Invited by project team of Dongting Lake watershed ecological village construction and environment-friendly agricultural technology Integration and Demonstration, TANIGUCHI  RYOICHI, deputy director of the Biwa Ko Environmental Science Research Center, visited Taoyuan Station for Agro-ecosystem Research (TYA) in Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISA) on March 14th. He was accompanied by other experts from Asia-Europe Water Resources Research and Utilization Center, Hunan Provincial Agriculture Department, Central South University of Forestory and Technology, Hunan Academy of Forestry and Hunan City University.
ISA Professor and director of TYA WEI Wenxue, introduced historical evolution and research direction of TYA to experts, guided them through long term experiment, standard runoff observation field and long term monitoring facility. Professor XIE Xiaoli presented the project status in Taoyuan. The experts praised TYA scientific research and test station management methods. Both parties expressed the strong desire to strengthen further cooperation in Scientific and technological in all aspects with the help of platform between Hunan and Shiga Prefecture
Reference: Hunan- Shiga cooperation
On May 25th ,1983, Hunan signed an agreement with Shiga as Sister cities for the curious relationship between lake Dong ding and lake Biwa. Hunan province and Shiga county have promoted cooperation in economic, scientific, education, cultural and environment protect on the basis of equality and mutual benefit .
In July 2013, DU Jiahao, Hunan's provincial governor, signed an agreement with Yukiko Kada, the governor of Shiga in the field of environmental protection cooperation. At the same time, hunan provincial science and technology department signed a Sewage disposal technology domain memoir with Biwa Ko Environmental Science Research Center. Hunan province and Shiga country cooperated in policy, talent, fund, techniques and product equipment etc, and good results had been achieved.
On August 10th, 2015,TONG Xudong, the director of hunan provincial science and technology department, signed the memorandum of development on water environmental and related industries with Fukunaga Chuck , Department of Shiga Tourism and Labor, which marks a brand new period of cooperative research, technology transfer, reinvigorate industries.
   
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                                                  The expert panel visited long term experiment

                                                  The expert panel visited demonstration sites

                                                                      The expert panel