On September 21, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Jiangsu Province held a joint scientific and technological cooperation meeting in Nanjing. Bai Chunli, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Li Qiang, secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, attended the meeting. Both sides focused on the scientific and technological needs for the development of Jiangsu Province and reached consensus on deepening cooperation in order to further promote social and economic development in Jiangsu Province. After the meeting, both sides witnessed the signing ceremony of the project on information security technology held by Sugon and Kunshan Municipal Government.

Bai Chunli expressed his gratitude to Jiangsu Province for its long-term support given to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in various fields. He pointed out that the institutes of the Nanjing Branch of CAS has developed rapidly and made important breakthroughs in the exploration of dark matter, the soil remediation, the application of nanotechnology and the development of advanced medical equipments, etc. Besides, nearly 200 innovative carriers of all kinds have been built and over 1500 projects have been carried out in Jiangsu Province. It has become one of the provinces which made most effective achievements in the cooperation between CAS and local governments.

Bai Chunli further pointed out that it is a great mission of CAS to contribute to the local economic and social development through technology transfer. He hoped that CAS would continue to work closely with Jiangsu Province to further promote more significant scientific and technological achievements in Jiangsu.

Li Qiang firstly thanked the Chinese Academy of Sciences for its long-term support for the economic and social development, as well as scientific and technological progress in Jiangsu. He congratulated the cooperation between Sugon and the city of Kunshan. He said that Jiangsu Province has deepened its cooperation with CAS and has made positive progress in various fields such as construction of major national science and technology infrastructure projects, establishment  of new R&D agencies, production-education-research cooperation, etc. Jiangsu possesses a solid foundation in manufacturing industry and high-level human resources, and currently, it is in an important period of industrial transformation and upgrading. So Jiangsu hopes to deepen the cooperation with CAS so as to make greater contributions to the innovation and development of the whole nation.

Joint scientific and technological cooperation meeting between CAS and Jiangsu Province

The signing ceremony of the project on information security technology held by Sugon and Kunshan Municipal Government