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The Introduction of Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Industries Demonstration Zone Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Industries Demonstration Zone (Yangling Demonstration Zone in short is located in the center of the Guanzhong plain, Shaanxi Province, 82km away from Xi’an City in the east and 86km from Baoji city in the west, with a total area of 135km and a population of 200,000. Longhai railway and Lainhuo express way go across Yangling, Yangling enjoys an efficient transportation system. With warm temperate sub-humid monsoon climate, rich water resource and fertile soil, Yangling is suitable for the growth of various crops. Yangling is one of important birthplace of Chinese farming civilization. As early as 4000 years ago, Houji, the first-ranking official in charge of agriculture in the Chinese history, taught people how to grow crops here. In 1934, the national Northwest College of Agriculture and Forestry (predecessor of the current Northwest A&F University was founded here by senior Kuomingtang official Yu Youren and compatriot General Yang Hucheng, so Yangling became a place of origin for modern higher agricultural education of Northwest China. In the following decades, Yangling has developed into a famed ‘Agro-science’ city, with more than 70 disciplines and specialties in the fields of agriculture, forestry and water resources, and a total of about 5000 research members. With the approval of the Chinese State Council, Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Industries Demonstration Zone was founded on July 29, 1997, As the only state-level agricultural hi-tech industries zone in China, Yangling shoulders the historical mission of developing agriculture high-tech and industrialization. By means of technological innovation, technical popularization and demonstration, Yangling concentrates on agriculture sustainable development of agriculture in arid and semi-arid areas across China. Yangling Demonstration Zone is jointly constructed by 22 ministries, commissions, as well as Shaanxi
Provincial People’s Government. As an agency of Shaanxi Provincial People’s Government, the Administrative Committee of Yangling Demonstration Zone enjoys prefecture administrative power, provincial economic power and partial provincial administrative power. Since the foundation of Yangling Hi-tech Industries Demonstration Zone, Yangling has made great achievements in the infrastructure construction, industrial development, science and technology system reform, sci-tech demonstration and extension, and the social service and environment as well. A small backward town has been built into an energetic and prosperous modern agro-science city. In October, 2008, the third Plenary Session of the 17th Communist Party of China Central Committee made the strategic disposition of ‘the Continual Construction of Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Industrial Demonstration Zone’. According to Guanzhong—Tianshui Economic Zone Development Plan, Yangling would be built into a national modern agricultural hi-tech industrial base and the sub-core city in Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Zone with a total area of 35 kilometers and a population of 300,000. In Jan 12th, 2010, the state Council issued the official reply of Supporting the Construction of Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Industrial Demonstration Zone. Under the requirements of the official reply, Yangling should strive to become the important center of modern agricultural technology innovation in arid and semi-arid areas through 5 to 10 years