- 04/07/2025
The documentary "Chinese Juncao" takes an international perspective on global governance issues and introduces the viewpoints of others with an objective stance，focuses on the process and development status of the "small and beautiful" Chinese Juncao technology that has taken root and thrived overseas，and demonstrates the positive contribution of China's to global poverty alleviation and sustainable development through realistically recording the individual stories of local people who rely on Chinese Juncao technology to escape from poverty, actively start their own businesses, and change their destinies.
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00:00Satsang with Mooji
02:00A batch of fresh mushrooms air freighted from the Eastern Highlands province is now on sale
02:11at a large supermarket in the capital of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby.
02:17Soon, they will grace the dining tables of the city's residents.
02:28Port Moresby also has a well-regarded restaurant that features mushrooms as its signature dish.
02:46Local shrimp paired with domestically grown oyster mushrooms make for a novel delight.
02:52This now common sight was unimaginable in the past.
03:08Mushrooms used to mysteriously appear only in Papua's moist forests after rain.
03:20They were largely seen as poisonous in local traditions.
03:37Now, artificially cultivated mushrooms have been around in Papua New Guinea for over a quarter of a century.
03:46And the person who introduced the technology to the country is affectionately known as mushroom man.
03:53I'm known as mushroom man, you know, everywhere here in Chimbul, in Moresby as well.
04:05So I knew in my heart this project is a tool. It's a weapon.
04:09It can fight a lot of things that are associated with life, you know, like poverty and unemployment and nutrition and all these things.
04:18So right now, I'm feeling excited now to see a lot of things that's happening.
04:2253-year-old Brian Waiyi is actively involved in the establishment of the China Papua New Guinea Agricultural Industrial Park,
04:31formerly the Deputy Administrator of the Eastern Highlands Province.
04:35He has witnessed the development of the China PNG friendship and the significant changes in his homeland for over two decades.
04:43The agricultural park, for me, is an answer to agricultural industrialization that will accommodate all our industrial settings in there,
04:54including office and then growings and, you know, all those things, breeding, all this.
05:00So we have a hard tool that we will totally free to operate according to our Hindirup community,
05:03you know, given the political team, it is an expurpate area as well as the parts of the Chinese government.
05:12Okay, thisbaum is for you.
05:15Okay, thisbaum is for you.
05:17Okay, this one for you.
05:20Juxy, boy.
05:21Oh, that's Professor, Juxy.
05:22Oh, that's Professor, there.
05:24This is my teacher, my teacher, this one.
05:27Professor Lee.
05:28All these changes were brought about by an amazing technology, after which Wai'i's son
05:36was named.
05:37In 1995, at the age of 24, Wai'i became the only Papua New Guinean student accepted into
05:45a United Nations development program training program.
05:49He participated in the first international Junsao technology training seminar held China's
05:54Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University.
05:58In just a few lessons, Wai's perception of mushrooms was dramatically changed.
06:05He had never imagined that these small organisms, only occasionally emerging in forests after
06:12rain, could be cultivated artificially on a large scale.
06:17This realization made him think of his homeland.
06:22Poverty was really high.
06:24People were living on the poverty lines.
06:27And the only crop they depend on is coffee.
06:32But coffee comes in every six months.
06:34The astute Wai'i immediately realized that cultivating mushrooms alongside coffee could significantly
06:41increase people's incomes.
06:42The only thing that I want to find was two things.
06:48One, Professor Lin.
06:49That's one.
06:50That's one.
06:51And two is the substrate, the lindgrass.
06:56Professor Linzhan Shi is the chief scientist at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University.
07:03He invented the Junsao technology, using grass instead of wood to cultivate edible fungi.
07:10Edible fungi, commonly known as mushrooms, require organic matter from their surroundings to grow.
07:17Initially, wood was often used as a raw material, but excessive logging was often used as a raw material, but excessive logging frequently used as a raw material.
07:32So Linzhan Shi turned to ecological destruction.
07:51So Linzhan Shi turned to grasses, alternatives rich in nutrients, but with much shorter growth cycles.
07:59In 1986, Linzhan Shi cultivated the first grass-grown shiitake mushroom, using wild grasses such as forked fern and Pacific Island silver grass as substrates.
