The Founding and Development of Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE)

Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering(CSAE) was founded during the month of November in 1979. The paper presents the historical review and the rapid development in the past ten years of CSAE. During the early day of 40's some agriculturists found that the development of Chinese agriculture was impossible without good farm machinery and implements. Therefore, they founded the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery and Implement in Zhong-qing, Sichuan Province, PRC. In the middle of 40's, there were more than 30 Chinese graduate students studying the agricultural engineering in U. S. A. and they made the preparations for the setting up of a Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineers. As all these works were carried out before the founding of the People's Republic of Chjina, no-body supported them. At the end of 70's the State Commision of Science and Technology of Chinese Government recognized that the agricultural engineering is branch of applied sciences. In the same year, thje Chinese Association of science and Technology(CAST)promissed Chinese agricultural engineers to organize the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering(CSAE).At the November of this year, CSAE will celebrate her loth anniversary. Due to the hard work of all the officials and staffs of the Society and the support of CAST, China Association of Agriculture(CAA)and others, the development of CSAE is very rapid. Even though CSAE is only at the age of the she has nore than 5,100 members with high academic level all over the Country, 23 provincial societies, 6 working organizations, 11 academic committees, and 2 academic popularization and service organizations includidng the International Relationship Committe. This Committee has sent senior officials of the Society and professors to attend the annual meetings, academic conferences or seminars, exhibitions and young members to some famous institutes or universities as visiting scholars all over the world in the field of agricultural engineering.Now, CSAE is going to unite all the Chinese agricultural engineers and strengthen the academic cooperation and exchange with all the friendly foreign agricultural engineering organizations in order to heighten the academic level and speed up the enterprises in the field of agricultural engineering.At last, the author wishes to announce a good news to the members of CSAE and also world agricultural engineers that Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering and Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery jointed to apply the national membership of the Commision Internationale Du Genie Rural(C. I. G. R.)with the name of "The Chinese Federation of Societies for Agricultural Machinery and Agricultural Engineering" at the end of last year. In the March of this year, C. I. G. R. noticed the Chinese Association of Science and Technology(CAST)that C. I. G. R. accepted the Chinese Federation as the national member of her Commission. I believe, afterwards, CSAE will make close contact with world agricultural engineering organizations of different countries through C. I. G. R..