Vice President Lan Yujie Meets with Deputy Head of Mission of the Chilean Embassy Beijing
On October 28, 2024, NSFC Vice President Lan Yujie, met with Sergio Valenzuela, Deputy Head of Mission at the Chilean Embassy in Beijing.
Dr. Lan stated that China and Chile have always been good friends despite being oceans apart. The National Agency for Research and Development of Chile (ANID) is one of the important partners of NSFC in Latin America. The two organizations successfully renewed the cooperation agreement with long-term validity this year. NSFC hopes to work with Chilean partner to establish a sound cooperation mechanism and network, enrich forms of bilateral and multilateral cooperation, strengthen collaboration and policy discussions in areas of common concern, and promote exchanges at working level as well as between the scientific communities of the two countries in the future, so as to work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Mr. Valenzuela said that the two sides highly overlap with each other in terms of priority research areas, and that the renewal of ANID-NSFC MoU has laid the foundation for future cooperation. There are many universities and research institutions in Chile that are very interested in cooperating with Chinese counterparts. The year of 2025 will be the 55th anniversary of China-Chile diplomatic relations. Chile would like to take this special year as an opportunity to promote exchanges between universities and research institutions from the two sides, maintain close communication and connection between funding agencies, and cooperate with China in the fields of marine science, Antarctic research, agriculture, new energy, biodiversity, quantum technology, and other sustainable development areas.
The two sides also exchanged views on scientific research policies and promoting exchange activities among scientists.
Zhang Yongtao, Acting Director General of Bureau of International Cooperation, also attended the meeting.
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