TY - JOUR T1 - Report on China JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 315 LP - 318 VL - 37 IS - 6 AU - Harold L. Barrows AU - Ralph J. McCracken AU - Raymond J. Miller AU - William R. Oschwald AU - Thomas N. Shiflet AU - Roland R. Willis Y1 - 1982/11/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/37/6/315.abstract N2 - IN the summer of 1981, we visited the People's Republic of China to study soil management and productivity as part of the continuing scientific and technological exchange between the U.S. and Chinese governments. We toured communes, research institutes, agricultural colleges, and provincial and county bureaus of agriculture in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the provinces of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Jiangsu, and Guangdong. We also visited the Northwest Institute of Soil and Water Research in Shaanxi and met with personnel from the Institute of Soil Science of Academia Sinica in Nanjing. We toured a cross section of China, from the cool northern grasslands to the southern tropics. Although we did not visit the agricultural northeast, arid northwest, or high-altitude southwest, we did have opportunities to discuss these areas with Chinese agriculturalists. Institutional structure The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture consists of 17 bureaus responsible for specific commodities. It also has bureaus for foreign affairs, education, science and technology, and a National Academy of Agricultural Science (NAAS). Thirty-two NAAS institutes focus … ER -