The Council held the second president's office meeting to consider a number of issues [2013-03-15]

The second president's office meeting was held to consider a number of issues.

On March 9, 2013, President Du Zhixiong convened the second president's office meeting in Beijing. Vice presidents He Xiurong, Jiang Changyun, Sun Dongsheng, Tan Qiucheng, Tang Zhong, Wang Jianing, Xu Hui, Zhou Yingheng, Zhu Lizhi and Secretary General Tan Xuewen attended the meeting, and some deputy secretaries general attended the meeting as nonvoting delegates.

The meeting is divided into six items on the agenda, namely: issuing letters of appointment and membership cards, reviewing and adopting various systems, reviewing and adopting the list of directors, standing directors and new members to be added, discussing the addition of honorary presidents, discussing the development plan of members, discussing the construction of websites and "foreign agriculture" literature databases, and discussing the outline and operation methods of "world agriculture.

The meeting fully affirmed the importance of establishing rules and regulations, discussed in detail and adopted in principle the existing draft of four rules and regulations, including the president's office meeting system, the financial management system, the draft regulations on member development and job nomination in the meeting, and the working system of the Secretariat, and proposed amendments to some questions in the documents. The meeting decided that the vice presidents would return their written amendments within ten days after the meeting, and the secretariat would send them to all directors for deliberation and approval after centralized amendments.

According to the spirit of the first president's office meeting and based on the member development and post nomination regulations just passed in principle, the meeting deliberated and approved the list of new members, additional directors and executive directors. It is believed that these additional directors and executive directors are all outstanding talents in the field of agricultural economy, and they are also willing to participate in the activities of the research society. Their addition is conducive to the growth of the strength of the research society and the development of activities. The meeting considered a total of 8 new members, 6 directors and 4 executive directors (of which the executive director was also added as a director). The new members are: Hui Guoqin, Luan Jingdong, Luo Jianchao, Liu Xianwu, Zeng Yuhuan, Yao Lina, Huang Qinghua and Wen Tao. The additional directors are: Liu Xuedong, Dai Yongzhong, Chen Danmei, Gao Lei, Huang Qinghua and Wen Tao. The additional executive directors are: Luan Jingdong, Luo Jianchao, Hui Guoqin and Liu Xianwu. The list of additional directors and executive directors is pending approval by the Council.

The meeting discussed the issue of adding honorary presidents and feasible candidates, affirmed its feasibility, and will continue to discuss this matter in the future in conjunction with the organization and construction of the research society.

The meeting affirmed the importance of vigorously developing new members, and believed that vice presidents should bear the responsibility of developing members more than ordinary members, and also have more advantages. The meeting agreed to the member development plan proposed by the secretariat, including member introduction and website publicity. At the same time, the vice presidents took the initiative to undertake the member development work and instructed the secretariat to propose an operation plan for member development through the vice presidents as soon as possible.

The Secretariat showed the current website construction situation to the meeting, and the vice presidents put forward specific suggestions on the website image logo, columns, data collection, update and maintenance. Vice President He Xiurong took the initiative to further modify and maintain the website. The vice-presidents also suggested possible sources of foreign agricultural economic data.

Based on the proposal of the first president's office meeting, the secretariat, under the guidance of the president, wrote the writing outline of "World Agriculture: Patterns and Trends" and the corresponding operating methods. This book will echo the works of the same name written by former vice president Ding Zeji in the 1990 s. The meeting had a heated discussion on this outline. The content design will study the overall design and brand building of the book department, the specific content of each chapter of the bibliography, and how to select the author. In view of the difficulty of operation of this book, no consensus has been reached on the content and operation. The meeting instructed the secretariat to further refine the outline and operation plan.

[Updated: 2013-03-15]