Vice Minister Cao Jianlin received Hong Kong Financial Secretary John Tsang at MOST on October 19th, 2011. The two sides exchanged ideas on enhancing scientific and industrial cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong.

VM Cao spoke highly of the achievements of Mainland-Hong Kong cooperation in recent years, such as setting up partner labs of State Key Laboratories in Hong Kong,  conferring National S&T Awards to Hong Kong scientists and participating in major national research activities by Hong Kong scientists. Cao said that MOST will continue its support to S&T development in Hong Kong.