08:25Thanks to the diligent research of Linzhan Shi and his team, nearly 50 species of herbaceous plants can now be used to cultivate edible and medicinal fungi, collectively known as Junsao.
08:53Junsao.
08:54After being crushed, Junsao is mixed with other materials, bagged, inoculated and incubated to create mushroom substrate packs for growing edible fungi.
09:06Once farmers receive these packs, they simply need to tend them under suitable temperature and humidity conditions to receive a good harvest of mushrooms.
09:18After its invention, Junsao technology was promoted as a model for poverty alleviation in China, achieving great success.
09:25Junsao.
09:26Junsao.
09:27Junsao.
09:28Junsao.
09:29Junsao.
09:30Junsao.
09:31Junsao.
09:32Junsao.
09:33Junsao.
09:34Junsao.
09:35Junsao.
09:36Junsao.
09:37Junsao.
09:38Junsao.
09:39Junsao.
09:40Junsao.
09:41Junsao.
09:42The answer was yes.
09:45That year, the first international Junsao
09:48technology training seminar for developing countries
09:51was launched, and Wai participated in it.
09:55For Papua New Guinea, we are blessed with a lot of good soil,
09:59temperature, rainfall, and everything is nice.
10:03And it's very conducive.
10:04Agrocautia is our background.
10:07Wai was confident about the future.
10:10However, as the training neared its end,
10:12he felt a bit uneasy.
10:16I want my country to be the first country to be tested.
10:20Competition will be there.
10:21So I got scared.
10:22Otherwise, these guys were advanced,
10:24so they might take the technology over to their place.
10:26So I must find a secret time.
10:30To gain a head start, Wai avoided the noisy classroom
10:34and arranged a rooftop meeting with Professor Lin
10:36to lay out his thoughts.
10:40Professor was very cool and nice.
10:42And he was listening, oh, OK, OK, OK, OK.
10:44And he was just going, OK, OK.
10:46But because he was cool, and he said, OK,
10:48was not that serious enough.
10:50I thought he was like, OK, let's do it.
10:52We sent Brian White to China, and he learned some very
11:01important concepts and the technology in China.
11:04When he came back, he told us, this is very exciting,
11:08and we need to start the project.
11:12In the summer of 2023, a remote mountain village in Papua,
11:18New Guinea came alive with the latest PMG training course
11:23of China-aid juncao and upland rice project.
11:27After five times, you know, all the .
11:33Lin Yingxing, a technical expert from China,
11:36was explaining how to grow tasty mushrooms using juncao.
11:40By the time, nearly 27 years had passed since Chinese juncao
11:48technology first arrived in the country.
11:57In 1997, juncao technology was taken abroad for the first time.
12:03Lin Jiangxi led a six-person expert team from China
12:07to Waii's homeland at the official invitation
12:10of PNG's Eastern Highlands province.
12:13Papua New Guinea is located in the southwestern Pacific,
12:17comprises of over 600 islands.
12:20The Chinese experts, setting foot on this land for the first time,
12:25were amazed at its rich natural resources and favorable climates.
12:30But they also faced unexpected challenges.
13:00This is where the juncao project began to grow in Papua New Guinea.
13:10Over 20 years ago, giant juncao grass from China traveled across the sea
13:17and demonstrated its amazing potential in a foreign land.
13:21The giant juncao grass quickly took root in Papua New Guinea.
13:33While the grass was easy to grow, cultivating the mushrooms proved more difficult.
13:38No water 이게 anyway.
13:39We're looking at the water and the water.
13:40The water quality of our environment.
13:41It's last year for us, the water is an air quality.
13:42We need a temperature of the water.
13:43What's the temperature?
13:44The cold is warm.
13:45The cold is warm.
13:46The water is cold.
13:47The cold is hot.
13:48The temperature is汁.
13:49The temperature is warm.
13:50The temperature is warm.
13:51The temperature is more light.
13:52The temperature is warm.
13:53The temperature is high.
13:54The water is low.
13:55What's the watervals are low?
13:56The heat goes here again.
13:57It's possible that they're in the air.
13:58They have to eat in the air.
13:59It's a pain that they were feeling, but you can't see a pain in their faces.
