Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Enrich breeding research and development germplasm resources base, accelerate breeding breakthroughs of new varieties.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has issued several measures on strengthening the full chain management of crop varieties, focusing on accelerating the improvement and utilization of germplasm resources, advancing breeding innovation, regulating variety trials, strict approval of varieties, enhancing variety tracking evaluation and withdrawal mechanisms, and strengthening protection of variety intellectual property rights, proposing 20 specific measures. The "Measures" propose the collection and introduction of germplasm resources. Normalized collection of germplasm resources, accelerating the collection and cataloging of resources in the third nationwide survey. Speed up the introduction of high-oil, high-yield soybeans, disease and stress-resistant corn, high-quality disease-resistant wheat, sugar crops, specialty greenhouse vegetables, and tropical crops to enrich the breeding research and development germplasm resource base. Accelerate the breeding of breakthrough new varieties. Coordinate the promotion of major agricultural science and technology projects, continue to carry out joint breeding efforts, focus on increasing the single crop yield of grains and oil crops and urgently needed by the industry, and accelerate the breeding of breakthrough excellent varieties. Optimize the evaluation mechanism of scientific research and breeding achievements, improve project acceptance management measures, and emphasize the assessment of variety originality, innovation, and practicality.