3 July 2024, ambassadors to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna from 12 developing countries visited the ICS-IAEA Collaborating Center for Nuclear Techniques in Plant Mutation Breeding, National Center of Space Mutagenesis for Crop improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences (ICS), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). The ambassadors are from Argentina, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Uzbekistan, who attended the "2024 Nuclear Cooperation Tour - Vienna Multilateral Ambassador China Tour". Guanghui Liu, Deputy Ambassador and Counsellor of China to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, Yu Qian, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Department of CAAS, Prof. Luxiang Liu, Director of the CAEA Center of Excellence on Nuclear Technology Applications for Irradiation Mutation Breeding and Executive Director General of ICS-CAAS accompanied the visiting.

Prof Liu introduced the innovation and discovery of mutation induction technologies, development and utilization of mutant resources, breeding and application of wheat mutant varieties, and international cooperation and exchange in techniques and germplasms at ICS. He briefed the construction of international exchange platforms such as the Asia and Oceania Association of Plant Mutagenesis (AOAPM) and the Mutation Breeding Network (MBN), as well as the workplans. The ambassadors highly recognized the achievements of ICS in the field of crop mutation breeding, expressed strong interest in the good practices of nuclear technology in accelerating crop breeding and ensuring food security, and expressed their active response to the Atoms4Food initiative of IAEA and FAO. They hope that ICS would continue to strengthen cooperation with developing countries and jointly promote the widespread application of nuclear technologies in agriculture.

The delegation also visited the CAEA Center of Excellence on Nuclear Technology Applications for Irradiation Mutation Breeding.