On August 12, Vice President Wu Kongming met with Ben Dalton, the visiting New Zealand Vice Minister for Primary Industries at CAAS headquarter in Beijing. The two sides exchanged views on agricultural science and technology cooperation.

Wu reviewed the bilateral cooperation on agricultural science and technology and spoke highly of the achievements especially in the dairy industry and fruit research. To further improve the partnership, he put forward a three-point proposal: (1) to take advantage of joint initiatives between both Governments including China-New Zealand Joint Committee on S&T Cooperation and China-New Zealand Dairy Forum; (2) to innovate cooperative activities so as to establish joint research centers, and to jointly train talents based respective academic advantages, and so on; (3) to extend scope for future collaboration, encouraging joint research to tackle commonly concerned issues and key problems in areas such as climate change, agricultural eco-environment, dairy quality test and inspection, water pollution treatment, irrigation technologies.

Dalton appreciated with Wu’s proposal and hoped the two sides will make concerted efforts to water quality management, drought resistant and irrigation technologies, etc.