On September 19, the 30th China Yangling Agricultural High-tech Achievements Expo and the 2023 Global Soil Health Forum opened in Yangling, Shaanxi Province. In the morning, the opening ceremony of the National Pavilion of Uzbekistan, the guest of honor, was held.
Zhong Hongjiang, Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province, Farkhod Arziyev, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to China, attended the opening ceremony and cut the ribbon, and Farkhod Arziyev delivered a speech. Shi Gaoling, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee and executive deputy director of the Management Committee of Yangling Demonstration District, Ibrahimov, assistant governor of Samarkand Prefecture of Uzbekistan, Yao Hongjuan, director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, Shakar Boev, head of Kushrabad District of Uzbekistan, Huang Yong, deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, and Zaporov, head of the Arex District of Uzbekistan, attended the opening ceremony, and Lei Jiangsheng, deputy secretary-general of the Shaanxi Provincial Government.
It is understood that the guest of honor Uzbekistan National Pavilion is located in Hall C of the Agricultural High School Association, a total of 7 units participated in the exhibition, as the famous "Silk Road" ancient country, Uzbekistan is an active place for foreign contacts and various cultural exchanges, the country is rich in natural resources, gold, "white gold" (cotton), "black gold" (oil), "blue gold" (natural gas) is the four pillars of its economic development. The agricultural products, fruits and vegetables, herbs, dried fruits, drinking water and handicrafts displayed this time showed the participants the unique national charm of Uzbekistan.
Azimov, from Uzbekistan, is the general manager of Gansu Timur Trading Co., Ltd. According to him, "Our country's sweets and handicrafts are very popular in China, and many merchants came to inquire about cooperation at today's exhibition, and some of China's technology, equipment such as new energy, agricultural machinery, etc. are also special needs of our country, I hope we can communicate more through this exhibition." ”
Not only the agricultural high school association, in recent years, Yangling and Uzbekistan have carried out extensive cooperation in the field of agriculture.
After nearly two years of development, the Sino-Ukrainian Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Park in Syrdarya Prefecture, Uzbekistan, built and operated by Yangling Modern Agricultural International Cooperation Co., Ltd., has built 108 mu of modern facilities agricultural greenhouses, 1000 mu of drip irrigation grape demonstration garden, 1260 mu of agricultural machinery operation oil crop demonstration garden, and 1132 mu of other cash crops such as field cotton. At the China-Ukraine Water-saving Agriculture Overseas Demonstration Park in Uzbekistan, Zhu Delan, a professor at the College of Water Conservancy and Architecture Engineering of Northwest A&F University, brought her team and an intelligent integrated irrigation system of water and fertilizer here, helping to increase crop yields by 30%, save 50% of water consumption, and reduce cost input by 40%.
On September 19, 2022, a China-Europe train loaded with Yangling's characteristic agricultural products departed from the International Port Station of Xi'an International Port Area to Uzbekistan. After 12 days of running against the wind, this special train full of Yangling's enthusiasm and characteristic agricultural products arrived in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
At the end of December 2022, the China (Shaanxi) Commodity Exchange Center was opened in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, and agricultural machinery equipment, irrigation equipment, Chunhua apple, northern Shaanxi millet, southern Shaanxi tea and other products have been exhibited. In the future, the trading center will continue to enrich product categories, strengthen driving functions, and strive to become an information service highland and industrial cooperation highland serving the economic and trade exchanges of SCO countries, and accelerate economic and trade exchanges in agricultural machinery and equipment, people's livelihood department stores, etc.
On April 13, 2023, the Comprehensive Training Course on Advanced Applicable Agricultural Technologies for Central Asian Countries, hosted by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China and undertaken by Yangling Demonstration Zone, was held in Yangling. 87 participants from agricultural departments, scientific research institutions, universities and other units in five countries, including Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, gathered in the "cloud" to strengthen mutual learning and exchanges, collide ideas and promote exchanges and cooperation in the field of modern agriculture.
On June 20, 2023, a batch of cherries from Fergana Oblast, Uzbekistan, arrived at Xi'an Airport by air plane from Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. This is an important measure for the Yangling Demonstration Zone to implement the outcomes of the China-Central Asia Summit, and opens up new channels for expanding agricultural product trade between the Yangling Demonstration Zone and Central Asian countries.
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In May this year, on the occasion of the China-Central Asia Summit, Yangling received a letter of thanks from the Minister of Agriculture of Central Asian countries and Uzbekistan, Voitov: "Thank you to the Yangling Demonstration Zone International Exchange Center for holding a comprehensive training course on advanced and applicable agricultural technologies for Central Asian countries." This is the content of a letter of thanks from the Minister of Agriculture of Uzbekistan, Voitov. Although the text is short, the gratitude is overflowing.
In recent years, Yangling Demonstration Zone has established close cooperative relations with more than 60 countries by actively expanding new paths for agricultural opening to the outside world, carrying out more than 500 international exchange activities and organizing the implementation of more than 130 international cooperation projects. China has built a foreign aid training base for dryland agriculture, covering 110 countries. The establishment of the SCO agricultural base has opened a new era of cooperation and exchanges in the field of agriculture under the SCO framework.
With a new starting point and a new journey, the Yangling Demonstration Zone will take the high-level construction of the SCO agricultural base as the traction, give full play to the role of the Yangling Free Trade Area, Comprehensive Bonded Zone, Yangling Agricultural High School Association and other platforms for opening up to the outside world, take the initiative to strengthen pragmatic cooperation in the field of agriculture with SCO countries and even other countries in the world, accelerate the construction of a new pattern of international agricultural cooperation "based on China, radiate to the SCO, link the surrounding areas, and face the world", build the Yangling Demonstration Zone into a "Belt and Road" modern agricultural international cooperation center, and take the initiative to maintain the mainland's food security, Promote global agricultural development and contribute "Yangling power".
Reporter Xingbo Liu Zhihui
Edited by Yu Tingting