The Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Nomalungelo Gina, hosted China’s Vice Minister of Science and Technology, CHEN Jiachang, throughout a courtesy go to on the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) in Cape Town on Thursday, 26 March 2026.
The engagement adopted the 9th South Africa-China Bi-National Commission, the place Deputy President Paul Mashatile hosted China’s Vice President Han Zheng earlier within the day.
The two leaders reaffirmed the robust and lengthy‑standing bilateral relations between South Africa and China, rooted within the 1999 Science and Technology Agreement between the Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation and China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, below which greater than 150 joint R&D tasks have been carried out.