The 6th Member Congress was held in Beijing [2012-09-01]

On August 18, 2012, the 6th Member Congress and Academic Seminar of China Foreign Agricultural Economic Research Association was held in Beijing. The meeting elected a new leading body of the research association and held high-level academic seminars. More than 100 member representatives from Beijing and all over the country attended the one-day meeting.

The China Foreign Agricultural Economic Research Association was established in 1982 and registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 1991. It is a national academic organization under the supervision of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Its purpose is to unite all members, promote the research and exchange of foreign agricultural economy and international agricultural economy, trade and cooperation, and serve the construction of agricultural modernization. Since its establishment, the Research Association has successively set up five councils, including He Kang, deputy director of the State Agricultural Commission and minister of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery, Hong Fuzeng, vice minister of agriculture, and Xu Gengsheng, member of the standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee and researcher of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The Society has a glorious history. Since its establishment, it has carried out a large number of research, consultation, exchange and discussion, and training activities. The research topics involve world agricultural development models and strategies, national agricultural economies and policies, world agricultural product markets and price mechanisms, agricultural products International trade, GATT and WTO issues, world food security issues, food safety issues, agricultural modernization issues, etc., and published or published a large number of research results, many of the results are leading in the field.

The meeting is divided into two units: the member congress and the academic seminar, which are held in the morning and afternoon respectively.

The morning members' congress includes three links.

The first link is the meeting of member representatives, the main content is to review work reports, vote on various resolutions, and elect the board of directors. President Xu Gengsheng made a work report on behalf of the Fifth Council, reviewed the history of the Research Association, introduced and evaluated the work of the Fifth Council, and put forward expectations for the next Council. Secretary-General Du Zhixiong made an explanation of the amendment of the constitution and the collection of membership fees and the standard of membership fees. The research association revised the articles of association, appropriately adjusted the membership scope, purpose and business scope of the research association, standardized the rights, obligations and membership procedures of members, and added a board of supervisors. The above-mentioned report and resolution were adopted by a vote of the Members' Congress. Subsequently, the Member Congress elected the Sixth Council, with 87 members elected as members. The meeting also elected the board of supervisors, a total of 5 members were elected as supervisors.

The second part is the first meeting of the sixth Council. On the same day, all the elected directors who attended the members' Congress immediately held a board meeting, the main content of which was to elect the leading executive bodies, including the standing council, president, vice president, secretary general, and so on. A total of 48 directors were elected as executive directors, making up the Standing Council. Du Zhixiong was elected as the sixth president, Cheng Guoqiang and other 17 people were elected as vice presidents, and Tan Xuewen was elected as secretary-general. The Council also voted to approve the list of advisers and the list of deputy secretaries-general.

After the council, the new president Du Zhixiong convened a meeting of all member representatives. President Du Zhixiong explained to all the representatives the work direction, concept and method of the new council from the perspective of serving the overall development of the country and serving all members of the "two services", and the short-term key work of the research association. The content and goals put forward preliminary ideas.

At the academic seminar in the afternoon of the same day, Vice President Cheng Guoqiang discussed the current world food situation and China's response, Vice President Zhou Yingheng discussed the new trends of Japan's agricultural development, Executive Director Li Xiande discussed China-Africa agricultural trade and agricultural cooperation, and Executive Director Han A highly timely, wide-ranging and informative academic report on the progress of the international agricultural research system established by the Ministry of Agriculture of China in recent years. At the conference, five member authors, Yang Wanjiang, Peng Chao, Zhang Hongzhou, Liu Hecuang and Liu Xichuan, reported their latest research results on world food security, the impact of China's food imports on world food security, the progress and characteristics of the 2012 U.S. agricultural subsidy policy reform, the comparison of industrial linkages and spillover effects between China and the United States, and the new model of agricultural financing based on the agricultural industry chain. The academic report and the published content of the paper were highly recognized by the participants.

Vice President Wang Jianing and President Du Zhixiong presided over the paper publication and academic report meeting in the afternoon respectively.

Du Zhixiong finally made a concluding speech on behalf of the Council, saying that the new Council must carry out all kinds of work conscientiously and creatively, strive to serve the needs of members and serve them well, and at the same time, it should also open up resources and opportunities, build institutions and platforms, seriously organize its members to deepen their research on foreign agricultural economy, and create a new situation of foreign agricultural economic research and exchanges, to serve the prosperity of China's agricultural economic theory and the construction of agricultural modernization.