中国的农业发展为我打开创业之门

China Opens a Door for My Agriculture Entrepreneurial Dream

'我的研究所坐落在一个美丽的校园里,校园旁有座山,山脚下有个湖,欢迎各位随时来访.'中国访问学者海蒂(王杰)用一口出乎我意料之外的流利英文以及一种典型的中国逻辑向我描述了她那美丽的家乡,那里有山有水。记得那是在得克萨斯州的一所大学里,我们在同一个办公室,另外还有两位美国同学和一位印度同学,她公开邀请我们访问中国科学院南京土壤科学研究所。在此之前,我从未考虑过要去中国,也没有想过有一天会住在那里,更没有想过自己会在这个“中心王国”安家立业。然而,仅仅数月后,就在同一个办公室,我和妻子丽莎站在海蒂的后面,看着她用一种既陌生又神秘的文字帮我们填写网上申请表。

“Welcome to visit my institute!It is on a beautiful campus next to a lake and a mountain!”Little did I know that Heidi(王杰),a visiting researcher from China,was in fluent English giving me the quintessential Chinese logic to describe the beauty of her home:“有山有水”.We were sitting in our shared office with two other American students and one Indian student at my university in Texas.She was giving an open invitation to any of us to come as visiting researchers to the Nanjing Institute of Soil Science,Chinese Academy of Sciences.Until that time,I had never considered the possibility of visiting China,much less living there one day,and even less still raising a family in the Middle Kingdom.None-the-less,only a few months later,Heidi was sitting in that same offi ce with me and my wife,Alycia,watching over her shoulder as she helped us fill out an on-line application form in characters that seemed strange and mysterious.