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Overview

Our support to China focuses on collaborative projects in areas of mutual interest, this collaboration started back in 1984.

The ACIAR country strategy and work in China involves substantial co-investment from Chinese partners with a focus on five main features and targets. These include improving grain production, promoting agricultural structural adjustments, developing primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas, ensuring farm product quality and safety and developing eco-friendly agriculture.

Country priorities

  • Developing policies and institutions to manage grasslands.
  • Integrating crop–livestock systems in favourable areas of Tibet and the rangelands of north-western China.

Active projects by program area

Country manager
Country Manager China

Mr Wang Guanglin

Guanglin joined ACIAR in 1998, and became ACIAR Country Manager for China in 2011. He is based in Beijing. Before joining ACIAR, Guanglin worked for two years at the Defence Section of the Australian Embassy in Beijing. Guanglin has a background in business administration and more than 20 years’ experience working on agriculture development in China. In his current role as Country Manager, he is exploring opportunities for ACIAR and China to work with other countries on common opportunities and challenges in agriculture.

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