January 09, 2017

Ningxia news | Cao Kailong appointed wine bureau director

 Cao set up the bureau, originally called the Bureau of Grape and Floriculture Industry, in 2012 to help boost Ningxia’s promising wine industry. He’s been involved in a dizzying number of projects. These range from the region’s OIV observer membership to trade fairs, wine festivals and fact-finding missions to establishing a nursery with imported plant material to a pair of two-year projects called Ningxia Winemakers Challenge, the most recent of which pairs 48 foreign winemakers with local operations in a contest with over USD100,000 in prizes. (Disclosure: I helped find winemakers for this contest.)