Governor Mao Inspects Central China (Hunan) Agricultural Expo

On October 27, Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Hunan governor, inspected the Changsha International Convention and Exhibition Center where the 24th Central China (Hunan) Agricultural Expo (CCHAE) was ongoing.

Governor Mao emphasized the importance of fully implementing President Xi Jinping's important discourse on the issues relating to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. He called for giving full play to the functions of CCHAE as a platform to promote innovation and cooperation in agricultural science and technology, display new technologies, products, and outcomes of modern agriculture, and showcase broader and higher-level achievements of high-quality agriculture development.

Vice Governor of Hunan Province Li Dianxun attended the inspection.

Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Hunan governor, inspected the Changsha International Convention and Exhibition Center where the 24th Central China (Hunan) Agricultural Expo (CCHAE) was ongoing.

The leaders and distinguished guests present included: provincial leaders Zhang Yingchun and He Jihua; officials and envoys of Samoa, Mali, Malawi, and Laos in China; and, Hunan Provincial People's Government Secretary General Qu Hai.

Governor Mao talks with Laauli Leuatea Polataivao Fosi, Samoa minister of agriculture and fisheries.

An international pavilion was specially set up at the expo. Nearly 30 overseas enterprises from nine countries participated and displayed their specialty goods, such as coffee beans from Laos, cocoa butter from Mali, and honey from Malawi. Governor Mao talked with the foreign exhibitors and learned about the sales of the goods. CCHAE is a platform for modern agriculture exchange, cooperation, and development, he said. He expected to join hands with all countries, in particular the BRI partners, leveraging respective agricultural superiorities, broadening agricultural collaboration fields, and innovating cooperation forms, so as to benefit the people with more agricultural cooperation outcomes.

Governor Mao communicates with a visitor. 

Hunan-brand agricultural specialties were popular at the expo, such as Ningxiang's pork, Xiangtan's lotus seeds, Hengyang's tea oil, and Shibadong Village's kiwi fruit. Governor Mao visited the agricultural specialty and pre-cooked dishes areas, and thumbed up for the goods of wide varieties and distinctive characteristics. He stressed giving full play to the advantages of Hunan cuisines in raw materials and flavors, extending the industrial chain of agriculture, and increasing the added value of agricultural products. He also asked to further industrialize and standardize the pre-cooked dishes industry to ensure food safety.

Governor Mao learns about precooked dishes development. 

Hunan is a major supplier of grain, vegetables, and edible oil in China, said Mao. Since its initiation in 1999, CCHAE has displayed 210,000 varieties of exhibits and achieved a total transaction volume of 259.5 billion CNY. It has become a large comprehensive agricultural event boasting the largest size, profound influence, and high reputation around the country. Governor Mao asked to further give play to the functions of CCHAE as a window as well as a platform, continuing to increase supply of high-quality agricultural products and expanding the marketing and introduction channels for famous, specialty, and new agricultural products, to promote Hunan products to the world while introducing quality agricultural products into Hunan. He urged to develop local specialty sector through fostering leading enterprises, complementing the industrial chains, bolstering business patterns, and building brands, so as to improve the modern agricultural system and give the incremental benefit to the rural areas and farmers. He also called for boosting agricultural science and technology innovation, developing high-level innovation platforms, and making breakthroughs in core technologies and industrialized applications, to make contributions to accelerating the realization of agricultural science and technology self-reliance and self-strengthening at higher levels.