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Vice President of Zimbabwe and Agricultural Ministers of Six African Countries Visited China Agricultural Museum

Vice President of Zimbabwe and Agricultural Ministers of Six African Countries Visited China Agricultural Museum

Write: Jayant [2011-05-20]

Source: China Agricultural Museum

Vice President of Zimbabwe and Agricultural Ministers of Six African Countries Visited China Agricultural Museum

In the morning of 10 August, 36 representatives to China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation Forum, including Joice Mujuru, Vice President of Zimbabwe, Ignatious Chombo, Minister of Local Government, Urban and Rural Development and Joseph Made, Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development of Zimbabwe, John Mutorwa, Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry of Namibia, Peter Daka, Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Zambia, Mukaruliza Monique, Minister of East African Affairs of Rwanda, Margaret Mauwa, DeputyMinister of Agriculture and Food Security of Malawi, and Gothatamang Shushu, Department Headof North Cape Province of South Africa, accompanied by the relevant personnel from the International Department of the Central Committee of CPC, visited the exhibition of the Chinese agricultural civilization and the three-screen cinema at China Agricultural Museum.

During their visit, the representatives showed great interest in China s agricultural history and culture and marveled at the Dujiangyan Irrigation System built more than two thousand years ago.

Vice President Mujuru and other distinguished guests were warmly received and presented souvenirs of Picture of Farming and Weaving in Ancient China, etc. by a team of China Agricultural Museum led by Shen Zhenzhao, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Museum, Tang Ke, Head of the Museum, and Zhang Lijun, Deputy Head of the Museum, joined by four interpreters from the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture.

(Date: 15:26 20 August 2010)