Chinese water researchers meet
HARRISBURG Two engineers
from China’s Ministry of Water
Conservancy have arrived here to
begin a four-week trip across the
United States to study U.S. ap
plications of remote sensing in
crop forecasting and agricultural
hydrology. They met with Soil
Conservation Service personnel
here last week.
Quentin M. West, director of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Office of International Cooperation
and Development, said the
engineers are the first of 11 ex
change teams the Chinese will
send to the United States this year
under the agreement of
cooperation in science and
technology signed by the two
nations in 1979. The United States
will send 12 scientific exchange
teams to China in 1981, West'said.
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Eleven teams visited China in 1980
and three in 1979.
West said that the scientific
exchanges between the United
States and the People’s Republic of
China would benefit both coun
tries.
“The Chinese have had many
centuries of experience in dealing
with soil conservation, land juse
and related agricultural ‘ac
tivities,” he said. “We can leam
from each other.”
The Chinese team is spending its
first week here in discussions with
USDA’s Soil Conservation Service.
West said the Chinese are in
terested in technical aspects of
activities in which SCS is involved
with regard to hydrology,
watersheds and riverbed
technology and the AgRISTARS
project.
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and Exploration Department,
Yangtze Valley Planning Office in
Wuhan; and Yang Jicheng, deputy
chief of remote sensing. Ap
plication Center, Ministry of Water
Conservancy, Beijing, China.
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