The course is entitled “Production of natural food for fish in Egypt”. It is one of the fruits of cooperation between the Chinese side, represented by the Ministries of Agriculture and Commerce of China and the Institute of Fish Farming and Fish Technology at Suez Canal University under the patronage of prof. Atef Abu El Nour, President of Suez Canal University, Prof . Magda Hagras vice president for Graduate Studies, Research and Supervision of Prof. Mohammed Al-Tabai, Dean of the Institute of Fish Farming, Prof. Sami Abdel-Malik, Vice-Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, Dr. Mervat Ali Mohamed, Vice-Dean for community service and Environment development and Dr. Heba Mahlawi Coordinator of the courcse .
The three-week course, from 19 September to 9 October, is concerned with the production of natural fish food in Egypt, which is an important link in the production of fish stocks, especially the care of larvae in their early stages.

The session was opened by Dr. Heba Mahlawi, Coordinator of the course, in which she conveyed the greetings of prof . Atef Abu Al-Nour, President of the University, and welcomed the attendees, with the participation of the Chinese side of Han-Bin, Economic Adviser to the Chinese Minister of Commerce and John Li Li, Representative of African International Cooperation in the Ministry of Agriculture and Affairs. Chinese countryside.
Dr. Heba Mahlawi explained that the three-week course aims to provide participants with scientific skills
And knowledge of the isolation, classification and development of algae and other natural habitats and feed larvae, and the dissemination of this culture among fish culture workers from institutes and research centers and institutes of marine science and fisheries
In his speech, Prof. Dr. Mohamed El-Tabey, Dean of the Institute of Aquaculture and Professor of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, introduced the Institute and its activities and stressed the keenness of the Vice President for Postgraduate Studies and Research to provide university programs related to the problems of society in order to provide technicians and specialists to meet the needs of society. this field
The Institute includes, as indicated by prof. Tabai, five main sections:
(Aquaculture production – control of diseases in aquaculture – aquaculture biotechnology – food and nutrition in aquaculture – fisheries technology)
And reviewed the most important achievements of the Institute where he gave five degrees of master and nine degrees of professional diploma in addition to the registration of 34 scientific thesis and passed 19 students for the pre-master’s stage. As well as the establishment of a glass basin unit to provide the necessary places for experiments for researchers, and the completion of the plant feed plant
And the installation of devices during the current academic year and the establishment of the unit Aquaponix is the latest technology in the relationship between plant and fish to protect the environment and the establishment of 22 courses and four seminars and provide technical support to the farmer in the Canal and Sinai and send a scientific team to report, Water quality and sent to the laboratory and solutions to the problem.
In her speech, prof . Magda Hajras, Vice President of Graduate Studies and Research, welcomed prof . Atef Abou El Nour, President of the University, and expressed her happiness with the Egyptian-Chinese cooperation, calling for the importance of expanding the transfer of expertise between the two sides
Prof. Magda Hegres invited various civil society organizations to cooperate with the university so that applied scientific research is an effective and important tool of development. She also referred to the role of this course in exchanging scientific experiences, making friendships between the Egyptian and Chinese sides and establishing an information network To link researchers.
Major General Al-Arabi Al-Sarawi, Managing Director of Suez Canal Company for Aquaculture and Aquaculture said that the Chinese workshop is useful to support fish farming in Egypt, which accounts for 75 percent of the total domestic fish production.

John Lee Lee, representative of the African International Cooperation Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, made a statement in which she expressed her happiness at her presence at Suez Canal University
In Ismailia. She thanked the University and the Institute of Aquaculture for hosting the course and for their efforts to make it a success.
Han Bin, the economic advisor to the Chinese Minister of Commerce, made a speech in which he stressed the depth of the Egyptian-Chinese relations and that under the patronage of the two leaderships of the two countries, the relationship developed greatly in recent years and became a close partnership and cooperation relationship. Recently, an agreement worth 18 billion US dollars was signed between the two sides.
The China-Africa Cooperation Forum has launched the “Capacity Building” initiative in Africa, which is to train about 2,000 African youth in vocational and technological training and establish a China-Africa center for the development of creativity and increase scholarships and courses.