On February 14th, the 2017 Yichang City (Yiling District) Conference on Promoting Collaborative Innovation and the Study Session of the Central Group of the Yiling District Party Committee were held at the District Government Affairs Center. Professor Jin Yong from Tsinghua University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Li Jiancheng, the Vice President of Wuhan University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Wang Yinghua, the Deputy Mayor of Yichang City, Wang Xiwei, the Secretary of the District Party Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the District People's Congress, some district-level leaders, and a number of enterprise representatives attended the conference.

Liu Zufeng, the Chairman of Hubei Yishizhuang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., was invited to participate in the meeting and signed a project cooperation agreement with the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. At this meeting, renowned universities such as Tsinghua University, Wuhan University, China University of Geosciences, and Huazhong Agricultural University respectively signed 27 project cooperation agreements with the enterprises in our district, taking a step forward in further deepening the cooperation among industry, university and research institutions and accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
