May 26-28, Dr. Xiaocheng Jia, Tea-oil Camellia Research Center of Coconut Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, went to Shaoguan, Guangdong Province to participate in the project exchange meeting of the 13th five-year National key R&D Program "Eco-economically Cultivar Selection of Oil Camellia and Support Cultivating Techniques". The meeting was presided over by Prof. Xiaohua Yao, the expert in charge of the project.

At the meeting, the participating units had a heated discussion on the formulation of evaluation standards for eco-economic varieties of tea-oil camellia, regional test and selection of eco-economic varieties, innovation of modern seedling raising techniques, matching high-efficiency planting techniques and so on. At the meeting, Dr. Xiaocheng Jia made a work report entitled "Breeding and Existing Problems of Tea-oil Camellia in Hainan", and put forward some suggestions on setting up test sites in Hainan to screen eco-economic varieties of tea-oilcamellia which are suitable for Hainan. This meeting defined the focus of work in the next step, and reached a consensus on data sharing, promotion of key work, cooperation and exchange, which laid a good foundation for the smooth implementation of the next topic.

After the meeting, Dr. Xiaocheng Jia inspected the National Improved Variety Base of Chinese fir and tea-oil camellia at Xiaokeng Forest Farm in Qujiang District, Shaoguan City, and found that the Hainan tea-oil camellia strain planted in the early stage grew well in the base. In order to popularize the new varieties of Reyan series of tea-oil Camellia, we reached a preliminary intention with the base to try out the new varieties of Reyan series of tea-oil camellia.