XU Guanhua, Chinese Minister of Science and Technology, and Khalid Malik, resident representative of UNDP in China recently inked a Memorandum of Understanding on the Long Term Cooperation between the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and UNDP. Under the implementation framework of the MOU, both parties will focus cooperation activities in the fields of poverty alleviation with science and technology, promoting rural development with S&T means, and the sustainable development in energy and environment sectors. Both sides will strengthen effective cooperation through projects, seminars, negotiations, and forums, in an effort to raise the level and quality of cooperation. The new cooperation mechanism will secure a long and stable partnership between two entities for win-win outcomes.
The Ministry of Science and Technology has staged four major cooperation projects with UNDP since 1997, including capacity building of China?痵 poverty stricken rural areas with science and technology, poverty alleviation with telecommunication technology, capacity building of China?痵 agrifoods under the WTO framework, and capacity building through making poverty stricken farmers a part of the dairy industry. Other projects, including fuel battery vehicles and clean energy activities, are also launched under the cooperation mechanism. UNDP has so far contributed USD 12.4 million to the cooperation projects. Upon the establishment of a promised long-term partnership between the two organizations, MOST and UNDP will expect an increasingly widened cooperation domain. |
