棉花新品种石远321是石家庄市农科院与中科院遗传所协作，用陆地棉、海岛棉、野生瑟伯氏棉3个棉种进行远缘杂交，通过激素处理。杂种幼胚离体培养、染色体加倍使其恢复育性，再经回交转育、南繁北育，异地鉴定，历经近20个世代选育而成。1997年1月河北省审定定名为“冀棉24”， Shiyuan 321 is a new cotton variety Shijiazhuang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Genetics Collaboration, with upland cotton, island cotton, wild Cerberus 3 cotton species for distant hybridization, through hormone treatment. Hybrid embryos cultured in vitro, chromosome doubling to restore fertility, and then by backcrossing, South Fan North, identification off-site, after nearly 20 generations of breeding. January 1997 in Hebei Province, identified as “Ji cotton 24”