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On the afternoon of October 14, the Africa-China Agri-Tech and Industrial Cooperation Forum of the 2025 World AgriFood Innovation (WAFI) Conference was held at the Beijing Jinhai Lake International Convention and Exhibition Center. BUA's Vice President Wu Yan attended the forum on behalf of BUA and delivered an important speech at the roundtable discussion.

Building on last year's session, the 2025 Africa-China Agri-Tech and Industrial Cooperation Forum held in Beijing represents a concrete step to further deepen and advance China-Africa cooperation on agriculture, fostering "think tanks of ideas" and "accelerators of actions" for China-Africa collaboration on agricultural science and technology.

During the roundtable discussion themed "China-Africa Agricultural S&T Innovation Cooperation and Talent Exchange", Wu Yan shared BUA's practices and insights, with the focus on issues such as joint talent training, mutual dispatch of talents, and young scientist exchanges in China-Africa agricultural cooperation. She proposed implementing "demand-oriented and order-based joint training", and customizing courses and research projects to train local agricultural talents, and establishing a training and exchange mechanism characterized by two-way interaction and integration of theories and practice, to promote talent mobility and technological optimization. She also suggested building a "full-chain achievement tracking and conversion support platform", to help take China-Africa cooperation on agricultural science and technology to a new height. Vice President Wu Yan further recommended that over the next 3-5 years, focus should be shifted to three aspects: driving green agriculture and the use of sustainable agricultural inputs, and integrating "smart agriculture" with "green and applicable technologies"; promoting low-cost technologies and agricultural condition monitoring systems, and building a green cooperation ecosystem across the chain from soil to table; and developing demonstration farms, processing centers, and joint laboratories.

The forum was hosted by China Agricultural University, guided by the Beijing Association for Science and Technology, and co-undertaken by BUA and Beijing Jingwa Agricultural Science & Technology Innovation Center.