Chapter 61 Speech (Ch 810274463)

Soon the symposium officially began.
Dong Baicheng, president of Lingnan Fisheries Association, took the stage to speak.
“…I declare that this Lingnan Aquatic Products Industry Symposium has officially begun.”
Snap, snap, snap…
Everyone applauded in unison.
“Now please welcome Li Haiyang, Director of the Fisheries Research Institute of Lingnan Agricultural Research Institute, to the stage to host this symposium. Please welcome him with applause!”
Snap, snap, snap…
Warm applause rang out again.
After Li Haiyang, who has a Mediterranean hairstyle, came on stage, he spoke about procedural content for more than ten minutes before getting to the point: “Now let’s discuss the increase and decrease of the marine life protection list in Lingnan this year. First of all, there is no need to discuss the three marine life that were newly included in the protection list by the country last year. They will be directly added to the marine life protection list in Lingnan.”
He had been speaking on the stage for more than ten minutes.
Hu Fei, who was sitting next to Jiang Miao in the audience, reminded him quietly, “Boss Jiang, you will be speaking later.”
“…Because the artificial propagation technology of eels has achieved a breakthrough, we need to discuss whether wild eels should continue to be included in the protection list. Mr. Jiang Miao, the founder of Hailufeng Agricultural Technology Company and the inventor of artificial propagation technology for eels, is invited to give a speech. Please welcome him with applause!”
Snap, snap, snap…
Amidst warm applause, Jiang Miao walked up to the podium.
Jiang Miao approached the microphone and said, “Hello everyone, I am Jiang Miao. Next, I will explain to you the artificial breeding technology of eels.”
“The artificial breeding technology developed by our company has already reached a monthly production of about 60 million eels, or about 6 tons of glass eels per month, and about 72 tons per year;”
“With the addition of Japan’s Kagoshima Eel Company and Gaul Brown Company, which have already obtained technology licenses, it is expected that the annual production of glass eels will soon exceed 200 tons.”
“Therefore, artificially bred eel fry can basically replace wild eel fry. This is a basically certain trend.”
However, Jiang Miao changed the subject: “But I personally am not optimistic about the recovery speed of wild eel populations. This is a conclusion drawn based on the current fishing intensity around the world.”
“In particular, Western Europe has a habit of cooking glass eels directly, which has kept the price of glass eels high. Even if our company, together with the other two companies, fully supplies glass eels, there is still no way to reduce the price of glass eels in Western Europe to a low-profit state.”
“Since there is a high profit margin, the fishing of wild eel fry will not be curbed unless it becomes unprofitable.”
Everyone in the audience nodded involuntarily.
The world is bustling with people all because of profit, and the world is bustling with people all because of profit. This is an eternal truth.
“Therefore, I personally think that it will take time to remove wild eels from the protection list. This time period is at least 10 years. If the wild eel population recovers well after 10 years, then we can consider removing wild eels from the protection list.”
“This concludes my speech, thank you everyone!”
Clap, clap, clap…everyone applauded again.
Soon Li Haiyang took the stage again: “Mr. Jiang’s speech just now was very insightful. The overall opinion of our institute is to keep wild eels on the protection list and observe them for about 10 years.”
Obviously, before Jiang Miao spoke just now, he had already discussed some details with the people from the Fisheries Research Institute.
Immediately afterwards, several other relevant people took the stage to speak. Everyone had similar ideas, which was to maintain the status quo and continue to observe.
After more than an hour, the discussion on adding or removing items from the protection list ended.
The symposium entered the next topic, which was to discuss the current situation and future of the aquatic industry.
Jiang Miao was invited up again.
However, this time, a total of 10 industry-related entrepreneurs and 5 aquaculture experts were invited to the stage to discuss together.
The host also became Dong Baicheng, the president of the Fisheries Association.
Dong Baicheng took the microphone and said: “In recent years, the aquaculture industry in Lingnan and even across the country has developed steadily and improved overall, but there are still many problems.”
“For example, the high price of fish feed has reduced the overall net profit of fish farmers, which has led to a decline in enthusiasm for farming;”
“The situation of veterinary drug residues in aquatic products, especially some small farmers, are extremely irregular in the use of veterinary drugs, resulting in excessive veterinary drug residues in aquatic products;”
“The impact of extreme weather. Last year, some farms suffered a significant reduction in production due to high temperatures.
“The quality of aquatic products sold online is generally uneven, which has had a negative impact on the reputation of some aquatic products.”
“…”
Everyone also expressed their opinions and suggestions.
Since the atmosphere of this kind of symposium is relatively serious, there will naturally not be any talk show remarks such as face-slapping, sarcastic remarks, etc.
Jiang Miao also expressed some of his own views and suggestions.
“I think among the challenges currently facing the aquaculture industry, the impact of rising fish feed prices is very large. Farmers are basically in a state of little profit or even loss, which is extremely detrimental to the healthy development of the aquaculture industry.”
Dong Baicheng smiled and asked, “I heard that Mr. Jiang is planning to build his own feed factory to produce fish feed in order to cope with the rising price of fish feed?”
Jiang Miao nodded: “Yes, I am currently studying how to produce fish feed at low cost. This topic is very important and is related to the future development strategy of our company.”
“Building your own feed factory has its pros and cons, but given the current market conditions, it is also a helpless choice,” echoed another industry boss.
Others have shown more or less signs of wanting to build their own feed mills.
Of course, Jiang Miao knew that these people were just putting on a show, and it was more likely that they deliberately spread false information through this symposium to put some pressure on several large domestic feed factories and get fish feed at a lower price.
Dong Baicheng also responded with a smile, then changed the subject: “What other opinions do you have about the future of aquaculture? Everyone should speak freely!”
“Our company is optimistic about the combination of wind power generation and aquaculture.” Gu Haijing shared some of his ideas.
“In fact, special breeding also has great potential, such as breeding crocodiles, breeding osmanthus cicadas, breeding horseshoe crabs and so on.”
Jiang Miao listened to the opinions of the leaders in various industries, but he did not continue to speak. After all, it is not good to be too much in the spotlight.
Of course, if he is asked occasionally, he will answer with a sentence or two.
Before I knew it, the morning had passed.
Dong Baicheng announced a three-hour recess and the second half would continue at 2:30 p.m.
Jiang Miao was just about to leave.
I was stopped by a boss.
“Boss Jiang, how about having lunch at noon?”
“Boss Du, what’s the matter?”
President Du smiled helplessly and said, “I won’t hide it from President Jiang. I just heard that President Jiang is interested in building his own feed factory. I have a business deal to discuss with President Jiang.”
“Oh? Then let’s find a restaurant nearby! We can eat and talk at the same time.”
“Okay.” President Du turned around and told his secretary, “Go to Jinhe Peninsula Garden Restaurant and book a private room.”
His secretary picked up the phone and started to book a room: “Okay, Mr. Du.”
President Du looked at Jiang Miao again: “Has President Jiang driven?”
“My driver is coming over.”
“Then let’s meet at the Jinhe Peninsula in Yangcheng International Financial City.”
“Can.”
Jiang Miao held Shuya’s hand, and Li Zixuan followed behind, walking towards the entrance of the college.
Ke Yong and An Ning had already gone to drive in advance.
While waiting for Jiang Miao and others to walk out of the gate of the Ocean College, they saw Ke Yong waving at them.
After a while, two pickup trucks drove away towards the financial city.