Anhui Agricultural University Fanchang Innovation Port Project Signing

On 18th January, Ningbo, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, held working talks with Zhang Qingliang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Anhui Agricultural University (AAU) and his party, and witnessed the signing of the project of Anhui Agricultural University's Fanchang Innovation Port. Leaders of the city Hou Mingwen and Xiang Jihui attended.

Ningbo, on behalf of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, welcomed Zhang Qingliang and his delegation, he said, Wuhu is in the critical and rising period of "focusing on high quality, sprinting to 800 billion and building a sub-centre", particular emphasis on pooling of innovative resources, We hope that ANNU will give full play to its advantages in disciplines, scientific research and talents, have deep co-operation with Wuhu in science and technology innovation, talent training and industrial development. We will do our utmost to promote the early operation of the project and make more exploration and contribution to the promotion of comprehensive rural revitalisation and modernisation of agriculture and rural development.

Qingliang Zhang said, as a provincial sub-centre, Wuhu is at the forefront of economic and social development in the province and the country, with unlimited potential for future development. ANNU will seize the opportunity of the construction of Fanchang Innovation Harbour project, earnestly implement the provincial party committee put forward the "Anhui Agricultural University to do big, do well, do strong" instructions, and further deepen the cooperation between the university and the land, and strive to serve the revitalisation of the countryside with scientific and technological innovation, to build agricultural science and technology curators, and to help the high-quality development of Wuhu and the school of the "double first-class" construction.

According to reports, Anhui Agricultural University Fanchang innovation port project positioning for rural revitalisation of urgently needed innovative, complex talent training, regional agricultural leading characteristics of the green development of industry scientific research, agricultural results of the incubation and transformation of social services and other functions in the integration of the entity of the research institute.The project is located in the East New District of Fanchang District, with a total investment of about 1.05 billion yuan, covering an area of about 300 acres, with a building area of about 130,000 square metres, and constructing a centre for teaching and training, science and technology incubation, and results transformation.

Translated by Xu Mingxi from FESCO Foreign Affairs Service Center of Anhui Province