The first office from the United Nations Secretariat to be established in China is set to open in Beijing later this month following the historic signing in Bangkok today of an agreement with the Chinese Government.

Under the Host Country Headquarters Agreement with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the new headquarters for the Asian and Pacific Centre for Agricultural Engineering and Machinery (APCAEM) will be located in the China International Science and Technology Convention Centre in Beijing.

"The opening of the Centre signifies the recognition by ESCAP Member States of the importance of the organization in furthering the cause of agro-based technologies in agricultural production,” the Commission said in a news release.

It is anticipated that the Centre will attract more member countries and financial contributions from the private sector in the form of public-private partnership, as it increasingly proves itself to be beneficial to its stakeholders with substantive and tangible accomplishments in the near future.

APCAEM currently has 13 member countries: Bangladesh, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

Sources from https://news.un.org/en/story/2003/11/86062-china-host-its-first-ever-un-secretariat-office