In August, HollandDoor organized on request of Kenlog, a few training days about food safety and quality control in The Netherlands. The Chinese delegation existed of four Chinese lecturers from a High school near Beijng, coming to the Netherlands for a 3 weeks program on Food processing and Quality control, organized by Kenlog, specialized in logistics and business advice.

Hollanddoor organized several days in this program and taught the group about the EU legislation, the span of control of the Dutch government, the responsibilities of the private companies and the role the certification bodies play in the value chain of fresh produce and processed food. The delegation also visited the microbiology laboratories of Blgg AgroXpertus and had an very interesting meeting with their colleagues at VHL at Velp.

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During the past 10 years the tree nursery sector in China has increased rapidly, as well in number as in size of the companies. The top entrepreneurs of the Chinese tree nursery sector are now starting to look at the developments in other parts of the world. The management of Handan City Qicaiyuanyi Landscape Engineering Co. requested HollandDoor to organize a 2 week business visit to tree nursery companies and landscape parks in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The aim of the tour was to learn about trends and developments in the sector as well as landscape design. The delegation members were also looking for new business contacts for future cooperation.

The Chinese delegation consisted of 16 persons from 12 tree nursery companies from the provinces Hebei, Xinjiang, Shandong and Henan. From June 29 to July 10 their tour led them to a range of tree nursery regions in The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. During the 2 weeks they learned, that the European tree nursery sector is far more advanced than in China: trees are more homogeneous, general quality is better, more (and advanced) machinery is used, substrate use is wide-spread, etc. Especially since the labour costs are rising in China, the delegation had a keen eye for machinery that could be used on their nurseries too.

After 2 weeks the Chinese delegation was very content with the quality of the visiting program. Several of the visited companies also showed interest in a future return visit to China and many of the delegation members said that they certainly will come back to Europe for more in-depth company visits.

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Hypor (Hendrix Genetics) requested HollandDoor to organize a study tour on Friday 21 November for a Chinese management delegation of New Hope Liuhe. The managers of New Hope Liuhe were primarily interested in various possibilities to organize the pork activities of their company. New Hope Liuhe is the largest animal husbandry company in China with more than 130 feed companies and more than 60 meat-processing plants. 

After visiting Hypor in the morning the study tour started in the afternoon at VION Food Group in Boxtel. The VION Executive Board (CEO Mr. M. Herkemij and CFO Mr. J. Straathof) and several directors received the delegation (accompanied by president Mr. T. Hendrix of Hendrix Genetics) and presented the general VION organization and (pork) activities as well as their food safety precautions and systems. During the discussion comparisons were made between the different ways the meat chain is organized in China and the Netherlands.

From Boxtel the delegation travelled to Nuenen where Heydehoeve was visited. Mr. T. Schepers (CEO Heydehoeve) gave the delegation insight in the unique way Heydehoeve cooperation has organized its production, processing and marketing. 

The New Hope Liuhe delegation was impressed by the visits and presentations and they were willing to facilitate VION and Heydehoeve with activities on the Chinese market.

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CECEC Rotterdam requested HollandDoor to organize a tailor-made excursion on Thursday 9 October for a Chinese agro delegation from Shandong Province. The delegation consisted of senior management representatives of larger agro companies from Shandong. The participants were primarily interested in possibilities for innovation and efficiency improvement in poultry and pork production by improvement of genetics, nutrition conversion and processing of meat. 

The excursion began at Marel-Stork Poultry Processing in Boxmeer. Mr. Tulp presented the newest innovations of Stork, mainly in the processing of chickens. After this, the factory was visited and Stork offered a lunch in their demonstration centre. 

In the afternoon, ForFarmers location in Heijen was visited where Mr. Huzen presented ForFarmers' corporate profile and after this the group got an interesting tour of the animal nutrition factory.

The excursion was concluded with a visit to Hendrix Genetics where Mr. Jason Zhu and Mr. Marcel Huijsman informed the group about improvement of pork meat production by breeding of pigs.  

The Shandong delegation was impressed by the visits and possibilities for further cooperation were defined on-site.  

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