China, EU Achieve Goals in Sci-tech Cooperation

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China, EU Achieve Goals in Sci-tech Cooperation

With the mutual opening up of high technology research projects to each other, China and the European Union (EU) have seen the benefits of cooperation in science and technology.

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With the mutual opening up of high technology research projects to each other, China and the European Union (EU) have seen the benefits of cooperation in science and technology.

The on-going 2002 China-Euro Cooperation Forum on the Information Society, which was hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Ministry of Information Industry and the EU Commission in Beijing, epitomizes the latest achievements made by the two sides in such exchanges and cooperation.

During the forum, Minister of Science and Technology Xu Guanhuaand EU Commissioner Erkki Liikanen signed a joint statement on cooperation in information technology.

When interviewed by Xinhua on Friday, Yu Ying, director of the MOST department of international cooperation, said that China and the EU agreed to make information technology a priority for cooperation. Since the mid 1980s, the two sides had implemented a batch of projects in mobile telecommunications, computerized transport control and the application of information technology.

Yu said China imported many advanced technologies and equipment.The automatic flood monitoring system on the Fuchun River in eastern Zhejiang Province helped the country to prevent the loss of more than one billion yuan (120 million U.S. dollars) from floods.

China also copied from European countries the GSM standard for mobile telecommunications, which now occupied an overwhelming majority of the market share, Yu said.

According to the statement, China pledged to open its high technology research and development plan, known as the 863 Project,which was approved in March 1986, to EU members as a reciprocal gesture.

Meanwhile, both sides will encourage their researchers to join cooperative scientific research.

China and the EU also support joint research in areas of commoninterest, such as the third generation of mobile telecommunicationtechnologies, open source software and possible projects for constructing an e-Olympics in 2008.

Moreover, Yu said, bilateral cooperation in information technology was only a case in point of their overall sci-tech cooperation.

In the past two decades, the two sides witnessed the gradual development of cooperation in many fields, including energy, bio-technology, agriculture, health, medical sciences, natural resources, information telecommunications, environmental protection, aeronautics and space science.

Statistics show that the two sides have carried out more than 300 sci-tech projects.

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