If you are one of those who learn Chinese in China, you may know a beautiful place named Qiao Jia County in the city of Zhao Tong in Yunnan province. It is said by the National Nature Reserve Administration of Yunnan Qiao Jia Medicine Mountain that after 14 years artificial breed, the local administration has successfully reproduced 5,000 nursery stocks of five- needle pine.
As is known to all people, including those who learn Mandarin in China, that five- needle pine is generally recognized as “panda in plant kingdom”, which means five- needle pine is rare and precious among all plant species. There are only about 34 five- needle pines around the whole world. They are preciously treasured by all countries in the globe.
The basic information of Yunnan Qiao Jia Medicine Mountain National Nature Reserve should be talked about in your courses when you study Chinese in Yunnan province. There are about 2,366 species of higher plants in the natural reserve, 856 kinds of medicine plants and 265 terrestrial vertebrates in Yunnan Qiao Jia Medicine Mountain National Nature Reserve.
Five- needle pine discovered in 1992 belongs to national first- level protective plants. Five- needle pine is also listed into the world’s most endangered plants, and you will know these if you focus on some news about plants protection while you study in China. There are only about 34 five- needle pines around the world. Yunnan Qiao Jia Medicine Mountain National Nature Reserve is famous for the last few of those five- needle pines, and five- needle pines can be called as “panda in plant kingdom” because they are as precious and endangered as pandas.
Other information about those five- needle pines in Qiao Jia Medicine Mountain National Nature Reserve should be covered in your summer program in China, they distribute mainly in two areas in southeast part of Qiao Jia County, which are Bao Jia Bay of Fu Shan Village in Zhong Zhai Town and Yang Jia Wan Village in Bai He Yan Town.
If you spend a Summer in China, you would know more about the Qiao Jia Medicine Mountain National Nature Reserve. Staff members from the administration of Qiao Jia Medicine Mountain National Nature Reserve put all their hearts into the researching and cultivating work of five- needle pines, and they finally successfully reproduce 5,000 nursery stocks of five- needle pine that are planted in a large land of 56.2 mu.
Wu Ming Zhong, from the administration of Qiao Jia Medicine Mountain National Nature Reserve, gives further introduction to those foreign students who take HSK preparation program in China. He said, “Those 5,000 nursery stocks of five- needle pine have been growing very well, and the success of cultivating them helps us find a new way of artificial cultivation breeding. It is also important to the better protection of native plants community and restoring species.”
Yang Jia Wan management director and senior engineer Zhang Tian Bi introduced to foreign workers who were in internships in China that in recent years, management administration have worked hard to carry out comprehensive management and monitoring work in the nursery field, and we have always put nature into our first consideration.
He added, “We regularly spray agricultural medicines and pesticides on those nursery stocks of five- needle pine, and the disinfection and preventive measures are taken to make sure that we have a good environment for those nursery stocks of five- needle pine to grow up.” volunteer program in China will also show you that staff members from the management office have artificially bred nursery stocks and developed new planting field near the originally existed five- needle pines.
For those who study Mandarin Chinese in Yunnan province, they will also learn that the already exited 34 five- needle pines in Qiao Jia County cannot bear seeds every year. Sometimes there are about 200 buds and every bud has 20 to 30 seeds, but only 70 percent of them can finally grow into nursery stocks. Since 1997, staff members from Qiao Jia Medicine Mountain National Nature Reserve have been working hard on researching and discovering new ways of cultivating more nursery stocks. They have successfully cultivated 5000 nursery stocks of five- needle pines in 2011, and it is really a hard and arduous job.