will provide each exchange student with a living allowance of S$15 per month.
Although Nanhua’s computers and cars cost tens of thousands of yuan, they are high-tech products after all.
In fact, ordinary commodities still maintain a low price level of a few cents or dimes.
SGD 15 is enough to meet the daily food needs of these students, but it is far from enough if they want to buy large items.
This is the most uncomfortable thing for exchange students who come to a new city.
Many of them come from relatively well-off families, but once they arrive in the new city, they are unable to exchange their native currencies into new ones.
Fortunately, the scholarship system established by New Town University is also open to all exchange students.
Every year, New Town University awards New Town Scholarships to the top 10% of students in each major. Each winner will receive a reward of 500 Singapore dollars.
Students who rank in the top 1% will receive the Nanhua Scholarship, with a prize of up to S$1000.
Surprisingly, just one year later, many scholarships went to students from mainland China.
These students were unwilling to use their scholarships for personal consumption, and instead chose to exchange them into mainland currency and mail them back home.
Even a mere 500 Singapore dollars can be exchanged on the black market for nearly mainland currencies.
This was undoubtedly a huge fortune, which made their family well-off instantly.
In mainland China, regardless of family background, most people are actually poor.
These five thousand continental currencies are a huge change for a family.
These students do not need to overcome language barriers because the language and writing of Nanhua are exactly the same as those on the mainland.
Therefore, the enthusiasm for learning among students from the mainland is unimaginable.
This forced New Town University to take measures, requiring that the lights in the exchange students' dormitories must be turned off on time every night. If it weren't for the climate problem in Nanhua, the air conditioner would have to be turned on at night, and New Town University even wanted to cut off their electricity directly.
The reason for doing this is that these mainland students study all night long and only sleep four or five hours a day. If an accident happens, it will be terrible.
Although these students took away a considerable amount of scholarships, it also brought some positive effects.
Their learning attitude inspires local students of Nanhua and forces them to join this fierce competition.
After all, these local students all entered the only university in Nanhua through examinations. They were originally the most outstanding talents in Nanhua. How could they be willing to admit that they could not compare with students from the mainland?
While Western exchange students were still trying to learn Chinese, a competition had quietly begun between mainland students and Nanhua students.
However, this kind of competition is exactly what Newtown University wants to see.
After learning about this situation, Wang Ze decided to add another reward policy:
The first place winner of each major will receive a prize of 5000 SGD provided by the clan association.
It doesn’t matter to Wang Ze who wins the scholarship in the end.
Because in his eyes, it is almost impossible for students from the West to have the opportunity to get this money.
After all, they need to spend at least one year learning Chinese, and the entire exchange student program only lasts two years.
As a result, they only have one year left to study their majors. How can they compete with local students?
However, what Wang Ze did not expect was that just a few years later, when a new batch of exchange students arrived, they spoke Chinese very fluently, and some even spoke it better than the students from the mainland.
Only then did I realize that those students who were interested in coming to the University of South China had already learned Chinese in their own countries. And because of South China's strength in scientific research, universities in various countries have also opened Chinese elective courses.
Faced with this change, Wang Ze ultimately did not change the scholarship.
On the one hand, canceling the policy would seem too targeted, and a mere $5,000 is not worth damaging the reputation of the University of Southern China;
On the other hand, making Chinese an elective course in top universities in other countries is a good thing in itself.
At least in the future these outstanding students will have mastered Chinese, which will make it easier for the University of South China to recruit talent.
Li Wenting taught classes while doing research, and even found several outstanding students in related majors to help her with her research.
After all, it is agriculture, and a lot of work has to be done in the fields personally. Careful observation and recording are required every day. It is too tiring for Li Wenting to do it alone.
It was her research that brought about new breakthroughs.
Nanhua’s newest rice is cultivated through the wood element, and the first generation of rice has achieved an output of 1200 kilograms per mu.
The most important thing is that this kind of rice does not have the defect of high-yield rice that it tastes bad.
The taste is also maintained well with the addition of wood elements.
The second generation of seeds can produce one thousand kilograms per mu without the use of wood elements.
However, if the seeds are saved and replanted, the yield will continue to deteriorate until it reaches a level similar to that of ordinary rice.
Moreover, in tropical areas like Nanhua, this rice can be harvested three times a year.
The success of this research means that Nanhua will no longer have to worry about food shortages from now on.
The current cultivated land in South China alone is enough to feed hundreds of millions of people.
This achievement made Wang Ze look at Li Wenting with admiration, and he personally led the Ministry of Agriculture and senior government officials to inspect the experimental field.
That evening, New Town TV quickly reported this major event.
Under Li Wenting's outstanding leadership, her team successfully achieved the goal of cultivating rice with a yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu.
This amazing achievement not only caused a sensation in Southeast Asia, but also had a profound impact on the world.
Many countries have established contacts with Nanhua, and especially after learning the relevant data in detail, the demand for importing this rice seeds has become more urgent.
Wang Ze was in the mountain base, looking at Li Wenting and asked, "When will we be completely self-sufficient in the extraction of wood elements?"
Wang Ze agreed to export seeds, because in this way, Nanhua would be able to control the grain seeds of other countries in the future, thereby greatly enhancing its international influence.
However, if he relied on himself alone to create the wood element, it would definitely not work.
"We are still in the experimental stage, and we have screened out several varieties with higher content of wood elements." Li Wenting sat nearby, holding the cup in distress and explaining.
Although the wood element has been detected, the content of wood element in most plants is too low, and some are not even worth extracting.
She is working to find ways to increase the wood content of plants, and is also exploring plants that are naturally rich in wood.
Unfortunately, there has been no breakthrough in this work so far.