Saturday, October 13, 2007

Shandong Ag Dept.

We met with representatives of the Department of Agriculture of Shandong Province, in the same room as the meeting with CCPIT yesterday. At all these meetings, Secretary Allbee does an outstanding job representing Vermont agriculture.

Roger's counterpart at this meeting was Mr. Liu Tong Li, Deputy Director-General. Also in the photo below is Mr. Qu Guoqing, Director of the Foreign Cooperation Division. The translator was Ms. Yu Lixia (Lisa).

Building on yesterday's meeting, we learned more about the agriculture in Shandong province. For example, we learned that Shandong province has a frost-free period averaging 200 days.