On August 1, the founding conference of the Jiangsu Provincial Association of facilities agricultural equipment industry was held in Xinghua, Jiangsu province, the first board of Directors, supervisors, President and vice-president of the Association were elected. Zhao jikuan, chairman of Jiangsu Chuangjing Agricultural Equipment Group Co. , Ltd. , was elected as president. More than 110 enterprises from the province participated in the founding conference. The Secretariat of the Association is located in Xingdong town greenhouse materials industrial park, Xinghua.

It is understood that Xingdong town in Xinghua is a distribution center for the construction of facilities and agricultural equipment in the province. Currently, more than 2,000 people are engaged in greenhouse construction in the town, and their business covers the whole country. Among them, more than 70 people have set up Greenhouse Engineering Co. , Ltd. , the annual output value reaches 1.5 billion yuan, forming a group of industry leaders such as Jiangsu Runcheng Greenhouse Science and Technology Co. , Ltd. and Jiangsu Chuangjing Agricultural Equipment Group Co. , Ltd. . July 2019, eight engineering companies, such as Jiangsu Runcheng Greenhouse Technology Co. , Ltd. , Nanjing Runchao Greenhouse Engineering Co. , Ltd. and Jiangsu Chuangjing Agricultural Equipment Group Co. , Ltd. , which were founded by capable people in the town, reached consensus on forming an association, to form a preparatory committee for the Association and submit the name approval form of the Association and the feasibility report on the establishment of the Association to the Department of Agriculture and rural areas of the province, which is in charge of the operation, for approval. In June 2020, approved by the provincial Department of Civil Affairs agreed to establish the Jiangsu Provincial Association of facilities agricultural equipment industry. “The establishment of an industry association aims to strengthen the standardization and orderly development and management of the greenhouse construction industry. “By giving full play to the role of trade associations in co-ordinating and guiding the exchange and co-operation between government administration departments, enterprises, universities, scientific research institutions and other units in the field, we will achieve an organic combination of production, learning, research and application, and create an overall 'chess game' of mutual assistance, exchange and co-operation, common progress and win-win development in facility agriculture,” Zhao said, at present, the whole province's facility agricultural equipment industry has a wide range, many points, the government and the Society's investment is big, at the same time, it also faces the low quality and low price construction level, the lack of the industry standard, the low threshold access, the irregular operation of the market leads to disorderly competition and repeated construction in the industry, which makes the funds invested by the government unable to be used efficiently. How to coordinate and solve these problems will be the focus of the future work of the association. The Xinghua municipal committee of the CPC and the municipal government congratulated the establishment of the association and said that they will always pay attention to the construction and development of the association, improve and implement the support policies for the industry, and actively compete for and attract facilities and agricultural equipment projects, to guide appropriate scale of operation in an orderly manner, create favourable conditions for the development of member units, enterprises to invest in Xinghua, promote facilities and agricultural equipment and technology, and provide service guarantees for promoting high-quality development of the industry. It is reported that the facility agricultural equipment industry in Jiangsu province is a non-profit social organization composed of greenhouse construction enterprises, scientific and educational institutions and related economic organizations in Jiangsu province, which will provide better services for enterprises in Jiangsu province, bring better economic benefits, make the facility agricultural equipment industry more healthy, standardized and orderly development.