On July 9, 2013, Jean Ping, former Chairman of the African Union Commission, and his party paid a visit to RADI.

Deputy Director of the International Centre on Space Technology for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST)) Hong Tianhua gave a general introduction to RADI and its international cooperation and exchanges. Meng Qingyan, head of the Applied Earth Observation System Division, made a report entitled “Agri-environment Remote Sensing Monitoring Information System of Sino-Egypt”, introducing in detail the quantitative inversion of crop parameters and land classification technology developed together by RADI and Egyptian Space Administration over the past five years, as well as the construction of the information system. Jean Ping expressed the wish to launch cooperative studies in fields relating to remote sensing.

After the meeting, Gu Xingfa, Deputy Director of RADI, gave as gifts Beijing 1 Micro-satellite Image Atlas and Demonstrative Studies of the Egyptian Remote Sensing Applications to Mr. Jean Ping.