Photo 2019

We arrived in Handan of Hebei Province by high speed rail and drove for an hour to visit the experiment station of China Agricultural University in Quzhou County. The Deputy Director of the station, Dr Zhang Hongyan, introduced its history to us. In the evening, Professor Jiang Rongfeng hosted a dinner for us. At the request of state leaders, China Agricultural University established itself in Quzhou in 1973 to deal with the prefecture’s problem of saline-alkali land. It has since formed an inseparable link with Quzhou. The university’s attempt in dealing with saline-alkali land has achieved huge success and has been applied in other places. It has also gained international recognition. In 2009, the university began to station staff in villages to seek a close understanding of the problems the farmers had with their farmland and to offer solutions. These bases are called Science and Technology Courtyards. There are the university’s postgraduates manning each base and they shoulder the responsibility of helping to solve the farmers’ problems.