China Benefits from UN's TOKTEN ProgramChina has been able to invite nearly 2,000 overseas Chinese experts to take part in more than 1,000 projects, thanks to the TOKTEN project launched by the United Nations Development Program in 1977.This was disclosed Monday at a seminar on talent exchange and technological cooperation among developing countries, which is now going on in the Chinese capital. Chinese overseas talent has contributed to the motherland's development in environmental protection, natural resources, industry, finance and trade, infrastructure construction, and public health and education, said Chinese delegates at the event. The TOKTEN project, an acronym for "transfer of knowledge through expatriate nations," has enabled developing countries such as China to make use of experience in management and technology gained by people living and working abroad during the past two decades. The seminar, one part of the International High-Tech Industries Week which began in Beijing on May 8, will last till May 11, a day before the end of Hi-tech Week. Delegates from more than 10 developing countries including Turkey, Poland, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Liberia are attending the meeting. |
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