On March 29th, 2018, IPP-CAAS organized an investigation workshop in Yanqing demonstra-tion area of organic agriculture, and also inaugurated the “Demonstration Base of Integrated Biocontrol Technology”. The leaders from adminstrative departments at all levels, including Mr. TANG Shengyao, Deputy Director General of the Department of International Coopera-tion, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), Academician WU Kongming, Vice President of CAAS, Prof. ZHOU Xueping, Director General of IPP-CAAS, Prof. QIU Dewen, Deputy Director General of IPP-CAAS, Prof. CHEN Julian, Director of Department of International Cooperation and Graduate Student, IPP- CAAS, Dr. UlliKuhlmann, Executive Director General of International Cooperation Department, CABI, Dr. ZHANG Qiaoqiao, Director Gen-eral of Member Country's Affair, Dr. HarietHinz, Director of Switzerland Center of CABI, Eu-rope, accompanied by Mr. LIU Yu , President of Beijing Lvfulong Agriculture Co. LTD (BLAC) and Mr. QI Junfeng, General manager of BLAC, investigated Yanqing demonstration area of organic agriculture, and jointly attended the opening ceremony for the Demonstration Base.
The opening ceremony was hosted by DDG QIU Dewen. Firstly, Prof. ZHOU Xueping introduced the cooperation between IPP-CAAS and the demonstration area of Yanqing organic ag-riculture. He pointed out, in recent years multiple biocontrol technologies developed by the research groups of our institute have been applied in BLAC, achieving significant pest control effect on facility fruits and vegetables, e.g. strawberry and tomato. To fully take our advantage, serve the agricultural production of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and drive the inte-gration of biocontrol technology, a scientific and technological cooperation agreement was signed between IPP-CAAS and BLAC in 2016, which will promote standardized development of organic agriculture in Yanqing.
Mr. LIU Yu, President of BLAC, introduced the development status and program of the company. BLAC established in 2002, mainly producing organic vegetables, has obtained several authentications, for instance ISO14001, ISO9002 and organic products. Furthermore, Beijing municipal government awarded this company numerous honors, such as “advanced unit of 2008 Olympic Games food supplying”, advanced organization of “Action of Assisting Olympic Games” and main production base of vegetable for “2019 Beijing World Horticultural Expo”. The demand for advanced technologies of plant protection increased sharply with the devel-opment of the company, therefore, we strengthened cooperation with IPP-CAAS to accelerate the development of organic agriculture in Yanqing and to support the World Horticultural Expo 2019 and Winter Olympic Games 2022.
Academician WU Kongming, on behalf of CAAS, made a speech. He pointed out it was required for the integrated biocontrol technologies and agricultural innovation in Yanqing District, and the demand of consumers for organic agricultural products enhanced obviously. Thus the collaboration between the biocontrol research groups of IPP-CAAS, possessing ad-vanced biocontrol technologies and related products, and BLAC, owning advantage in the demonstration of innovative organic agriculture, will promote the development of Demon-stration Base of Integrated Biocontrol Technology, and support the strategy of Chinese rural rejuvenation.
Mr. TANG Shengyao, Mr. WU Kongming, Mr. ZHOU Xueping and Mr. LIU Yu jointly unveiled the name plate for the base. More than 35 people from MARA, CAAS, CABI as well as BLAC participated in the event.