The 4th Cross-Strait Academic Conference on Nutrition Improvement was held in Taipei.

The 4th Cross-Strait Academic Conference on Nutrition Improvement was held in Taipei from August 21-23, 2014 and was attended by more than 300 participants in various fields including nutrition, food science, public health and food industry. The meeting was held in Taiwan for the first time since the first three sessions were held in Macau (2008), Chengdu (2010) and Hong Kong (2012). The theme of the conference is "Improving Nutrition for Health in All Directions", and the agenda covers all aspects of the system, management, research, etc., and explores the cultivation of nutrition professionals.conference opened 9 special venues, 3 luncheons, nearly 50 exchange reports, 94 board exchanges, set up exhibition display 8. The meeting covered nutrition challenges and improvement strategies, dietary nutrient reference intake, chronic disease nutrition prevention and treatment, nutritional status assessment, hospital nutrition department management, clinical nutrition, school nutrition teaching materials design and teaching, diet preparation and meal supply.
Meeting ad hoc "training and qualification of nutritionists" thematic discussion, experts from four places on both sides of the Taiwan Straits on this issue carried out exchanges and discussions on how to promote the legalization of nutritionists, promote academic education, increase clinical practice and promote discipline construction, how to establish a nutritionist special education system and other aspects of the idea and thinking. Experts from four places on both sides of the Taiwan Straits shared their successful experiences and worked together to advise on the future development of nutritionist work.Continuing the tradition of the conference, the handover ceremony was held at the closing ceremony of the conference, and Professor Zhang Lexuan, President of the Chinese Dietary Nutrition Society, handed over the commemorative plaque to Professor Yang Yuanxin, President of the Chinese Nutrition Society, and announced that the fifth cross-strait academic conference on nutrition improvement in 2016 would be held in Shanghai. Professor Yang yuxin hopes that science and technology workers from four places on both sides of the Taiwan Straits will once again come together to bring rich scientific information and the latest research results to all of us, and work together to promote the improvement of nutrition in an all-round way for the sake of the progress of nutrition.. China Nutrition Society
Academic and Fund Management Department
August 29, 2014 .