On 5 March 2019, the German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association VDMA China Representative Office hosted an Agricultural Machinery China Management Meeting (CMM) in Qingdao, Shandong Province. Altogether, 41 participants representing 21 international agricultural machinery companies respectively from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, etc., attended the one-day meeting. At the invitation of the chief representative of VDMA in China, Dr. Jürgen Ritter, German Managing Director of the Sino-German Agricultural Centre (DCZ), and Prof. Liu Yonggong, DCZ advisor for agri-business cooperation and professor at the China Agricultural University, attended the meeting and presented the work of the DCZ [...]

Between February 26 and March 1, 2019 the 24th expert meeting on Sino-German Agricultural Research Collaboration was held in Hangzhou. The collaboration between the science and research divisions of the agricultural ministries of the two countries was established in 1978 and since 1981 regular bi-annual meetings have been held. The successful collaboration resulted so far in the financial support of 550 bilateral projects in agricultural sciences (this included funding of whole projects, workshops and conferences as well as travel grants). This year’s delegation on German side included Dr. Hartmut Stalb, Director for Research, Operational Coordination and Information Technology at the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), Dr. Ursula Monnerjahn-Karbach [...]