Dr. Zhou Xueping, the Director General of IPP, met with Dr. Zhang Bei, the new President of Syngenta Biotechnology (China) Co. Ltd. (SBC) and her colleague on 16 September, 2015, at IPP. The two parties exchanged views on how to promote further collaboration.

Dr. Zhou congratulated Dr. Zhang on her assuming the office of the President of SBC and briefly introduced the basic facts of IPP and recent research progress. Dr. Zhou highly valued the collaboration between IPP and SBC in development of new techniques in resistance against corn insect pests and sucking insect pests in cotton, biological control of insect pests in greenhouse and studentship. He pointed out that crop resistance is an important measure in green control of pest organisms and suggested to strengthen co-innovation and to develop cultivars with multiple resistance based on current collaboration so that to better serve the agriculture in China. Dr. Zhang agreed with Dr. Zhou's suggestions. She expressed the willingness in discussing further the mutual demands in scientific and technological research and development and facilitating the R&D of plant protection products with major marketing value while promoting the mutual scientific and technological research level.

Dr. Cao Wanhong, the manager of the Department of Collaboration, SBC, Drs. Qiu Dewen and Zhang Jie, the Deputy Directors General of IPP, Dr. Chen Julian, Director of Department of International Cooperation and Graduate Student, Dr. Wang Guirong, the Deputy Director of the Department of Biotechnology in Plant Protection and Dr. He Kanglai, Corn Insect Pests Group, attended this meeting.