Workers harvest mushrooms utilizing Juncao know-how at Tadra Farm close to Nadi, Fiji on August 17, 2023. Photo: Shan Jie/GT
The First Belt and Road Conference on Science and Technology Exchange shall be held from November 6-7 in Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, mentioned Vice Minister of Science and Technology Zhang Guangjun on Monday.
The nation is wanting forward to persevering with the in-depth implementation of the Belt and Road Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation Action Plan with Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner countries, Zhang instructed a press convention.
China held the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on October 18, throughout which the nation vowed to proceed to advance scientific and technological innovation as one of many main steps to assist the joint pursuit of high-quality BRI cooperation.
Zhang mentioned that the convention will function 10 main occasions centering on intergovernmental cooperation in science and know-how, industrial innovation and growth, paradigm change in scientific analysis, drugs of the long run, open science and large knowledge.
More than 300 contributors from greater than 70 countries and worldwide organizations have been invited, together with practically 40 Nobel Prize winners, international academicians, specialists and students, and presidents of well-known international universities, in accordance to Zhang.
“By organizing the conference, we hope to summarize the progress of cooperation in science and technology innovation with BRI partner countries and discuss the trend and direction of tech innovation development, in order to propose key initiatives to promote the high-quality development of the Silk Road of Innovation,” Zhang famous.
Through exchanges and cooperation amongst researchers, frequent challenges confronted by some areas might be collectively solved and world scientific and technological progress and growth might be promoted, Wang Peng, an affiliate analysis fellow on the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, instructed the Global Times on Monday.
Zhang famous that China has signed intergovernmental agreements on scientific and technological cooperation with greater than 80 countries, collectively establishing an all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging sample of scientific and technological cooperation, and yielding stable achievements.
In phrases of selling people-to-people exchanges, China has supported greater than 10,000 younger scientists from BRI partner countries to come to China for short-term work and exchanges, and educated 16,000 scientific and technological and administration personnel from partner countries.
China and BRI partner countries have constructed greater than 50 joint laboratories in a wide range of fields, together with agriculture, medical care, data, new power and fundamental analysis, and established 10 abroad science and training cooperation facilities.
In order to collectively enhance folks’s livelihoods, China and BRI partner countries have supported the development of cooperation platforms, corresponding to the middle for scientific and technological cooperation in public well being, the agricultural know-how demonstration heart and the Juncao know-how demonstration heart.
Over the previous decade, China has promoted cooperation in science and know-how parks with BRI partner countries and arrange 9 transnational know-how switch facilities for ASEAN, the Arab States, Africa and different areas, establishing a wide-ranging know-how switch community with different countries to serve the economic upgrading of every nation.
China and BRI partner countries can additional deepen their cooperation in science and know-how in areas like synthetic intelligence, new power, biotechnology and aerospace. In addition, extra cooperative tasks might be carried out in areas corresponding to agricultural science and know-how, drugs and healthcare, bringing extra advantages to the folks of all countries, Wang famous.