2005 NEWS
Antipoverty Issue
Trainees from African countries trained at SAU
During October 28-30, 2005, the participants of the Training Program for the
Antipoverty Issue in Africa organized by high-ranking and secondary
agricultural officials from 21 African countries took a survey study at SAU.
They studied the university s experience on scientific and technological
research and outreach activities. During their visit, seminars about rural
economy in Sichuan and the policy and experience on antipoverty, and survey
in field were arranged.
UNE
President visit SAU
October 13, President of the
University of New England (UNE), Australia, Mrs. Professor Ingrid Moses, and
Vice-President (International), Professor Robin Pollard paid a two days
visit to SAU. SAU President, Prof. Wen Xintian, and vice President, Prof.
Yang Wenyu hosted and held meeting with the guests. The Presidents of SAU
and UNE signed Memorandum of Understanding during the visit.
Spanish
Agricultural Delegation Came to Visit SAU
August 31, 2005, the Agricultural Delegation Catalunya Province of Spain,
Led by Mr. Antoni Suirana, the Minister of the Agriculture, Animal Husbandry
and Fishing Department of Catalunya Provincial Government, visited our
university.
Lleida University and SAU
signed an agreement to promote academic exchanges in education and research
on the basis of equality and reciprocity. President of SAU, Prof. Wen
Xintian and the Vice Party Secretary, Prof. Deng Liangji, were present at
the signing ceremony.
August 27, 2005, the one-month-training class of hybrid rice for the Vietnamese trainees was successfully wound up in Wengjiang Rice Institute of SAU. Vice-president Yang Wenyu was present at the completion ceremony and became the promulgator. He congratulated the 10 Vietnamese trainees to be diploma-holders of SAU.
Zhejiang
University Experts Came to SAU for Cooperation
From August 19 to 22, 2005,
guests of the Agriculture Modernization and
Countryside Development Research Center of Zhejiang University made a
visit to SAU. Three discussions were held and agreements were reached on
developing relations between the two universities before the title, the
Sichuan Branch Center of Zhejiang University National Innovation Program
Base of the Countryside Development of China, was vested in the Sichuan
Countryside Development Center of SAU and the plate of the title was put up
in the ceremony. The three discussions are about:
1. The establishment of the
Sichuan Branch Center of Zhejiang Universit National Innovation Program
Base of the Countryside Development of China;
2. the tripartite
cooperation between Zhejiang University Agriculture Modernization and
Countryside Development Research Center, SAU Sichuan Countryside
Development Center and Sino-Canadian Agricultural Cooperation Program
Beijing Office;
3. the agenda of the
arrangement for the Seminar of Anti-poverty in the Developing Countries in
SAU and the Sichuan-visiting tour of more than 40 officials and guests from
some dozen developing countries after the seminar.
Canadian Guests Came to Visit SAU
August 16, 2005, Mr. Chen
Zigang (Canadian Chinese) and Mr. Wu Song, who are in charge of the Canadian
Programs in China, made a survey in Sichuan and visited SAU. Two guests and
the hosts of SAU‘s Economic Administration College held a talk about issues
in cooperation and exchanges.
Academic
Exchange between Hiroshima University and SAU
From
August 13 to 14, 2005, the delegation of Hiroshima University Japan (Dr.
Fujita Izumi, Prof. Tomio Itani, and the other two came to SAU for a
cooperative visit and academic exchanges. They were welcomed in a friendly
way and treated properly for the enhancement of further academic exchanges.
July 25, 2005, Dr. Joachim von Braun, Chairman of the World Agricultural Economists Association and Head of the International Food Policy Institute of the United Nations, visited SAU upon invitation. He was warmly welcomed by the young teachers of the Economic Management College on the forum and some cooperative affairs were well discussed.
SAU Hosted the EU Asia-Link Project Summary Meeting
On 6 and 7 of April 2005,
the Educational Research Group of Chinese Nature & Wild Animal Management
Major held a summary meeting with the EU Asia-Link Project in our
university. More than 20 scientists and experts from the Netherlands,
Finland as well as the Animal Science and Forestry & Horticultural Colleges
of SAU attended the meeting. Prof. Deng Liangji, (Vice-Secretary of the
University Party Committee), Prof. Zhu Qing (Vice-President of the
University) and leaders from the Education Dept. and Forestry Dept. of
Sichuan Province were present.
SAU’s Project, Admitted into the "Changjiang
Scholarship & Innovating Groups"
The research project of "Exploitation and
Utilization of the Southwestern Crops' Specific Gene Resources", supervised
by Prof. Pan Guangtang, has been selected by the Ministry of Education as
one of the first group members of the "Development Program of the Changjiang
Scholarship & Innovating Groups" in 2004. In the field of this research
project, scholars of SAU: Yang Kaiqu, Yang Yongkui, Yan Ji, Zhou Kaida, Rong
Tingzhao and their colleagues, have been striving for many years in
collecting, sorting identifying and evaluating germplasm resources of rice,
wheat, corn and other crops. They have done a good job in crop breeding and
brought out a number of new breeds of high quality. Dozens of notable
achievements have been made in the past years and dozens of the first or the
second prizes by the State, Ministries or the province witnessed these
achievements.
A Delegation Led by Prof. Yang Wenyu, the Vice-President, Visited Vietnam
During April 4th through 10th, invited by the Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, the Dept. of
Agriculture of Vietnam and the Agriculture Development Bureau of Thai Binh
Province, Prof. Yang visited the country with a delegation made of four
staffs (Mr. Wang Yong, Secretary of the Foreign Affair Office, Mr. Liu
Wenjiang, Manager of International Trade Dept. of SAU Hi-tech Corporation
and Interpreter Huang Anyin. During the five-day visit, they held discussion
meeting with nine units such as the Vietnamese Central Seed Co. Ltd.,
Vietnamese Fruit & Vegetable Institute, the Agri. Bureau of the Ministry of
Agri. & Rural Development of Vietnam, Hanoi Foreign Language University, the
Hybrid Rice Research Center of the Vietnamese Academy of Agricultural
Sciences, Hanoi Agricultural University, Ho Chi Minh, Thanh Pho Agric. & Forestry University, the Southern Seed Co. Ltd and Thai Binh Provincial Seed
Company. It was a successful visit of acknowledgement and friendship while
the cooperation between two sides and our intention to enlist some
Vietnamese hybrid-rice-training-class students were brought into practical
consideration.
