Video Reception, 5/22/02

Video Series Premiere U.S. Embassy, Beijing, China, May 22, 2002

	To celebrate the completion of the video series “Sustainable Agriculture: A Tour of Small Farms and their Communities in the United States,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Global Village of Beijing (GVB) held an afternoon press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, followed by an evening premiere. The nine-segment series focuses on economically viable small-scale U.S. farms that have adopted environmentally innovative agricultural techniques. The series will be broadcast on Chinese television and used as a teaching supplement in Chinese agricultural universities.
	To go directly to specific slides: Slide 1: Receiving line Slide 2: USDA and Chinese Ministry of Water Resources officials Slide 3: U.S. Embassy officials (EST and Agriculture Section) Slide 4: USDA, China Environmental Protection Foundation representatives Slide 5: Global Village of Beijing and U.S. EPA representatives Slide 6: USDA and Asian Development Bank representatives Slide 7: USDA and Chinese Ministry of Agriculture officials Slide 8: U.S. Embassy Agricultural Affairs Section officers Slide 9: Global Village of Beijing and Yanqing County representatives Slide 10: USDA and U.S. Embassy public affairs officer