Luo Hui Meets with IUFoST President Samuel Godefroy

Luo Hui, Executive Secretary of the leading Party members group and Director General of the Department of International Affairs of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), met with Samuel Godefroy, President of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) in Beijing on April 28, 2025.

During the meeting, the two sides engaged in extensive discussions on a range of topics, including hosting high-level activities, initiating academic journals, participating in the governance of international organizations, promoting the formulation of international standards, cultivating young scientists, and establishing a representative office in China. Both parties expressed their expectation for pragmatic cooperation in these areas.

Founded in 1970, the IUFoST, a country-membership organization, is the global voice of food science and technology. It is the only representative for the discipline of Food Science and Technology elected into the International Science Council (ISC) by its interdisciplinary peers. It is a voluntary, non-profit federation of national food science organizations linking the world’s food scientists and technologists.

Also present at the meeting were representatives from CAST's Department of Sci-tech Innovation, the China Centre for International Science and Technology Exchange (CISTE), the Beijing Association for Science and Technology, the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology, and the "Innovation China" investment consortium.

(With input from the official website of the IUFoST)

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