The WAC is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for a host of frontier agriculture research projects.
The World Agricultural Centre (WAC), a new global hub for agricultural research, has opened in Harbin, the capital city of China’s northeastern province Heilongjiang. The WAC will have in driving forward the development of the agricultural sector in China and beyond.
The WAC builds on the legacy of the International Agricultural Technology Innovation Centre (IATIC) which was built as a part of Heilongjiang’s effort to build itself into a thriving international hub for agricultural innovation. A new, striking landmark for the city of Harbin, the World Agricultural Centre is the world’s tallest building dedicated to agricultural research. The WAC is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for a host of frontier agriculture research projects.
The Global Headquarters of DBN officially settled in the “World Agricultural Centre”, and introduced a number of international institutions such as the International Black Soil Research Institute of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Agricultural Economic Research Centre, and the International Agricultural Think Tank, and will be built as the permanent site of the annual World Agricultural Economic Forum here. As a result, China’s agricultural field will work together to build the world’s agricultural science and technology innovation highland, and promote world agriculture to China, and Chinese agriculture to the world.
