Deputy Mayor of Suihua City, Liu Ye, met with Zhou Jianqiang, Director of the International Technology Cooperation Bureau of the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Huang Xiaodong, Deputy General Manager of the Canadian Agricultural New Energy Regeneration Company, and the University of Waterloo Environmental Biotechnology Company, and introduced the basic situation of Suihua City, including its population geography, resource environment, administrative divisions, and agricultural technology development.
Zhou Jianqiang introduced the agricultural development situation in Canada and the achievements in agricultural technology cooperation with China, proposing the technical fields and industrial directions for cooperation. Huang Xiaodong briefly introduced the technology for soil improvement using functional plants and the technology for bio-smart fertilizers.
After negotiations, Suihua City and the International Technology Cooperation Bureau of the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture signed the "Strategic Cooperation Intention Agreement on Agricultural Technology between the People's Government of Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, and the International Technology Cooperation Bureau of the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture." The two parties will carry out international agricultural technology cooperation in five areas: exploring effective models for government-industry-university-research cooperation, soil improvement and bio-organic fertilizer technology research and development, agricultural intensification and industrialization, building national-level modern agricultural technology parks and provincial-level standardized core agricultural technology demonstration zones, and establishing research and technology achievement transformation bases.
Heilongjiang Jindashida Co., Ltd. signed a research and development cooperation agreement for biological anti-saline and alkaline agents/fertilizers for comprehensive management of saline-alkali land with the Canadian Agricultural New Energy Regeneration Company and the University of Waterloo Environmental Biotechnology Company.
