Vice Minister Cao Jianlin met Dr. Pierre Coulombe, President of National Research Council Canada (NRC) and his delegation on the morning of March 23, 2009.

According to Cao, MOST attaches importance to establishing a long-term tie with NRC, which is an important part of China-Canada S&T cooperation. MOST will actively support Chinese research institutes and NRC to launch R&D and industrialization cooperation in such fields as hydrogen energy, fuel cell, life science and biotechnology. MOST is willing to join hands with NRC in support of the collaboration between technology clusters of hydrogen energy and fuel cell.