On October 12, the “Seminar on Biogas Industry Promotion and Management for Asian Countries in 2016”opened in Chengdu at Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture (BIOMA). The course is sponsored by Ministry of Commerce of China (MOFCOM) and organized by BIOMA. Senior officials from the Academy for International Business Officials (AIBO) of MOFCOM of China, Special Commissioner’s Office of MOFCOM in Chengdu and BIOMA were present at the opening ceremony.

Mr. XU Kai, Director of the Liaison Office of HR Development of AIBOextended warm welcome to seminar participants and hoped that this seminar would not only serve as a platform to learn technology but also help to develop friendship and cooperation between China and other Asian developing countries.

Ms. FU Yan, Deputy Special Commissioner of the MOFCOM in Chengdu Office said in her speech that biogas seminars are one form of the various foreign aid programs and have benefited many developing countries, hoped that participants could take back the biogas technologies to their home countries and make biogas training a role model for all foreign aid trainings.

Ms. CAI Ping, CPC Party Secretary and Deputy Director General of BIOMA introduced in her speech the biogas development situation in China and hoped that participants could conduct extensive and in-depth exchanges with BIOMA experts to share China’s biogas technology and experience.

Participant representative Ms. Ko Jo Vi from Malaysiaexpressed gratitude to China for inviting participants to this seminar. She believed that this seminar would help improve the waste management and environment in the respective countries of the participants.

This course is the 69th training session held by BIOMA since its establishment. It lasts for 21 days from October 10 to October 30, and has 57 participants from 8Asian countries. Participants will learn biogas technology and engineering design and visit typical biogas projects, and after staying in Chengdu for the first 10 days, they would then also go to Kunming of China’s southwestern Yunnan province and Beijing for study tours.

Wirter：Zhang Wen

Source：BIOMA