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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Beijing, June 27 /Xinhua/ — The Chinese branch of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Belarus recently opened at the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) of China, according to a statement on the university’s official website.
The opening ceremony was attended by First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Sergei Chizhik and more than 80 representatives of eight organizations of this country. The participants from the Chinese side included official representatives of the Ministry of Labor Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Party Committee of Shaanxi Province, the Science and Technology Administration of this province, etc.
The event was attended by the Secretary of the SZPU Party Committee Li Yanrong.
The opening of a branch of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in China is a new page in cooperation between China and Belarus. A memorandum of cooperation in this area was signed last year in Minsk, he recalled.
The two sides, as Li Yanrong emphasized, will focus on in-depth cooperation in the fields of aerospace technology, composite materials, high-tech equipment manufacturing, optics and optoelectronics, and will also promote deep integration in the fields of training specialists, scientific research cooperation and the transformation of achievements.
At the opening ceremony, memorandums of cooperation were signed between SZPU and the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics and the Belarusian National Technical University.
The opening of the Chinese branch of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus was also witnessed by more than 300 researchers from Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Aviation Industry Corporation of China /AVIC/, China Electronics Technology Corporation /CETC/ and others. -0-