China continues to step up agricultural foreign aid
Xinhua News Agency, Fuzhou, October 30 (Special dispatch): On the 30th, Yu Yingfu, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Foreign Aid of the Ministry of Commerce, said while attending the “International Juncao Industry Development Seminar” that in recent years the Chinese government has continuously stepped up its agricultural foreign aid and has made important contributions to promoting the economic and social development of recipient countries.
Yu Yingfu said that as the largest developing country, while facing enormous development tasks, China has provided economic and technical assistance to more than 160 countries to the best of its ability within the framework of South-South cooperation and has undertaken more than 2,100 complete projects, among which agriculture has always been one of the priorities of China's foreign aid.
It is understood that from the 1950s to the present, the Chinese government has helped 62 countries build 212 agricultural projects, including farms, agricultural demonstration centers, agricultural technology experimental stations and extension stations, dispatched more than 5,000 agricultural experts and technical personnel, and trained more than 20,000 officials and technical personnel from the agricultural departments of recipient countries in China.
Yu Yingfu stated that the Chinese government's agricultural aid has played an important role in helping recipient countries improve agricultural infrastructure, raise agricultural technology levels, increase grain output and promote agricultural development, and has been warmly welcomed and positively evaluated by the governments and people of the countries concerned.
The “International Juncao Industry Development Seminar” is one of the special activities of the 12th Annual Meeting of the China Association for Science and Technology. More than 170 people, including officials from the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture, government officials, experts and representatives of the juncao industry from 22 countries, attended the seminar, and they held discussions on topics such as expanding the space for juncao technology development and international juncao technology exchange and industrial cooperation.