Beijing, China
April 11, 2016

The Tropical Agricultural Technology Transfer Center and the Tropical Agriculture International Training Center of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) were established in Haikou on April 6, 2016. This is an important step of CATAS to implement the national Belt and Road Initiative, with an aim to accelerate the transfer and application of tropical agricultural technologies at home and abroad and tap domestic and overseas talent resources.　

In recent years CATAS has vigorously promoted technology transfer and application in tropical areas around the world. CATAS has dispatched over 100 experts for foreign-aid training programs, providing advanced technologies to countries and regions in Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin-America and the South Pacific Islands. Meanwhile, CATAS has made remarkable achievements in international training activities. It has organized over 60 international workshops for nearly 2000 students from more than 100 developing countries, and held over 20 outbound training courses in Congo-Brazzaville, Tanzania, Mozambique, and so on. 

Website: http://www.agri.gov.cn

Published: April 11, 2016