Spain tightens agricultural cooperation with China
Vice Minister Qu noted that being one of the earliest counties to integrate sightseeing with agriculture, Spain has made remarkable achievements in featured agriculture based on local conditions, accumulating valuable experience that China could draw upon. He hoped that the two sides could increase exchanges and cooperation regarding rural governance, fruits and vegetables production, pelagic fisheries and agricultural managerial training, and enhance coordination and collaboration under multilateral frameworks such as the G20 and theWTO to safeguard common interests.
Gordino agreed with Vice Minister Qu, stressed the two countries enjoy great complementarities in agriculture and hoped to build on the memorandum of understanding on agricultural cooperation between the two ministries to increase exchanges of information and various forms of cooperation for agricultural development of both countries.
At the end of the meeting, Vice Minister Qu and Spanish Secretary General signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Agricultural Cooperation between the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment of the Kingdom of Spain.