As part of ongoing agricultural cooperation between the Chinese
mainland and Taiwan, the China Agriculture Studies Village program
was launched on Sunday in east China's Shandong Province.
The program, aimed at strengthening technological exchange and
training, involves the construction of a 53.3-hectare campus in
Xixia, according to a local government source.
The institute will provide both tertiary education and
vocational training in agricultural studies.
To be named the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and
Taiwan Ping Tung University of Science and Technology, the
institute will admit its first batch of college students in
September 2009.
It is expected that the majority of the students who enroll will
be from Taiwan.
The institute will also provide training to
Chinese?mainland and Taiwan farmers.
(Xinhua News Agency October 23, 2006)