Academician Zhang Yaping, who’s also Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), headed up a group of CAS officials to XTBG on April 14. Their tour was for investigation and work guidance and looked into the implementation progress of the “Innovation 2020” and “One-Three-Five” plans (one positioning, three great breakthroughs and five major development directions)” of the Botanical Garden.

Prof. Chen Jin, director of XTBG, made a work report concerning the overall status of the Garden, its “One-Three-Five” development plan, its development direction and the existing problems.

Vice President Zhang Yaping gave high remarks to the work report by Dr. Chen Jin. He approved XTBG’s recent achievements in the planning of development. He encouraged XTBG to strive for becoming a world first-class botanical garden, a high-level research base for plant diversity and ecology, and contributing more to the protection and utilization of tropical biological resources.

Zhang Yaping had a deep discussion with all leaders, research scientists, and heads from management and supporting departments on such issues as talent introduction and cultivation, personnel education system, platform construction, raising primitive innovation capacity, and improving comprehensive competitiveness etc.

Moreover, XTBG leaders accompanied vice president to visit the living collections, cultivation base of resource plants, and tropical rainforest within the Garden.

　  Accompanying the inspection tour were CASsecretary-general Deng Maicun, CAS vice secretary-general Pan Jiaofeng, and President Wang Qingli of CAS Kunming Branch.

Visiting the Museum

At the cultivation base of physic nut trees

At the Central Laboratory

Presentation meeting

Zhang Yaping speaking

Zhang Yaping and his companions at the Palm Garden