Vice Minister Chen Xiaohua met with Marian Jure?ka, 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 Jure?ka 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.