The 2024 China Seed (Nanfan Agricultural Silicon Valley) Congress is scheduled to be held in Sanya in China’s southern Hainan Province from Mar. 16-20.

A forum at a previous conference. (Photo: Hainan Daily)

This year’s conference will include an opening ceremony, a keynote speech, 15 symposiums, exhibitions, and other related activities. There will be both indoor exhibitions and outdoor crop variety displays, with indoor exhibition space exceeding 5,000 square meters and focusing on the development of Sanya’s Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City as well as other achievements and innovations of over 40 featured companies and institutions. The outdoor crop variety displays will be located in the National Modern Agriculture (Seed Industry) Industrial Park in Sanya, and will include over 2,200 crop varieties from both China and all around the world.

2024 China Seed Congress crop varieties on display in the field. (Photo: Li Shengfu / New Hainan App)

This event will bring together nearly 200 distinguished reporting guests as well as industry elites including ten academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and eight chief scientists of the national industry technology system. 

Guests will be invited to exchange foundational results achieved by the seed industry revitalization campaign over the past three years, as well as to discuss the future development of the Nanfan Silicon Valley, an agricultural base taking advantage of Hainan's tropical climate to intensively develop new seed varieties.

In addition, there will be a variety of related events allowing the public to taste and evaluate many of Hainan’sagricultural products, including chili peppers, corn, squash, tomatoes, and other featured produce varieties, with reports to be presented at the event’s keynote speech on the 17^th.

Squash on display in the field at the 2024 China Seed Congress. (Photo: Li Shengfu / New Hainan App)

The conference will also hold wheat seed, fresh and silage corn seed, and soybean seed industry exhibitions in Xinji and Zhangjiakou (Hebei Province), Dongyang (Zhejiang Province),  and Bei’an (Heilongjiang Province) in May, July, and September this year.