29 November 2003, Rome - FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf conferring the Saouma Award 2003 to Provincial Plant Protection Station of China's Sichuan Province, during the Opening session of the FAO Conference, Thirty-second Session, Rome, 29 November -9 December 2003. Operating in China's Sichuan Province, the Provincial Plant Protection Station has managed to resolve a problem that the local rural community had been struggling with for some time.