Inaugural U.S.-China Agriculture Roundtable Advances Critical Global Issues
Given the critical importance of U.S.-China collaboration in addressing global challenges in food security, climate volatility and pandemic human and animal diseases, between March 23 and April 8, the U.S. Heartland China Association hosted a four-part virtual Agricultural Roundtable that brought together an exceptional array of American agribusiness CEOs, bipartisan government officials, commodity group executives and Land Grant and HBCU Deans with Chinese counterparts to identify “The Way Forward from Shared Challenges to a Shared Future.”
Over the course of four dialogues, just weeks before a U.S.-China cooperative agreement on climate change was reached, leaders from the agriculture industry and academia agreed that collaborations in agriculture, especially as pertaining to climate change, are crucially important and perhaps the best path forward for close collaborations between the two largest economies of our world.
At what he calls the “most significant event in the last several years” to promote enhanced U.S.-China scientific cooperation and agricultural trade, former Governor Bob Holden, Chairman of the US Heartland China Association (USHCA) said, “I am very pleased that leaders from across the Ag ecosystem, senior officials from the soy, dairy and pork industries and senior educational leaders from Tuskegee, UC-Davis, Ohio State and Texas A&M joined us for this significant dialogue.” He also expressed his appreciation to Ambassador Lin Songtian, president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and Dr. Wang Lei, Director General of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for their leadership in co-organizing this Roundtable and to all Chinese participants who joined this significant dialogue.
This inaugural agriculture roundtable was dedicated to three pioneers in agriculture whose accomplishments helped shape modern agriculture and enabled farmers to feed millions of people around the world: Norman Borlaug, Yuan Longping, and George Washington Carver.
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