The annual evaluation meeting of Chinese Cassava Agro-industrial Research System (CCARS) was successfully held in Haikou BaoHua Harbour View hotel, Hainan province, on December 24th and 25th, 2014. Leaders of Ministry of Agriculture and local government and representatives of CCARS attended the annual event. On the meeting, Director Penghui Dou from MOA addressed the importance of China Agriculture Research system, highlighted the policies in the future and gave useful advices and goals for CCARS development. The Principle Investigator, the Scientists of different research laboratories and Agents of different research stations reported their achievements during the 12th Five-Year Plan and shared the latest research progresses and the useful experience in 2014 as well as plans for the 13th Five-Year Plan. The attendees also discussed the common problems existing in the system and how to solve them. During the meeting, the members of Executive Committee of CCARS also attended the regular meeting to discuss issues in the system intensively.

Prof. Peng Zhang from SCCB, together with Dr Wenzhi Zhou and Qiuxiang Ma attended the meeting and conducted a field investigation in Sanya Plantation after the meeting.