According to Xinhua News Agency, Kunming, April 11 (Reporter Zhao Peiran) In 2024, my country's new plant varieties applications reached 14,839, with 5,797 authorized, ranking first in the world for eight consecutive years.
On the 11th, Cui Yehan, Chairman of the Council of the International Alliance for the Protection of New Variety (UPOV), made the above statement at the "Summit on Cultivating New Quality Productivity in the Forestry and Grassland Field and Transformation and Application and Development of Excellent New Variety" held in Kunming, Yunnan.
The 2-day summit, with the theme of "Transformation and Application of New Excellent Plant Variety and Cultivation of New Quality Productivity in the Forestry and Grassland Field", was hosted by the National Innovation Alliance for New Excellent Plant Variety, and attracted more than 160 domestic and foreign experts, scholars and corporate representatives to attend the conference. The guests held in-depth discussions on issues such as protection of new plant varieties, intellectual property strategies and new quality productivity cultivation.
