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GERMAN-SINO SYMPOSIUM ON SOIL SCIENCE AND SOIL PROTECTION NOV 17-20, 2015 2016 German-Chinese Agricultural Center (DCZ) Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) Final report compiled and edited by Dr. Marco Roelcke, DCZ German-Sino Symposium on Soil Science and Soil Protection November 17-20, 2015 Final Report Compiled and edited by Dr. Marco Roelcke (June 2016) Contents page Executive Summary 1 Summarizing report by Dr. Marco Roelcke, DZC (May 2016) 3 Reports by the six invited German experts (Dec. 2015-March 2016) 37 Summarizing report by Chinese side on Symposium and S&T Platform (Jan. 2016) 63 Annexes: 73 Workshop Programme 75 Participants list German side 85 Participants list Chinese side 89 1 Executive summary On November 17-18, 2015, a “German-Sino Symposium on Soil Science and Soil Protection” was jointly organized by the DCZ and the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning (IARRP) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). This major event was one of the activities of the DCZ during the “German-Sino Agricultural Week” (Nov. 16-19, 2015), and in a broader context, also a part of the UN-FAO “2015 International Year of Soils”. Over 130 participants (soil scientists, soil policy officers, German and Chinese agro-industry representatives, extension services, practitioners and students) attended the event on November 18. Topics dealt with in several sessions included Soil Protection Policy and Strategies, Cutting-edge Knowledge on Soil Science and Soil Protection, Transfer and Extension: Demonstration Farms in China, and Technological Solutions to Soil Protection. The Concluding Discussion Session was attended by the German Parliamentary State Secretary (BMEL) Mr. Peter Bleser and by Dr. Zhang Taolin, Vice Minister, Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), who took questions from the audience and both delivered their Topical Contributions to the Symposium. The Symposium began with a small pre-discussion round on Soil Protection attended by high-level German and Chinese scientists and interested persons on November 17th. A follow-up tour to the Huanghai State Farm in Jiangsu Province with visit fields took place November 19-20, in connection with the opening of the “Sino-German Crop Production and Agrotechnology Demonstration Park (DCALDP)”. Fig. 1: General view of Symposium of Soil Science and Soil Protection, Nov. 18, 2015 (photo: CAAS). 2 German-Sino Symposium on Soil Science and Soil Protection Summarizing report by Dr. Marco Roelcke, DZC. Background, Problems in Europe and Germany The year 2015 was declared as the “International Year of Soils 2015” (IYS 2015) by the UN 68th UN General Assembly (A/RES/68/232) in December 2013, also based on the initiative of His Majesty the King Bumibhol Adulyadej of Thailand. The IYS aimed to be a platform for raising awareness of the importance of soils for food security and essential eco-system functions. A multitude of international and national events followed, such as the Global Soil Partnership, and the release of the “Status of the World's Soil Resources Report” in December 2015, etc. The idea for a “soil event” at the German-Chinese Agricultural Center was first brought forward by Mr. Klaus Supp, from the Division 624 (International Projects, Twinning) of the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), during a meeting of German and Chinese officials from the BMEL, Division 624 and Division 224 (Research and Innovation), the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Department of International Cooperation and Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning (IARRP), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and the Agricultural Counsellor Veterinary Affairs, German Embassy, at the CAAS on March 15, 2015. Symposium preparation, Institutional involvement The German-Chinese Agricultural Center (DCZ) was formally opened by the German Minister of Agriculture Christian Schmidt and his Chinese colleague Minister Han, Changfu on March 23, 2015. Shortly thereafter, the soil topic was included in the planning of the DCZ’s work programme for 2015 between the Permanent Directors of the German and the Chinese sides, Mr. Conrad Graf von Hoyos and Mr. Yu Ge. By agreement between the Implementing Agency for the DCZ on the Chinese side, the Foreign Economic Cooperation Center (FECC) and the partner for the scientific component of the DCZ on the Chinese side (CAAS), this “soil event” was to take place at the CAAS. Since May 2015, the planned symposium was included in the draft plans for the first “German-Chinese Agricultural Week” (Deutsch-Chinesische Agrarwoche, DCAW) to be held in November 2015 in occasion of the visit by the German Parliamentary