Sino-German key technology project for sustainable ecosystem of Three Gorges area kicked off

Under the Sino-German S&T Cooperation Framework, the bilateral project on key technologies of building a sustainable ecosystem for Three Gorges area has recently been kicked off.

Co-headed by the State Council Three Gorges Project Construction Committee, Chongqing Science and Technology Commission and Germany Julich Center, Chongqing University, Tongji University, Huangzhong University of Science and Technology, Institute of Hydroecology of CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and MWR (Ministry of Water Resource) and Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences will join hands with German university-R&D institutes alliances to implement the project.

Such cooperation was identified as an intergovernmental project on the 6th Sino-German Steering Committee on Environmental Technologies and Ecology held in Bonn in March, 2007. Promoted by the Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Technology, organizing and implementing entities of both sides convened the project working meeting in Chongqing this July, on which German collaborators promised technical and R&D financial input to this project.