Released on 18/12/12

On the afternoon of December 18, initiated jointly by Zhejiang University, China Agricultural University and Nanjing Agricultural University, "Crop Quality and Product Safety Collaborative Innovation Center" was officially launched at Zhejiang University. President Yang Wei attended the launching ceremony and presented the letters of appointment to members of the academic committee of the Center, and inaugurated the Center together with Academician Gai Junyi, Deputy Director of the academic committee.

Crop Quality and Product Safety Collaborative Innovation Center is mainly aimed at generating a mode of collaborative innovation to build an internationally pioneering platform of collaborative innovation, form and improve the mode of talent training, publish high-level research papers, turn out patents with prospects of application, and cultivate high-yield and high-quality new varieties. The Center will establish research platforms for basic biology, crop quality biology, crop stress biology, producing environmental regulation and green pest prevention and control . It plans to set 50 to 60 positions of primary investigators and about a thousand of other positions.

In his speech, President Yang Wei commented that crop quality and product safety are important issues related to people's livelihood, and that the development of agriculture-related disciplines calls for a larger platform. He also expressed the wish that the Center would effectively integrate relevant disciplines of collaborative units and make contributions to the promotion of quality of people's lives.

Vice-President Wu Ping signed a cooperation agreement with the six collaborative units on behalf of Zhejiang University. About 150 people attended the ceremony, including members of the academic committee, directors of relevant departments and representatives of teachers and students.

Source China Business News