Introduction of CSFAE

Introduction of CSFAE

Chinese Society of Foreign Agricultural Economy (CSFAE) is a state-level academic association registered at the Ministry of Civil Affairs established since the beginning of the reform. The CSFAE is a legal body of mass organization focusing on agricultural agricultural economy and policy research and project cooperation, administered by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and affiliated with the Rural Development Institute. As a not-for-profit organization, the CSFAE is composed voluntarily by persons who work in research or teaching on foreign agricultural economy or related fields. The purpose of the Society is to promote research and exchange of foreign agricultural economy and cooperation of international agricultural economy and trade, and its mission is to organize academic activities, promote academic exchanges, unite the members, and to serve the agricultural modernization.

In 1978, the initial year of reform, Prof. ZHENG Linzhuang with Chinese Renmin University wrote to Prof. HU Qiaomu, President of the CASS, suggesting establishing a specific academic association to strengthen knowledge on foreign agricultural economy. Under the requirement of President HU Qiaomu, the then Agricultural Economic Institute of CASS started to prepare the organization of the CSFAE and to organize researches meanwhile. The first member conference and workshop was held in 1982, on which the first Director’s Council was elected. The second through fifth member conferences were held in 1988, 1992, 1999 and 2005, respectively. Mr. HE Kang, former Vice President of State Agricultural Commission and Agricultural Minister, was elected as the first and second president of the CSFAE. Mr. HONG Fuzeng, former Vice Agricultural Minister, was the third president, and Prof. XU Gengsheng, research fellow with the Institute of World Economy and Politics of CASS, was the fourth and fifth president. The current administration body of the CSFAE is the sixth Director’s Council which was elected in 2012, with prof. DU Zhixiong, Vice Director of Rural Development Institute of CASS, as the sixth President.

Ever since the establishment, the CSFAE has focused on the following eight major fields:

• to organize and encourage the members to research on global important agricultural theoretical and practical problems;
• to introduce domestic and foreign agricultural development dynamics and organize information exchanges;
• to promote academic exchanges with international academic institutions, organize cooperative researches with foreign institutions, and to organize members to participate in international academic activities;
• to carry out research projects on foreign or international agricultural economy;
• to encourage and organize appraisal and election of excellent research outcomes;
• to implement training and consultation services;
• to organize edition and publication books and materials on foreign agricultural economy; and
• to report significant international agricultural problems to superior authorities and offer related policy recommendations.