With the theme “Expanding Imported Food & Enriching People’s Life”, the Forum delivered a message to strengthen the international cooperation in food and agriculture, to promote healthy and orderly development of the food and agriculture industry in China, to ensure people’s health and safety and to satisfy the beautiful life expectation of the people from the countries along the Belt and Road. 

 

Gan Lin, Vice Minister of State Administration for Market Regulation

delivering a speech at Opening Ceremony

 

Presented leaders include, Gan Lin, Vice Minister of State Administration for Market Regulation, Li Xiaolin, President of Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Ren Hongbin, Assistant Minister of Commerce, Peng Chenlei, Vice Mayor of Shanghai Municipal People's Government, Chen Shun, Vice Governor of Yunnan Provincial People's Government, Tom Heilandt, Secretary of Codex Alimentarius Commission, Gian Franco Terenzi, Former President of the Republic of San Marino, Elchin Zeynalov, Vice Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Marija Vučković, Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Croatia, Innocent Lugha Bashungwa, Minister of Industry and Trade of United Republic of Tanzania and other representatives of agriculture and food industry from U.S.A, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada and more. 

 

Li Xiaolin, President of Chinese People's Association for Friendship with

Foreign Countries delivering a speech at Opening Ceremony

 

As the important new achievement of the Forum, the Belt and Road Agriculture and Food Trade Information Platform (version 2.0) was launched with witness of the presented leaders. The Platform focused on the international cooperation of agricultural and food products along the Belt and Road countries, to provide an efficient, reliable way of the bulk trading connecting suppliers and distributors.

 

Launch Ceremony of the Belt and Road Agriculture and Food Trade

Information Platform Version 2.0

 

The Belt and Road Eco-Agriculture and Food Safety Forum is once again being held as the official supporting event of the Shanghai CIIE following the successful year of 2018 with the grand launch of CIIE. New Era, Shared Future, the slogan of CIIE, also shares the same goal of the Forum: continue building platform for government and private sectors and keep on promoting the international cooperation for the agriculture and food industry.