Li Jiayang stresses: strive to build a collaborative mechanism for agricultural science and technology under the new normal
On April 8, the Ministry of Agriculture held a special meeting on the National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Alliance in Beijing, to implement the guiding instructions of the State Council leadership, study and arrange the 2015 work, and effectively promote the building of the alliance. Li Jiayang, Vice Minister of Agriculture, President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Chairman of the National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Alliance, attended the meeting and stressed the need to strive to build a collaborative innovation mechanism for agricultural science and technology under the new normal, actively give play to the important role of the alliance in agricultural science and technology innovation, and fully promote the smooth progress of all work of the alliance in 2015.
The meeting pointed out that establishing the National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Alliance is a proactive response to the new situation and new requirements of the national science and technology system reform and the central government fiscal science and technology program reform, a beneficial exploration of an efficiently collaborative agricultural research system and management model under the new normal, a major event for the national agricultural science and technology community, and has already attracted widespread attention from all sectors of society.
The meeting stressed that the National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Alliance brings together the advantageous resources and strength of agricultural research across the country, and is an important force in China's agricultural science and technology innovation. It is necessary to actively give play to the role of each member unit, closely follow the major national needs of the current and coming period as well as the Ministry of Agriculture“two do everything possible, two strive to ensure and two continuously improve” work goals, focus on the four major directions of basic long-term science and technology work, key core technologies of agricultural production, the strategic frontier of agricultural science and technology, and sustainable regional agricultural development, focus on distilling the major science and technology needs and key research and development tasks of modern agricultural development, jointly establish projects and organize the implementation of key projects of national science and technology programs, break down departmental, disciplinary and regional boundaries, and explore the establishment of an efficient collaborative innovation mechanism driven by national needs, propelled by project tasks, supported by platform resource sharing, and promoted by mechanism innovation.
The meeting required that the alliance's important think-tank role in national agricultural development be given play, and that agricultural science and technology development strategy research be organized around major national strategic needs. It is necessary to closely center on the Ministry of Agriculture's 2015 central work, continuously improve the alliance's organizational and management bodies, compile the alliance's medium- and long-term development plan, actively plan and organize the implementation of a batch of major science and technology tasks, strive to create a good development environment for the alliance, fully promote the smooth progress of all work of the alliance, and win the opening battle of the alliance's work.
The meeting studied and discussed the alliance's construction and operating mechanism, held a signing ceremony for the alliance accession agreement, and established 3 joint research collaboration groups including wheat yield and efficiency improvement, marking the official launch of the alliance's work.