State Secretary (PStS.) (BMEL) (corresponding to a Chinese Vice Minister), Dr. Peter Bleser, to Beijing. The Division of “International Projects, Twinning” of the Department of International Cooperation of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), and the Division of European Affairs, Department of International Cooperation of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) were the supervising institutions of the Symposium. The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) was the executing agency. Operationally, the Workshop was organized by the two implementing agencies of the research component of the DCZ, the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAAS) with its Institute of Agricultural Resources and 3 Regional Planning (IARRP). The joint costs for holding the Symposium were equally split between DCZ (GIZ project) and the IARRP of CAAS. The German and Chinese sides were responsible for the costs for the invited German and Chinese scientific experts, respectively. The invited German company representatives covered the costs by themselves. From the beginning of detailed planning of the Symposium as part of the DCAW in June 2015, a broad and comprehensive perspective on different aspects regarding soil was aimed at. The topics were to be grouped along the following five main sessions: Soil protection policy and strategies including international perspectives of soil protection, Scientific session presenting newest research results in soil science, Transfer and extension, Technological solutions, Agricultural Policy Dialogue on Soil Protection with a Discussion with Vice- Ministers. Detailled organization of the Symposium was done by Dr. Marco Roelcke (DCZ) and Prof. Dr. Zhang, Bin and his co-workers, in close communication with officials in charge of research at IARRP of CAAS. Selection of participants from the German and Chinese soil science community and German, Chinese and international participants from various institutions began in July 2015. The early and positive replies by the President of the International Union of Soil Science (IUSS) as well as by the future President (starting January 2016) of the German Soil Science Society (DBG) were instrumental for inviting other renowned German and Chinese soil science experts with outstanding research experience, many of whom also reflected long-term Sino-German research collaboration in soil science and related fields. For the session on Soil protection policy and strategies including international perspectives, contacts were made with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the EU Joint Research Center (JRC) in Ispra (Italy), the EU Delegation in Beijing, the German Umweltbundesamt (UBA) (Federal Environment Agency) and the corresponding Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB), as well as the Chinese Union of Soil Science and Soil Protection, located at the Nanjing Institute of Soil Science (CAS). The aim was to invite the experts primarily based on their expertise, and this included some experts from institutions outside the purely agricultural political framework. For the Transfer and Extension Session, a balance between different models and approaches was aimed at, taking into account the different farm-structures and various agricultural models co-existing in China. For the Technological Solutions Session, several representatives from German agroindustry companies with long-term experiences in China, as well as a Chinese scientist on agricultural mechanization and tillage were invited. For the Concluding Discussion in presence of the German PStS. (BMEL) and the Chinese Vice Minister (MOA), it was finally agreed between the German and Chinese Ministries that these politicians at deputy-ministerial level should attend the final contributions to the Symposium, and then be participating with questions and discussion from the podium and floor in an open setting, before delivering their own topical contributions. At the suggestion of the representative from the German BMUB, a small discussion round on Soil Protection was organized during the afternoon of the first day of the Symposium (Nov. 4 17). The main part of the Symposium was held on Nov. 18, 2015. A follow-up tour to the “Sino-German Crop Production and Agrotechnology Demonstration Park” (Deutsch- Chinesischer Ackerbau- und Landtechnik-Demonstrationspark, DCALDP) on the Huanghai State Farm in Jiangsu Province, coinciding with its official opening, was organized for interested participants on Nov. 19-20, 2015. Due to time constraints during the visit of PStS. Bleser during the Agricultural Week, it was decided by the MOA to hold the official inauguration of the “German-Sino Agricultural Science and Technology Cooperation Platform”, which had originally