China will further strengthen reciprocal cooperation with the US
in high technology, said State Councilor Chen Zhili on
Thursday.
In a meeting with John H. Marburger III, director of the US
White House Science and Technology Policy Office, Chen said China
would also improve cooperation in the fields of energy, resources,
environment, agriculture, health, public security and fundamental
research, where the two nations share common interests.
China is also willing to carry out cooperation with the US side
in space and aviation, information and communication, biology and
nano technology, Chen said.
Marburger, also scientific advisor to the president, is leading
a government delegation for the 12th meeting of the China-US Joint
Commission on Science and Technology Cooperation, which opened on
Wednesday.
During the meeting, the two sides reached broad consensus on
some hot issues concerning bilateral scientific and technological
cooperation, including environmental protection, energy and
high-energy physics, and signed a memorandum of understanding on
technological cooperation in environmental protection.
(Xinhua News Agency October 20, 2006)
