MINSK, 22 August (BelTA) – Belarus and China have signed a protocol to approve the list of joint scientific and technical projects, which financing in 2024-2026 has been authorized. The protocol was signed between the State Committee on Science and Technology of Belarus and the Science and Technology Ministry of the People’s Republic of China in Minsk as part of an official visit of Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Li Qiang to Belarus, BelTA has learned.
The protocol provides for approving 20 projects for the sake of their joint implementation in 2024-2026. The projects focus on information and communication technologies, biotechnologies and healthcare, machine building, new materials. The projects were selected via a contest of Belarusian-Chinese joint scientific and technical projects.
The contest was organized by the State Committee on Science and Technology of Belarus and the Science and Technology Ministry of the People’s Republic of China in accordance with decisions made during the fourth session of the commission on scientific and technical cooperation of the Belarus-China intergovernmental committee on cooperation on 29 November 2022. All the approved projects were positively evaluated by experts on the Belarusian side and the Chinese one.
On 22 August an action plan was also signed on organizing years of Belarus-China cooperation in science, technologies, and innovations (2024-2025). The document contains 89 events, which provide for the organization of joint scientific and technical events, for creation and development of Belarusian-Chinese platforms for cooperation (joint labs, centers, organizations), and for the realization of joint scientific projects and scientific and technical projects.
As many as 140 organizations (59 in Belarus and 81 in China) will be employed to carry out events of the action plan, including industry-specific ministries, government agencies, and their subordinate organizations.
The plan is aimed at advancing scientific and technical cooperation and innovation cooperation between Belarus and China, at invigorating the mutual transfer of technologies, and at improving the efficiency of introduction of R&D results in main branches of the economy.
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