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Situated in CABI’s most populous member country, and one of the fastest growing economies in the world, CABI has had a presence in China since 1980. Our centre in Beijing works across the whole of East Asia, a region that faces huge challenges of food security and environmental sustainability.

About

Work carried out by the centre is wide-ranging and addresses a variety of issues related to sustainable agriculture and environmental protection.

One of the key challenges for the region is food security. Staff at the centre work to address this in a number of ways, including through improving access-to-market for smallholder famers and helping them tackle plant health problems. Sustainable crop management is encouraged, and has delivered increased yields and improved food security.

The use of safe biological control methods to manage agricultural pests is promoted. The resulting reduction in use of pesticides by local farmers has helped protect local biodiversity and reduce the impact of agriculture on the local environment, as well as opening up increased trading opportunities.

With a lack of funds preventing many of the region’s libraries from stocking the latest scientific literature, the centre works to ensure access to cutting-edge scientific knowledge. Staff set up sponsorship and licensing arrangements, and bring together research and educational centres so that they can buy information resources in bulk at competitive rates. The centre also facilitates the flow of research information out of the region, and encourages technology transfer.

None of this can be achieved in isolation, and the centre works closely with a number of governmental agencies, research and extension institutions, including the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and many more.

Looking ahead, food security will continue to be a priority, and the centre also sees great scope for continued work around information provision and technology transfer for south-south cooperation.

How do CABI and China work together?

Over the past three decades, CABI and China have co-operated on a wide range of information and scientific areas, including integrated pest management methods for cotton in China and tackling invasive weeds, such as Mikania micrantha, water hyacinth and privet, which cause serious economic losses and threaten native biodiversity.

CABI works with China on capacity building and publishing, such as long-term abstracting arrangements to disseminate Chinese information worldwide. CABI has also been involved in the Chinese White Agriculture Program (Microbial Agriculture), concerned with the use of microorganisms to help meet the multiple challenges of significantly increasing food production in China.

In 2008, CABI joined with the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture to establish the Joint Laboratory for Biosafety at the Institute of Plant Protection in the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing. The partners are working together on invasive species, integrated pest management technologies and development of biopesticides. This joint initiative offers a platform for research collaboration, a centre for training and scientific exchanges, an open platform for joint collaboration with third parties and a consultancy service.

Contact us

Feng Zhang

Regional Director, East & South-East Asia

Beijing Representative Office, Internal Post Box 85, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhonggunancun Nandajie, Beijing 100081, China

T: +86 10 8210 5692

E: f.zhang@cabi.org

CABI - China

Beijing Representative Office, Internal Post Box 85, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhonggunancun Nandajie, Beijing 100081, China

T: +86 (0) 10 8210 5692

Centre staff

Min Wan

Senior Project Coordinator

Jinping Zhang

Project Scientist

Xin Chen

Centre Administrative Assistant

Bo Yuan

Finance Officer

Feng Zhang

Regional Director, East & South-East Asia

Hongmei Li

Senior Scientist

Invasive Blog

CABI contributes to study which reveals yellow-spined bamboo locust prefers wheat and rice to maize

13th December 2023
CABI Blog

Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA)-CABI Joint Laboratory for Biosafety celebrates landmark

8th November 2023
Invasive Blog

Annual meeting of Anhui-CABI Joint Lab in China highlights scientific progress in crop pest control

2nd August 2023
PlantwisePlus Blog

China’s plant doctors of tomorrow trained by CABI at Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University

9th May 2023

Documents

China centre newsletter - December 2023

News and updates from CABI's centre in China.

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China centre newsletter - June 2023

News and updates from CABI's centre in China.

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 11

October - December 2023

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 10

April - September 2023

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 9

January - April 2023

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 8

October - December 2022

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 7

July - September 2022

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 5 & 6

January - June 2022

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 4

September - December 2021

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 2 & 3

April - August 2021

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 1

January - March 2021

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CABI Project
Restoring grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Halting and reversing land degradation is one of the biggest challenges to meeting the targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals. This project aims to assess the effects of grassland degradation on soil functions on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and determine whether manipulation of plant functional diversity can accelerate the restoration of functioning of degraded soils.

Start:01/08/17 -End:31/07/19