On 7 August, Minister WAN Gang met with US Senator Lieberman and his party at MOST.

WAN indicated that the Chinese Government attached great importance to addressing global climate change through science and technology. In June this year, MOST issued China’s Scientific & Technological Actions on Climate Change jointly with relevant departments to provide S&T support for China’s National Climate Change Program. WAN also gave an account of MOST’s efforts in the development of clean energy, new energy, renewable energy and clean fuel vehicles as well as technologies for energy conservation and environment protection. He also highly appraised the China-US S&T cooperation in the sectors of energy and environment. Senator Lieberman expressed the willingness to further facilitate China-US cooperation in the above sectors.

Senator Lieberman paid this visit to China at the invitation of NPC Foreign Affairs Committee. Accompanying Minister WAN at the meeting were JIN Xiaoming, Director General of the Department of International Cooperation, MEI Yonghong, Director General of the Department of Policy, Regulations and Reform and relevant leaders from the Office of the NPC Foreign Affairs Committee.