Vice Minister Chen Xiaohua meets Minister of Agriculture of the Czech Republic
DATE:2016-05-05 SOURCE:MOA
Vice Minister Chen Xiaohua met with Marian Jurečka, visiting Minister of Agriculture of the Czech Republic, in Beijing on May 4th, 2016. The two sides exchanged views on strengthening China-Czech pragmatic agricultural cooperation.
Chen noted that China and Czech enjoy a long history of friendship. The two sides have built up time-honored agricultural cooperation with sound development momentum. To further promote bilateral agricultural cooperation, Chen put forward a five-point proposal: first, make good use of bilateral agricultural cooperation mechanism to enhance cooperation in a down-to-earth manner; second, build an agricultural cooperation demonstration zone under the framework of the "One Belt One Road' initiative; third, promote bilateral agricultural trade through the platform of the China International Agricultural Trade Fair; fourth, make good use of the China-CEE Agro-trade & Economic Cooperation Forum and other multilateral mechanisms to enrich bilateral cooperation; fifth, actively enhance S&T cooperation in agro-product quality and safety, agricultural machinery and eco-agriculture, among others.
Marian Jurečka fully agreed with Chen on his proposal. He was looking forward to the convening of the first meeting of China-Czech agricultural cooperation working group. He also expressed his willingness to attend the 11th China-CEE Agro-trade & Economic Cooperation Forum and other relevant activities in Kunming in November of 2016.
