From February 28 to March 1, 2022, in cold, windy weather, Prof. Zhang Lili, team leader of the Anti-wind Erosion, Water-saving High-Efficiency Agriculture Model R&D team, together with some other researchers and officials of local governments, made an inspection tour to Fuxin Agricultural Demonstration Zone to inspect the implementation of black soil conservation tillage and land preparation for spring ploughing. Those who participated in the inspection included Zhang Wenyuan and Liu Yang, deputy mayors of Fumeng County, Wang Lina, CPC Party Secretary of the Modern Agricultural Development Service Center of Liaoning, Sun Zhanxiang, deputy director of the Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences (AAS), deputy director (Zhang Zhe) and researchers (Hou Zhiyan; Feng Chen) from the Cultivation Institute, Prof. Wu Zhijie, Prof. Yin Guanghua and senior engineer Wei Zhanbo from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

On the afternoon of the 28th, the plaque unveiling ceremony of Fuxin Anti-wind Erosion Agriculture Model Demonstration Area was held at the Mengguzhen Hotel in Fumeng County. This unveiling ceremony marks the start of the tripartite strategic cooperation between Fumeng County, AAS and IAE on controlling the wind erosion problem in northwestern Liaoning.

After the unveiling ceremony, accompanied by Zhang Wenyuan and Liu Yang, two deputy county major of Fumeng County, the agricultural model R&D team visited Getaiji Village and Guanyingzi Village. On March 1, they paid a visit to conservation tillage fields and corn-soybean intercropping fields in Fuxin Town (Taoli and Shazalan Villages) and Shala Town (Zhujiawazi Village), two towns in the core area of Fuxin demonstration zone.

Fumeng County plans to implement conservation tillage, develop organic millet planting, implement rural land transfer and rural revitalization. Officials of Fumeng County Government hoped that the agricultural model R&D team led by Prof. Zhang Lili can provide them with support in respect of strategy planning, brand building, conservation tillage and high-quality variety planting.

The expert team members had a lively discussion with managers of local companies and heads of agricultural cooperatives, and they put forward useful suggestions and plans to implement mechanized conservation tillage and rural revitalization strategy. Sun Zhanxiang, deputy director of AAS, recommended soybean varieties suitable for intercropping with corn in the conservation tillage areas in the semi-arid sandstorm zone in western Liaoning.

County and town officials express their gratefulness to the experts who conveyed advanced agricultural knowledge to them and they expected their next meeting with the experts.