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The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) was established in 1957.Different from provincial agricultural research institutes ,CAAS is China's national agricultural research organization ,directly affiliated to the Ministry of Agriculture. CAAS has a strategic task of serving nation-wide agricultural and rural development and empowering farmers with science and technology .Its major mandates focus on strategic and applied research solving determinant and key scientific problems which are of national or regional importance.