On March 19th of 2009, Vice Minister CAO Jianlin received Dr. Corrado Clini, Director General of Italian Ministry for the Environment and Land and Sea (IMELS). Both exchanged opinions on the cooperative project of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Chinese housing.
CAO and Clini expressed their confidence in promoting the environmental and energy projects. The two sides wished to encourage research institutes and enterprises to participate in the S&T cooperation, so as to expand mutual understanding and inject vigor to the bilateral cooperation in science and technology.