Recently, the news of a woman named Zhang Wanling, who has been promoting perennial rice in Africa for many years, returning to China to get married in a flash was reported. The news lavishly praised her, calling her “bold and free-spirited, optimistic and fearless of difficulties, pragmatic and capable,” and said she “spread China’s agricultural wisdom on this hot land.” “With her professionalism and enthusiasm, she made African friends feel the warmth of Chinese agricultural technology.” But is it really as the news said, that Zhang Wanling and her colleagues brought Chinese agricultural technology to the fields of Africa, allowing African friends to feel the warmth of Chinese agricultural technology? As a bourgeois intellectual, Zhang Wanling is proficient in English and French, holds a management degree, and her photos in her social circle show a very urban girl temperament. When Huada Company initially wanted to promote perennial rice in Africa, she was “particularly excited” and tried every possible way to recommend herself, claiming that “she believed Africa was mysterious and unique, which stimulated her desire to explore.” But one cannot act without purpose. Zhang Wanling said that Africa stimulated her desire to explore—could it really be just because of Africa’s mysterious and unique natural scenery? In fact, her words are no more than a colonialist attitude, where “mysterious” simply means the African market has yet to be developed. She came to Africa to promote perennial rice with ambitions akin to colonial expansion, praised by local agricultural representatives who said, “We didn’t expect you to work so hard to promote perennial rice.” But this is merely her effort as a business promotion manager to earn higher pay from Huada, and her self-confession fully exposes her selfishness. Zhang Wanling said, “I often feel truly ‘worth it,’ choosing the right track, perennial rice is very suitable for Africa, it requires manual harvesting. Africa has low mechanization and abundant labor resources, so I am very confident in this promotion!”—completely taking the agricultural backwardness caused by imperialist exploitation as an opportunity for her own wealth. But objectively, can the promotion of perennial rice really bring benefits to the African people? Research shows that perennial rice not only has higher yield per mu than average rice but can also be harvested continuously over multiple years after planting, reducing planting costs. For example, in Madagascar, perennial rice yields 2 to 3 times more than local rice. More broadly, by 2024, Zhongxiu has established 24 agricultural technology demonstration centers in Africa, promoting over 300 advanced applicable technologies such as maize planting, vegetable cultivation, and cassava breeding, increasing local crop yields by 30% to 60%. On the surface, Zhongxiu has exported so much technology that the local people’s living standards should have improved significantly. However, as a decayed imperialist country with backward agricultural production and low food self-sufficiency, it relies on plundering the blood and sweat of colonized peoples and importing大量廉价农产品 to maintain its domestic economy. Its promotion of agricultural technology in Africa is merely a way to turn Africa into its supply base for agricultural products, plundering richer resources, as Zhongxiu itself states, “China values importing characteristic products from Africa, maintaining over 10% growth for consecutive years. China has become Africa’s second-largest export destination for agricultural products, with Rwanda’s dried chili and coffee, Kenya’s avocados, and Benin’s pineapples regularly appearing on Chinese tables.” After plundering the wealth of African laborers, Zhongxiu even reverses black and white, claiming that “for many farmers, eating enough is not difficult, so there is no urgent motivation to improve farming techniques.” It also claims to help Africa build a future “world granary,” but it deliberately conceals its plunder of Africa. It is precisely because of imperialist plunder that Africa remains underdeveloped. Instead, it talks about how only prioritizing agricultural development can succeed in economic transformation, undoubtedly aiming to make African countries more compliant as exporters of agricultural products to meet Zhongxiu’s demands. The so-called trade in agricultural products, which is actually plunder, cannot enrich Africa as Zhongxiu claims; only a small clique of comprador officials benefit, while local people’s lives become more difficult as agricultural technology advances and products become cheaper. Engels pointed out: Every progress in production is also a regression in the living conditions of the oppressed classes, the majority of people. In class society, science and technology always serve the interests of a certain class. Under capitalism, the more advanced agricultural technology is, the easier it is for the bourgeoisie to exploit laborers, lowering their living standards. For colonized peoples, this is even more true. Only by overthrowing the existing capitalist system, eliminating the bourgeoisie entrenched over the people, and establishing a government of workers can science and technology truly serve the people and improve their living standards. “我在非洲种水稻，年底回国就闪婚！” 深圳姑娘在非洲“种”水稻_腾讯新闻 南非柑橘、加纳可可、卢旺达辣椒……非洲农产品加速进入中国市场_腾讯新闻 优势明显！我国培育多年生水稻，一年能收获2次，亩产量有多高？|一年生|稻种|种植|野生稻|稻米_网易订阅 特稿｜让中国农业经验落地非洲 https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2024-09-02/doc-incmupaa3836117.shtml 中国助力非洲 打造未来“世界粮仓” _光明网
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