Vientiane September 27, Xinhua News Agency (by reporter Rong Zhongxia) - General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) dispatched a delegation on the 20th to 26th to carry out in Laos pre-inspection of rice to be exported to China to ensure the quality safety of rice that was going to be exported to China.

The Delegation of AQSIQ is inspecting rice producing and processing company

As introduced, in order to ensure quality safety of rice to be exported to China, maintain healthy of Chinese consumers and safety of agricultural production, and promote the trading business, AQSIQ dispatched three experts in total to Laos as per the Protocol of Phytosanitary Requirements for the export of rice from Laos to China and free of quarantine pests concern to China. The Team of Experts of the Delegation carefully inspected the rice growing base, processing enterprises, ports, phytosanitary facilities in Vientiane and Savannakhet Province.

The Delegation of AQSIQ is inspecting a rice growing base.

The head of the Delegation told the reporter of Xinhua News Agency that Laos is located in the central region of Southeast Asia on the east bank of Mekong River, presenting an obvious regional advantage. As an agriculture country dominated by rice growing, export of Laotian rice to China can drive the development of local agricultural economy and promote mutual benefits and two-win results. This can also play a leading and demonstrative role in Southeast Asia, being feasible measures to put into practice the Belt and Road. Besides, this also serves China’s “goglobal” strategy in agriculture. Rice Laos prepares to export to China was produced by Hunan Xuanye – the first Chinese “goglobal” company in agriculture in Laos. Hunan Xuanye has brought Chinese agricultural technology, capital and market resources to Laos and produced medium and high-end rice to China by means of capacity cooperation plus the use of local natural resources and labor resource in a full, reasonable and scientific way. This pre-inspection aims to relieve the worries of “go global” companies by ensuring safety of food produced in foreign countries before selling them successfully to China.

The head of the Delegation expressed that AQSIQ will continue to serve for national major strategy positively in accordance with the requirements by the Party Central Committee and the State Council by ensuring safety at the gateway of China. (end) (photo taken by Liu Ailun)