On July 4th, Prof. Wu Kongmin, President of CAAS, met with Prof. Qaisar Abbas, Vice Chancellor of the University of Sargodha in Pakistan. The two sides exchanged views on deepening agricultural science and technology cooperation.

Prof. Wu Kongming stated that under the strategic guidance of the top leaders of both countries, CAAS has a strong cooperative relationship with its Pakistan partners, achieving positive results in technological innovation, platform building, as well as talent exchange and cultivation. He hoped that the University of Sargodha and CAAS would build up scientific and technological cooperation in crop breeding, climate-smart agriculture, dryland farming, agricultural product processing, etc.  through building joint laboratories, joint programs of graduate students and personnel exchanges so as to bring new impetus into agricultural development in both countries and serve the development of the China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership.

Prof. Qaisar Abbas expressed that the University of Sargodha is one of the few comprehensive universities in Pakistan with a Faculty of Agriculture, and is eagerly looking forward to initiating comprehensive cooperation with CAAS. He emphasized the importance of jointly cultivating agricultural science and technology talents and promoting China-Pakistan agricultural science and technology cooperation to a new level.

Officials from the Department of International Cooperation, Graduate School, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, and Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture of CAAS attended the meeting. Before the meeting, Abbas and his delegation visited the National Crop Gene Bank.