CAAS Vice President Wu Kongming met with a North Carolina State University (NCSU) delegation headed by Bailian Li, Vice Provost of the NCSU on March 21, and reached consensus with the visitors on further promoting agricultural sciences and education.


Wu noted that cooperation between CAAS and NCSU has yielded beneficial results in areas as foreign species invasion and pest control since the two sides signed the memorandum of understanding on cooperation in April 2012. He made the following proposals to enhance cooperation the partnership between the two sides: to set up a CAAS-NCSU Joint Agricultural Sciences Center; to initiate the doctoral programs and other joint degree programs; to co-organize symposiums/seminars from time to time to promote cooperation between the two sides in areas they are strong in; and to seek breakthroughs in joint applications for major international programs.

After the meeting, the NCSU delegation continued their visit to several CAAS institutes and research centers, as: Institute of Crop Sciences, Institute of Plant Protection, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, the Sino-American Biological Control Laboratory and National Agricultural Science & Technology Demonstration Park.