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By Staff Reporters

China and France signed pact on April 6 on future sci-tech cooperation, pledging to build a China-France carbon neutralization center and an exchange program targeting researchers in the science and technology fields, referred to as sci-tech partners in the related pact.

Wang Zhigang, minister of science and technology of China, and Catherine Colonna, minister for Europe and foreign affairs of France, signed the agreement on behalf of the two governments.

Through the establishment of the cooperation mechanism, China and France hope to promote long-term scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and French research institutions, focusing on the field of carbon neutrality, and jointly support exchanges and visits between Chinese and French research teams to make new contributions to address global challenges such as climate change together, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.