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The 32^nd Concours Mondial Bruxelles, the best-known wine event in the world, the 1^st "Chuangshu Cup" Vocational Skills Competition for Wine Industry Professionals, and the 5^th China (Ningxia) International Wine Culture and Tourism Expo were recently opened in Yinchuan, Ningxia. The Concours Mondial Bruxelles attracted 7,165 kinds of wine from 49 countries, and gathered together 378 judges from 55 countries. A teachers' team from the Department of Brewery Engineering of BUA's College of Food Science and Engineering was invited to the activities, and Professor Li Demei was invited to act as a judge for the Concours Mondial Bruxelles and make a keynote report at the event.

As a representative of experts in China’s grape and wine field, Li Demei delivered a report titled Chinese Wine: Terroir and Development Through Time. Proceeding from the history of Chinese wine revealed in archaeological discoveries, the report elaborated the development of China’s wine industry that spans more than 3,000 km and 32 latitudes, and systematically summarized the diverse landscape of terroir in China and the evolution path of China’s wine industry, outlining a map of terroir and history for Chinese wine for the judges from different countries. This was also the first time that the terroir picture and industrial evolution of Chinese wine were presented in the form of a special report at the Concours Mondial Bruxelles.

Based on tasting the wine samples from different areas, Wei Xiaofeng, Pang Xiaona, and Ling Mengqi, young teachers from the Department of Brewery Engineering of the College of Food Science and Engineering, provided suggestions for participating enterprises, and expressed hope that the enterprises will offer more internship and employment opportunities for BUA’s students.

As a long-term practitioner and leader in China’s wine industry, Professor Li Demei has been dedicated to the industry for more than two decades, conducting fieldwork in major wine-producing areas across China all year round. Engaged as a wine industry consultant to local governments in Huailai, Hebei Province, and Bayingolin, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, among others, he has made important contribution to local wine industry from planting and field management to brewage and marketing. He insists on combining classroom teaching with industrial practice, while continuously providing training resources for young teachers and guiding their growth. By measuring China’s terroir with footsteps and meeting industrial needs by cultivating talents, he has contributed “BUA’s solution” to the development of the grape planting and wine-making industry.