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While the world's eyes are on the 31st Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in Lima, Peru, few perhaps are aware of intense work going on under the shadow of the Andes Mountains to build a nearly 30-kilometer highway to Machu Picchu, the legendary "Sky City" of Peru's ancient Incan empire. The project is led by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) from across the Pacific.
The United Nations Environment Program's affiliated International Ecosystem Management Partnership (UNEP-IEMP), together with the Chinese Academy of Sciences through its Sino-Africa Joint Research Center and the local government of Kenya, launched a bamboo planting training and technology transfer project in Kenya's Busia county, on October 31, to promote the sustainable development of the Kenya's bamboo industry.
As the world faces growing global challenges, collaboration between Brazil and China in the fields of science, technology, and innovation (ST&I) emerges as a strategic model to drive scientific and technological advancements with far-reaching impacts.
Over the past decades, as bilateral relations between China and Brazil have maintained steady growth, their sci-tech collaboration has become a model of South-South cooperation and played an important role in enhancing people-to-people exchanges and contributing to global sci-tech innovation.
In recent years, China and Brazil have strengthened cooperation on sustainable agriculture, including planting "zero deforestation and zero vegetation destruction" soybeans, which means that soybean fields do not cause any deforestation or vegetation destruction in the production process.
As a landmark project of China-Indonesia cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR)'s sustainable operation over the past year has significantly enhanced the quality of life of local residents. It has also boosted Indonesia's industrial and regional economic growth, and played a crucial role in advancing the country's modernization and development.
South Africa's avocado has found a steady market in China thanks to an agreement signed between the two countries in August 2023. Today avocado farming is a flourishing industry in South Africa, creating much-needed jobs for local people.
The cooperation between China and Sweden in biomedicine transcends geographical and cultural boundaries, continually benefiting both peoples and setting a fine example of win-win cooperation.
China and India, two of the world's major developing countries and emerging economies, and the founding members of BRICS, are both at pivotal stages in their development. China's goal is to become a modern socialist country in all respects by the middle of the century, and India's "Viksit Bharat 2047" is the vision to transform into a developed nation by 2047, the 100th year of independence.
CAMACOL , an influential commercial organization in Latin America , recently hosted its first remote branch meeting in Beijing through exhibitions and online interactions .
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had visited China in September. In his meeting with Sanchez, President Xi Jinping said China and Spain should fully utilize platforms such as the Joint Commission on Science and Technology to jointly promote development in high-tech fields such as AI, digital economy and new energy for mutual benefit and win-win results.
Since China and Saudi Arabia established a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2016, they have strengthened their energy cooperation and promoted the development of renewable energy.
Since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was put forward in 2013, China has signed cooperation agreements on intellectual property rights (IPRs) with 57 BRI partner countries and IPR has become an important bridge for their exchanges on sci-tech innovation and for enhancing connectivity.
As a major agricultural country in West Africa, Cote d'Ivoire has been involved in extensive agricultural cooperation with China, among which cocoa processing plants, rice cultivation bases and rubber processing plants are successful examples.
The China-Latin America relationship has a sound non-governmental foundation. Their sci-tech cooperation is mutually beneficial. As a developing country, China shares many commonalities with the countries and regions in Latin America.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Brazil. Bilateral cooperation in various fields has achieved tangible results, especially in agriculture. In recent years, both sides have expanded the scale of agricultural trade and strengthened cooperation in agricultural development.
The 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), the most comprehensive platform that promotes the China-Africa cooperative relationship, will be held in Beijing from September 4 to 6. It comes at a time that sees this cooperation unleash a growing list of beneficial infrastructure on the continent, among which the Karuma Hydropower Plant built by a Chinese company Sinohydro Corporation Limited is a prime example of bringing green momentum to Uganda's economic development.
On June 22, the Sino-French satellite Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) was successfully launched. Earlier, on May 3, China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe carried France's Detection of Outgassing RadoN to the moon, marking the first collaboration between the two countries in lunar exploration and France's debut in a lunar landing project. This year also celebrates the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and France, highlighting their longstanding cooperation in space.
The 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) took place in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, on July 3 and 4. Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the meeting and discussed the future of the organization and ways to advance cooperation so as to achieve new and greater progress for this important multilateral mechanism.
A China-proposed resolution to enhance international cooperation on AI was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly on July 1.
The trio will conduct a series of experiments in fields such as life science, fluid physics, combustion science and materials science. Notably, this is the first time that fruit flies have been taken on a Chinese space mission as experimental subjects. What made scientists choose fruit flies? What experiment will they undergo?
