Russian-Chinese Innovation Center to Be Established in October

10:49, July 16, 2018

It is expected that the corresponding documents will be signed during the Harbin International Exhibition

Joint Russian-Chinese Innovation Center with representational offices in Ekaterinburg and Harbin might open its doors in October of 2018, during the 7th China Harbin International Exhibition of Scientific and Technological Achievements. It was negotiated during the meeting between UrFU First Vice-Rector Sergey Kortov with the Chinese delegation led by the Secretary General of China’s High and New Technology Industry Development Eurasian Market Strategic Cooperation Union Shaonan Guan.

“Russia has some remarkable technological achievements which can be commercialized in China,” Sergey Kortov says. “In their turn, some Chinese end-to-end solutions in industry, energetics and pharmacy could be introduced in Russia. There is a possibility of collaborative work within the “Smart Region” project, accumulating all the digital solutions in Housing and Utility Infrastructure, communications, transportation, medicine (particularly, nuclear medicine), science and education.”

In his turn, Shaonan Guan noted that the Ministry of Science and Technology of China pays special attention to the development of an innovation center working on the same principle as a consortium.

“We expect many companies, institutes and businesses to be involved in the innovation center. All my colleagues have the greatest respect for Ural Federal University and its value for Russian education. It’s a key party in the currently developing center, which will contribute to the growth of the two cities”, Shaonan Guan says.

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Ural Federal University hosed 6 scheduled events of the industrial trade fair “INNOPROM”, which was held from July 9 to July 12 in Ekaterinburg.

UrFU administration signed a number of important agreements during INNOPROM and held meetings with international partners at UrFU. UrFU Accelerator, as well as gifted high school seniors – the participants of the Ural Project Session – displayed their works in the forum part of the fair for the first time.