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Recent DCZ activities:

Sunday, 19.05.2019

On May 19, Eva Sternfeld, on behalf of DCZ, participated in the opening ceremony of the 9th Beijing International Urban Agricultural Science &Technology Festival, which was organized on the occasion of the National Science & Technology Week (May 19-26). [...]

Wednesday, 15.05.2019

On May 15, 2019, on invitation of CAAS, DCZ short-term expert Dr. Carsten Hoffmann, a soil and data scientist at the Research Platform “Data” of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), gave a workshop about “Smart Farming: Tools for digitization and data management” at the Institute for Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning” for scientists and PhD researchers at CAAS. [...]

Latest Agri news:

On April 29, the International Horticultural Expo 2019 opened in Yanqing district, in the northwest of Beijing. The world’s largest horticultural exposition “Live Green, Live Better” will run until October 7, 2019 and demonstrates on 960 ha exhibits related to horticulture and sustainable technologies from different regions of China and 86 nations.

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On 19 February 2019, Xinhua News Agency released China’s No.1 Document entitled “On the Issues of Prioritizing Agricultural and Rural Development and Perfecting ‘San Nong’ Work1”. The Document was jointly issued by CPC Central Committee and the State Council on 3 January 2019. The document stressed the special importance of “San Nong Work” in the context of increasing pressure of economic slow-down and the changing domestic and international environment. “San Nong Work” is described as “ballast stone”, the weight which provides stability to a ship when it is without cargo, for a healthy and sustainable social and economic development in the country.

The document highlighted following priority areas [...]

On 18 February 2019, seven Chinese ministries, i. e. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Ministry of Finance (MOF), Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), State Food and Strategic Reserve Administration (SFSRA), jointly released an official document named National Planning of Quality-Based Agricultural Development (2018-2022) [...]