On July 7, Fan Jinlong, Member of Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor, Zhang Yefei, Deputy Secretary-General of Jiangsu Provincial Government, and Zhang Jianjun, Deputy Director of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, visited FFRC to investigate the work of Yangtze River fishing ban. Du Xiaogang,Mayorof Wuxi City and Jiang Min, Deputy Mayor of Wuxi City participated in the investigation.
Fan Jinlong and his entourage went to the Key Laboratory of fishery ecological environment assessment and resource conservation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, communicated with researchers such as Yang Jian, Xu Dongpo,and had a detailed understanding of the research achievements made by FFRC in the protection, development and utilization of aquatic biological resources such as Coilia nasus and Eriocheir sinensis.
At the subsequent meeting, Director Xu Pao reported to Fan Jinlong and his entourage on the policy background of the “ten-year ban on fishing” in the Yangtze River, and introduced the necessity and the urgency of the “ten-year ban on fishing” based on the accumulated data of long-term monitoring of aquatic biological resources in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In recent years, FFRC has implemented the spirit of the important instructions of General Secretary XI Jin Ping on "the great protection of the Yangtze River" and the relevant deployment requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Jiangsu Province, and obtained great achievements of the ecological resources and environmental protection of the Yangtze River Basin.
Fan Jinlong fully affirmed the work of FFRC to support the development of Jiangsu fishery industry and the protection of resourcesand environment of the Yangtze River. He said that Jiangsu attaches great importance to the work of banning and retreating fishing in the Yangtze River. He hopes that FFRC will give full play to its advantages in fishery science and technology, and provide strong support for Jiangsu's Yangtze River fishing ban, green and high-quality fishery development.
（Translated by WANG Yun）
