Germany wants to deepen China agricultural trade ties by combating climate change suffering, eyes lifting of pork ban
- German diplomats have urged for deepen agricultural collaboration with China amid worsening climate change issues and global supply chain disruption
- They are also eager for China to resume imports of German pork, which have been banned since September 2020 due to African swine fever
China and Germany should deepen agricultural collaboration amid worsening climate change issues and global supply chain disruptions, said German diplomats, who are also hoping Beijing will relax its pork import ban.
Germany has the social responsibility to share the experiences and expertise of its highly-digitised agriculture sector, while China plays an important role due to its size and population, said Hendrik Barkeling, head of the economic department and minister counsellor at the German embassy in Beijing.
“There is no industry suffering [from climate change] as much as agriculture,” said Barkeling during the China (Gansu)-German AgriFuture Cooperation Conference in the northwestern city of Lanzhou, Gansu province, on Friday.
“Every country has a particular responsibility to combat these challenges to further increase efficiency in agricultural production, and at the same time to ensure the conservation of natural resources,” he added during the event co-hosted by the German Agricultural Society, German embassy in China and China Council for the Promotion of International Trade.
And that’s why in Germany there is increasing discussion about de-risking, there is the same discussion in Europe
Chinese representatives from more than a dozen German companies in the agricultural sector attended the conference, which was held in tandem with the annual Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair, together with numerous firms from across Gansu province and local officials.