On 14 June 2016, the Base for Demonstrating Sino-Finland S&T Cooperation Achievements on Monitoring and Controlling Technology for Agricultural Source Pollutions was inaugurated in Dali Comprehensive Experimental Station of Agro-Environmental Protection Institute （AEPI）,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). Mr. Veli-Pekka Talvela, Director General of Department of International Cooperation , Finland's Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Prof. Ren Tianzhi, Director General of AEPI and representatives from Finland's Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Pellon Group Ltd, Human Resources Development Center of Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), CAAS attended the inauguration ceremony.

The two sides signed cooperation agreement on science and technology and established “LUKE-AEPI Joint Laboratory for Agricultural Environmental Technology” in year of 2014 and 2015. To strengthen the bilateral scientific cooperation, the establishment of demonstration base aims at deepening the bilateral pragmatic cooperation, supporting scientific research and facilitating the academic activities so as to contribute to the prevention and controlling of agricultural source pollutions, especially those from livestock breeding.

The "Sino-Finland Academic Seminar on Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control of Animal Husbandry in Erhai Basins" was held during this event. Experts from both sides reported on the "Technology and Policy on Finland's Environmental-friendly Animal Husbandry" and "Reconstruction Scheme on Dali's Dairy Farm Project" respectively. There were active discussions on such topics as protection of agricultural ecological environment, healthy breeding, pollutant monitoring and so on. Both sides also explored into the potential collaborative activities and put forward plans and suggestion for further cooperation.