Vice Minister Cao Jianlin met with Mr. Koji Omi, the Chairman of Japanese Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum, and his delegation on July 21st, 2011.

STS Forum, founded in 2003 by Koji Omi, is known as the Davos in S&T community. It holds an annual meeting in Kyoto every autumn, gathering hundreds of S&T ministerial officials, business leaders, Nobel Prize laureates, Chancellors and famous scientists.

Koji Omi briefed the Chinese side on the preparation of the upcoming forum and invited Minister Wan Gang and other officials to participate. Both sides also exchanged opinions on enhancing bilateral cooperation in the field of industrial technology.