To celebrate the 65th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between China and Denmark, the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and the Royal Danish Embassy co-hosted the Conference on China-Denmark Agriculture Cooperation and Efficient Use of Natural Resources on 11 May at the Great Hall of the People.

Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of the CPAFFC, and Mr. Manu Sareen, Danish Minister for Children, Gender Equality, Integration and Social Affairs, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. About 200 people including Mr. Zhang Tianzuo, Director General of the Department of Sectoral Policy and Law, Ministry of Agriculture of the PRC, Mr. Hou Daijun, Deputy Director General of the Department of Nature and Ecology Conservation, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Mr. Esben Egede Rasmussen, Executive Director General of the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Mr. Kristoffer B?ttzauw, Executive Deputy Director General of the Danish Energy Agency, and government officials, agriculture and environmental protection experts and scholars, enterprise representatives of the two countries attended the Conference. The attendees exchanged views on agricultural policy, food safety, cooperation in agricultural production throughout the value chain, environmental protection, and renewable energy.

Conference participants also witnessed the signing of seven agreements covering the fields of energy, innovation, agriculture, dairy products, and education. As Copenhagen Fur has provided Xin Hualu Primary School in Xinzheng City of Henan Province with various teaching and learning opportunities, Xinhualu Primary School presented an work of graphic art made by themselves to His Excellency the Danish Ambassador to China, with the good wish for a fruitful and even closer friendship between China and Denmark.