The 2014 Summing-up meeting of Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network of Chinese side was held in Beijing from December 11th to 12th. Director Wang Jinbiao, from Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Professor Tong Yanan, on behalf of SAIN Secretariat (China), summarized the work being done in 2014, and the four working groups reported the project progress and future work plans.
Director Wang Jinbiao expressed full recognition for SAIN achievements in recent years and put forward the practical suggestions on SAIN development under the new environment. He stressed that, in order to deepen the UK-China cooperation, the two countries would actively promote the construction of high-level interaction with a new cooperation mechanism, and SAIN should be actively involved in the new mechanism in order to strive for more resources to achieve SAIN sustainable development. Director Wang also suggested to strengthening multilateral cooperation, new project application involving the third party beneficiary as far as possible.
At the meeting, participants discussed problems such as SAIN’s challenges under the new environment, SAIN positioning, new project application, SAIN sustainable development. Professor Tong encouraged the working groups should not be limited by SAIN, should broaden their horizons to seek more cooperation opportunities for collaboration within and outside SAIN, thereby expanding SAIN extension and accelerating its development. Participants generally agreed to strengthen academic exchange visits with Britain and organize more achievement exchanging meetings.
In order to prepare for the fourth SAIN Governing Board meeting next year, the conference also made the following work:
1 The Secretariat and working groups continue to improve Achievements Compilation from last 5 years, and all working groups keep on increasing the content of the results and working photographs. This work was completed at the end of February.
2 To strengthen SAIN social propaganda, SAIN continue published SAIN scientific and technological achievements in the "News paper of Agricultural Science and Technology". All working groups continue to contribute, in the language appropriate to be published in the newspapers. The publishing manuscript should be send to the secretariat at the end of March from each working group.
3 At present, only one project is in the implementation. Each working group should submit 2 project proposals for approval in the fourth SAIN Governing Board meeting next year. The project should be involved the interests of developing countries in Africa, Southeast Asia as far as possible. It’s necessary for each working group to consult the project with the British experts and submit the project proposals to the secretariat at the end of February.
4 It’s recommended that China Secretariat and British should communicate with each other to find out whether the published papers of SAIN project hang " UK-China Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network " funding, otherwise how to reflect and expand the social impact of SAIN.
