On the afternoon of June 8, Xian Chunlong, the vice president of the school, led a team to the South Subtropical Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the South Asia Institute) to carry out the signing ceremony of the Agricultural Science and Education Cooperation Talent Training Base Agreement and Visiting Enterprises to Promote Posts. Employment special action. Also accompanied by Hu Guibing, Dean of the School of Horticulture, Ma Qiang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the School, and staff of the School Office.

At the meeting on the 9th, Vice President Xian Chunlong and Director Du Liqing first introduced the main participants of the two parties. Next, Director Du Liqing briefly reported the cooperation achievements of the two parties in terms of talents in recent years, including the joint training of 7 postdoctoral and master students by the South Asia Institute and South China Agricultural University in recent years, relying on the talent training base of Zhanjiang Litchi and Longan Agricultural Science and Education Cooperation of South China Agricultural University A total of more than 600 undergraduate interns have been trained.

Subsequently, the two parties held the signing ceremony of the Agricultural Science and Education Cooperation Talent Training Base Agreement.

President Hu Guibing said that the two sides thoroughly implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important reply to the secretary, principals and expert representatives of agriculture-related colleges and universities across the country, and thoroughly implemented the trilogy of Anji Consensus, Beida Cang Action and Beijing Guide for the construction of new agricultural sciences. The School of Horticulture and the South Asia Institute have maintained a very good cooperative relationship. Now, based on the principle of complementary advantages, resource sharing, mutual benefit and win-win, and common development, on the basis of the scientific and technological cooperation ceremony, jointly build a talent training base for agricultural science and education cooperation .

Next, in order to implement the spirit of the Ministry of Education's Notice on Carrying out the National Special Action for College Secretaries and Principals to Visit Enterprises and Promote Employment, effectively gather resources from all parties in the society, and expand high-quality employment positions, Deputy Secretary Ma Qiang briefly introduced the employment of students this year. I hope that the South Asia Institute will continue to provide better treatment and job opportunities for our school and our graduates.

The South Asia Institute also made a brief report for the participants. Up to now, there are 25 Huanong graduates working in the South Asia Institute (16 males and 9 females, of which 2 new Huanong doctors and 1 master will be recruited in 2022). Involving professional botany, plant pathology, fruit tree science, post-harvest science of horticultural products, agricultural product processing and storage, vegetable science, applied chemistry, landscape architecture, etc., 7 of them hold the post of director of the research office, with an average age of 41 years old, has become a South Asian The backbone of the research work of the Institute, and expressed that he would warmly welcome South China Agricultural University to introduce more outstanding agricultural talents to work in the South Asia Institute in the future.

In the end, Vice President Xian Chunlong made a conclusion, hoping that the two sides will work together in talent training and social services in the future, and hope that Hua Nong students can shoulder the heavy responsibility after coming to the South Asia Institute, get the key training of the South Asia Institute and strengthen the students practical skills and social practice. It is also expected that both parties will better undertake the glorious task of cultivating agricultural professionals for the country and for the locality in the future.

(Photo by Wang Yingbo)