On March 23, Tang Huajun, the President of CAAS, and Zhang Hecheng, Secretary of the Leading Party Group of CAAS, visited IPP-CAAS and inspect the resumption of production and work at the institute. A number of CAAS leaders accompanied the visit, including Wu Kongming, Vice-President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of CAAS, Feng Zhongwu, member of the Party Group and Vice-President of CAAS, Wang Xiaoju, Director of the Administration Office of CAAS, Gao Lei and Xue Pengfei, Deputy Directors of the Administration Office of CAAS, Xiong Mingmin, Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Department of CAAS, Fang Jun, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Graduate School of CAAS, Lv Chunsheng and Zhang Shuqing, Director and Deputy Director of the Logistics Service Center of CAAS, respectively. Zhou Xueping, DG of IPP-CAAS, and Zheng Yongquan, Zhang Jie and Shen Yinshu, DDGs of IPP-CAAS, participated in the inspection.

Firstly, the CAAS leaders inspected the implementation of the epidemic prevention and control strategies taken at the National Agricultural Biosafety Science Center. They listened to DG Zhou Xueping's report on the novel coronavirus disease epidemic prevention and recovery of scientific research work. After reading the Bulletin of epidemic prevention work of IPP-CAAS, Compilation of novel coronavirus epidemic situation prevention and control system of IPP-CAAS, and other related mate-rials, they affirmed the epidemic prevention and control work done by IPP-CAAS.

Then, the leaders went to each lab and visted scientists who had never stopped their research work on the Fall Army Worms (Spodoptera frugiperda) during the period of epidemic. After listening to the report on the research progress of S. frugiperda by Prof. Wang Zhenying, who is the chief scientist of the Innovation Team for Monitoring and Control of Insect Pests on Food Crops, the Leaders comprehensively and carefully observed the prevention and control technology of S. frugiperda. They also observed the insects at all four growing stages (eggs, larvae, adults, and pupae), learned about their feeding habits, and the symptoms of corn leaves full of holes after being eaten by them. And they were very delighted to see the test results thatthe seed coating agent developed by IPP-CAAS can effectively prevent the harms done by S. frugiperda. They further inquired about the internal absorption activity and duration of the seed coating agent. In addition, the leaders were very interested in the biological control measures on S. frugiperda. They inspected the breeding technologies of natural enemies such as parasitoids, stinkbug, sandfly and ladybug, and listened to the reports on the demonstration effect of natural enemies. Above all, the leaders affirmed that efforts taken by IPP-CAAS during the epidemic prevention and control period, when the scientists at the institute had always continued the research projects for national major demands. They encouraged the institute to con-tinue its efforts to provide scientific and technological support for the national food security.

Later, the CAAS leaders also visited and inspected the National Livestock and Poultry Germplasm Resource Bank of Institute of Animal Sciences of CAAS, the Agricultural Product Processing Quality and Safety Supervision and Inspection Center of the Institute of Food Science and Technology of CAAS, and the construction site and student dormitory building of Graduate School of CAAS. Mr. Tang Huajun em-phasized that on top of the epidemic prevention and control, we should speed up the resumption of key projects, provide a good environment for agricultural scientific and technological innovation, and continue satisfying the needs of staff at CAAS for a beautiful campus.