14:03All they do is to talk about what?
14:05What?
14:06to go in this way, that way.
14:08Simplification and localization
14:10were the solutions ultimately pursued
14:12by the Chinese experts.
14:36In Papua New Guinea's first mushroom shed,
14:41the mushrooms finally began to grow.
14:44In Lufa, we planted the seed into the ground every morning,
14:48and there was one morning I came,
14:50and I could see one, you know,
14:52mushroom was sprouting out from the soil,
14:56and that was like brightened my day, you know.
14:59It was like a new life.
15:06Mushrooms just grow in front of us, every day.
15:10So we started, they harvest and they cook for us,
15:13we ate it, it was so delicious,
15:15we enjoyed the mushroom.
15:16One, two, one.
15:19Try, try, try.
15:21Right, look at that.
15:23They've never seen this fish,
15:26they've never eaten this fish.
15:28So when they've tasted this fish,
15:30they're very excited, very happy.
15:33they're very excited.
15:40Papua New Guinea is the second largest country in Oceania,
15:45and it became the first overseas country
15:48to successfully implement Chinese Junsao technology.
15:52So, in the first place,
15:55we made it successful,
15:56we moved to Wanda,
15:57to Lai Soto,
15:58to France,
15:59to France,
16:00to France,
16:01to France,
16:02to France.
16:03In the technology,
16:04and in the marketing model,
16:05the two big companies,
16:06the two big companies,
16:07which came back to other countries,
16:08became a very important role.
16:10Hey, Junior.
16:28Junkao.
16:29Good afternoon.
16:30How are you?
16:31Oh, that's good.
16:32Nice to hear you that.
16:33We are at Lufa Station now,
16:34now where i remember professor planted the first juncao grass there your namesake i'm sitting right
16:41there with with another professor yin xin my schoolmate we're together here we're discussing
16:48looking at the juncao grass and we think of you because you're the first child that was born and
16:54then i call you name you after the lean grass juncao you're already a big man now and how is
17:03your girlfriend is he okay oh he is a girlfriend yeah oh good one good one you have to look after
17:09your girlfriend that's my hello to him in 1996 on returning from china brian named his eldest son
17:22juncao from senior juncao to junior juncao the names of his two children reflect his great
17:30expectations for the juncao technology
17:36in the capital port mooresby a girl also named juncao is about to embark on a journey of discovery
17:44juncao karani i'm 20 years of age yeah it was my best name yeah so it's on my best certificate
18:04everything i am juncao and yeah it was given to me by my father juncao karani is a student at the
18:14university of papua new guinea because of her unique name she was often teased as a child my dad passed
18:23away when i was really young so like i didn't get the chance to know why i got the name or like what's so
18:28so you need to get the boat deep as a child juncao was confused by her unusual name however over time
18:39she began to realize that there might be a deeper meaning behind it
18:55juncao karani will soon return to her homeland after years abroad to attend an important commemoration
19:04she looks forward to the trip hoping to discover the origin of her name
19:20in the old house where their father once lived
19:35back in her hometown juncao karani is reunited with her elder brother and elder sister
19:41in the old house where their father once lived
19:49despite the years the house still retains its original appearance
19:55at the time um juncao project began i can still remember it was still like this
20:06during the conversation with her siblings juncao karani gradually pieced
20:10together the origin of her name
20:16people telling me how juncao my dad what my dad did and how what it did with that technology
20:24juncao karani's father was the late matias karani a member of parliament for the lufa district
20:31when brian yi brought the juncao technology back to papua new guinea matias karani was one of its staunchest
20:44supporters
20:51so
20:53so
20:54so
20:55Karani fervently hoped that Chinese Juncao technology could change the lives of his fellow countrymen.
21:12The leader at that time, the late Mathis Karani, he said, oh, let's go for it.
21:20When the Chinese expert team first arrived in the Lufa district in 1997, they faced various difficulties, not even having a place to stay when they started.
21:35Because the project was up in Lufa, and there's no houses up there, so we go to sleep here and travel up there.
21:42I go to drive them up, drive them back, and up and down every day.
21:48Seeing the hardship endured by the Chinese experts, Karani let them live in his house while he and his family moved into a garage nearby.
