WADA Vice President Lead a delegation to CHINADA

2017-06-28

On 24th May, Ms. Linda Helleland, Vice President of WADA and the Minister of Culture of Norway, led a delegation of 17 to CHINADA. Mr. LI Yingchuan, the Vice Sport Minister of China and WADA Foundation Board Member met with the delegation and held a bilateral meeting.

Mr. CHEN Zhiyu the Executive Director General of CHINADA gave an introduction on CHINADA, as well as progress has been made in the field of Anti-Doping Education, Doping Control, Anti-Doping Analysis and legislations. When talking about the cooperation between China and Norway, Mr. CHEN said that the cooperation and friend between the two organizations had a long history of more than 20 years. Both CHINADA and ADN (Anti-Doping Norway) benefited from this relation, and set up an example for the rest of the world. CHINADA is willing and expect to renew its cooperative agreement with ADN.

Ms. Helleland made a speech and acknowledged the progress made by CHINADA. She expressed her expectation on CHINADA to continue its independent and comprehensive Anti-Doping Program with the support of Chinese Government.

Anders Solheim, CEO of ADN, said that CHINADA and ADN have maintained a very good channel of communication and cooperation. ADN is looking forward to continue its partnership with CHINADA on Doping Test, Investigation, ABP and education, as well as cooperation on international projects.

The meeting was held in a friendly and practical manner, the delegation also visited the Beijing Laboratory and experienced an onsite Educational Outreach Program held by CHINADA.