A high-level delegation of Arysta LifeScience (ALS), USA, visited IPP on 26 April. The delegation was composed of Kim Watson, the Head of Global Licensing and Product Development, Alessandro Mariani, the Head of Product Management, Global Fungicides, Hong (Glen) Zhang, the Global Formulations Technology Manager, and Gregory Lecollinet, the Formulation Manager for Biosolutions. Dr. Qiu Dewen, the Deputy Director General of IPP and the developer of the innovative biological pesticide ATailing, met with the foreign guests. Dr. Chen Julian, the Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Graduate Student in IPP, hosted the meeting.

Dr. Qiu expressed the warm welcome to the high-level delegation of ALS and introduced the recent progress in scientific research and achievement transformation. He hoped to extend the collaboration and communication with ALS in broader areas. The ALS delegation exchanged ideas with IPP scientists in respect of the data from trials and assessments for ATailing, the project promoting, and the global strategic planning for ATaiLing in 2016. The delegation expressed the willingness to have deeper collaboration with IPP in more areas. After the meeting, Dr. Qiu guided the delegation to visit the State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests. Mr. Chen Chang, the General Manager of Zhongbao Group Limited Corporation, showed the facilities and production lines in the Pesticide Factory of IPP-CAAS located at the Langfang Experimental Station.

The visit paid by the high-level delegation of ALS is of positive meaning to the deepening of the bilateral collaboration and realizing of the mutual benefits. Director Zhang Dongsheng from IPP's Department of Achievement Transfer, Dr. Yang Xiufen from the Protein Pesticide Group, Deputy Director Wang Lixia and Dr. Duan Xiayu from the Department of International Cooperation and Graduate Student, Mr. Chen Chang, the General Manager, and the Deputy General Managers Mr. Zhang Gangying, Mr. Xu Jun and Mr. Zhao Yijun, and Ms. Zhou Le, the Director of the General Manager's Office of Limited Corporation were present at the meeting.

It was learnt that IPP and ALS signed the strategic cooperation agreement for overseas exclusive agency of ATaiLing, the plant immune protein biological pesticide, in Miami, USA, in February this year. This officially opened up a new channel for ATaiLing to get into the international market and is significant to the collaboration and communication, between China and USA, in the control of plant diseases and the sale by agent of biological pesticides.