Sino-Israeli cooperation assists local agriculture

Sino-Israeli agricultural cooperation in China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region has not only boosted local agricultural development but also made the region a base for the exchange of knowhow domestically and internationally, officials said.

The two countries' Ningxia cooperation dates back to 2014, when heads of their top agricultural authorities included it into a Sino-Israeli agricultural cooperation memorandum, said Zhu Xuefeng, director of the international cooperative project management with the Ningxia agricultural and pastoral authority.

He said the cooperation has yielded good results with the establishment of a modern agriculture demonstration center in the Ningxia capital of Yinchuan in 2016. One of the world's leading irrigation solutions suppliers from Israel has set up a factory in the city.