Recently, Liu Ping, Deputy Director of the Center for Science and Technology Development of the Ministry of Agriculture, issued an application notice to the Beijing Ao Ruijin Seed Co., Ltd. for the “Aoyu 3801” variety rights application filed by the company. Followed by. Afterwards, Duan Wude, director of the Ministry of Agriculture Science and Technology Development Center, issued the 10,000th souvenir “prosperous development” tripod to the Division. The applause sounded on the scene, which indicates that China has implemented the "Agricultural Intellectual Property Strategy Outline" three years ahead of schedule. The grand target of "China's application for new varieties of agricultural plant varieties will reach 10,000" by 2015, which has a milestone significance in the history of the protection of new plant varieties in China.

Ma Shuping, deputy director of the Bureau of Seed Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in his speech that in the five years since the 17th National Congress, the number of applications for new varieties of agricultural plants in China reached 5,610, accounting for 56% of the total number of applications for new varieties of agricultural plants in China. In recent years, the average annual number of applications for variety rights in China has reached more than 1,100, and the rankings in the member countries of the International Plant Variety Protection Alliance have entered the top two.

Shi Yanquan, inspector of the Department of Science and Technology Education of the Ministry of Agriculture, pointed out that the number of applications for new varieties of agricultural plants in China exceeded 10,000. This is the result of the leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture who attaches great importance to the work of agricultural intellectual property and does not slouch to support innovation in breeding. It is also a result of agricultural intellectual property rights. The results of people and breeders’ hard work and dedication are also important achievements of the Ministry of Agriculture's implementation of the national IP strategy and agricultural intellectual property strategy outline. Crop seed industry is a national strategic and basic core industry, and it is the fundamental to promote long-term stable development of agriculture and safeguard national food security. We will further implement the spirit of the Party's 18th National Congress, vigorously nurture the right to independent breeds, strengthen the implementation of the intellectual property strategy, and promote innovation in seed industry science and technology so that China can truly realize the transition from a big breeder country to a powerful breeder.

Beijing Ao Ruijin Seed Industry Co., Ltd. is an agricultural biotechnology company integrating modern biotechnology, genetics and breeding, and other high-tech methods to select, produce, process, sell, and provide technical services for new varieties of crops. After 14 years of development, Origen has grown into a Chinese seed industry enterprise with annual sales of 700 million yuan and nearly 1,000 employees. It has more than 100,000 mu of seed breeding base. It has taken the lead in carrying out biotechnology research among domestic seed industry enterprises, establishing China's first life science research center, undertaking a number of major national and provincial science and technology projects, and winning the title of “Enterprise Technology R&D Center” granted by Beijing.