21:59With Karani's support, Juncao technology was successfully promoted in PNG.
22:07In the process, Karani and the team of Chinese experts formed a close bond.
22:14I even I didn't work with them all, because it really Investment helps me to achieve success when people come on in New York.
22:17I had.
22:20I was 40 for a long time, so I arrived that었어요 from the Illinois state.
22:22Myкаун wordt Boom.
22:41...
23:07After more than a year of work,
23:09When the Chinese experts grew the first mushrooms
23:12in the Lufa district,
23:13Karane was the happiest man in the land.
23:17He immediately organized a grand celebration.
23:39The president of Karane was named as a police officer,
23:52and he was arrested on the newspaper.
23:55I asked him why he was named as a police officer.
24:01He said, no matter how,
24:03no matter how the society will develop,
24:06there are a lot of different technologies
24:09that support the Chinese people.
24:22Mathias Karane also had his eldest daughter, Elizabeth,
24:25recognized Professor Lin-Jan Shi as her godfather
24:29and named him after the bird of paradise,
24:32the noblest bird in Papua New Guinea.
24:35The people in Lufa we named Professor Lin-Jan Shi Butupa.
24:41Butupa is the bird of paradise,
24:43so it's like an emblem.
24:45So we gave him that name
24:48because he's like an icon.
24:51For several years, Professor Lin-Jan Shi traveled back and forth
24:55between China and Papua New Guinea to organize and implement the Junsao technology project.
25:05However, in 2005, just as the project was beginning to produce results, tragedy struck.
25:11Mathias Karane and his wife died from illnesses one after another, leaving behind several young children.
25:21I lost my dad at a very young age.
25:31And it breaks my heart most of the time to think that it.
25:35And I lost my mom at 16.
25:39Being without parents and staying in my family's relatives' home
25:45and going to school this and that and coming to work all this,
25:48that's the biggest challenge.
25:50Yeah, so that's the most, I don't know, I can't say.
25:56I can't put them in words.
25:58But...
26:00Yeah, but I told myself that nothing in this world is permanent.
26:15Everything will be gone.
26:23The work is not yet...
26:25It's not complicated.
26:27We just have to do this one and this one.
26:39I felt like giving up, obviously.
26:42But then, I...
26:45After some years, I met with Lin and then I started working with them
26:49and then I contact, I get in touch again with Professor Butupa and them,
26:54so they started helping me.
26:57It's not always raining.
27:02There's always a time to shine and then there's always raining.
27:06In July 2023, villagers from the Lufa district began to gather spontaneously in front of a public building named after Karani.
27:21A memorial event for Mr. Karani was about to take place.
27:30We are very glad this morning to have you here on our show Lufa.
27:34The late family of late Karani and his people of Lufa station.
27:40We are very pleased and honored to have you here.
27:44Jun Sao Karani returned to her hometown precisely because she wanted to attend this gathering with her brother and sister.
27:52How is she?
27:53This is now our name.
27:54Your great father, huh?
27:55Our name is Your Great Father, huh?
27:56Chicken!
27:57Fight!
27:58Hoodie!
27:59No, no, no!
28:01So next day, we will start to produce our tubas...
28:04In here.
28:05The enterprise that Karani developed has continued.
28:12His children have grown up, and they too have become part of it.
28:18In the future, I'm thinking of, like,
28:20I'm starting a business for myself, an agricultural business.
28:25It can be, it will be related to Jinkal.
28:28I have a farm of my own.
28:33And I'm currently studying linguistics and modern language
28:36at the University of Papua New Guinea.
28:38So I think that maybe I could use my linguistics background
28:41to probably translate and help my people get to know
28:44with my local language to Mandarin, just to help them.
28:49The enterprise that Matthias Karani initiated
28:52continues to go from strength to strength.
28:55Juntsao technology has now been promoted to nine provinces
28:58and 17 districts across Papua New Guinea,
29:02benefiting over 40,000 people.
29:05My dad wanted this.
29:07I could have the name so that, like,
29:08it should pass on from generation to generation.
29:11One, two, three.
29:15Juntsao! Juntsao! Juntsao!
29:20Juntsao!
29:32Juntsao!
29:33Juntsao!
29:35Juntsao
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