郑辟疆与江苏省立女子蚕业学校

Zheng Pijiang and Jiangsu Women's Sericulture School

1918年郑辟疆受命于江苏省立女子蚕业学校发展的艰难时期,立志以挽回中国蚕丝业在国际上的竞争权利为己任。他主张教育、科研和生产相结合,人才培养注意与蚕丝业实际相结合;他不拘一格地选聘人才,建立了一支志同道合,不计报酬、埋头工作的师资队伍;他把蚕丝业改进作为江苏省立女子蚕业学校所肩负的时代任务,运筹帷幄地指挥着蚕丝业改进工作的逐步开展,不仅开创了学校为地方经济发展服务的"女蚕"模式,并且创造了大有蚕种场和开弦弓生丝精制合作社等蚕丝业推广和改进的经典案例,是中国蚕丝业改革的见证人。在他的带领下,江苏省立女子蚕业学校在蚕丝业人才培养和产业振兴方面发挥了重要作用。

In 1918, Zheng Pijiang was appointed president of Jiangsu Women Sericulture School in its difficult time. He was determined to recover the international competitiveness of Chinese sericulture. He advocated the combination of education and scientific research with production, as well as the combination of talents cultivation and sericulture practice. He recruited able people without overstressing qualifications, and established a faculty and staff with shared goals. The faculty and staff were highly devoted without thinking too much about the pay. Zheng took the sericulture reform as the mission of the times for Jiangsu Women Sericulture School. He led the sericulture reform with strategies step by step, initiating the sericulture model of school education serving for local economic development, creating the classic cases for sericulture popularization and reform such as Dayou silkworm farm and raw silk refining cooperatives. He was the eyewitness to sericulture reform in China. Under his leadership, Jiangsu Women Sericulture School had played an important role in sericulture talents cultivation and industry revitalization.