At the end of last month, Liu Yandong (China’s Vice Premier) and Avigdor Lieberman (Israel’s Foreign Minister) hosted the first China-Israel Joint Committee on Innovation Cooperation in Beijing. At the meeting, a three-year action plan on cooperating in innovation was signed between the two countries on issues such as: culture, education, healthcare and technology.
In addition, the Hobart Group – founded by Professor Shlomo Ben-Haim – with the China-Israel Rehabilitation Center for Autistic Children, signed a contract with the Park and will also be operating there. The Hobart Group is a medical group with top business operations experts, engineers and scientists, working in the fields of cardiac disease, diabetes, oncology, neurology and rehabilitation. Simultaneously the China-Israel Changzhou Innovation Park was established which marks the “official start of the construction of China and Israel’s first experimental zone for innovation cooperation.”
According to an English translation of the original article:
“Li Keqiang said in his congratulatory message that scientific technology is not bound by national borders, and innovation calls for cooperation. He hopes that the China-Israel Joint Committee on Innovation Cooperation will establish tight connections between the scientists of both countries, take full advantage of various resources of innovation, strengthen innovation cooperation, and contribute to both nations’ development in innovation and benefits for the people, achieving mutually beneficial and win-win results.”
Over the last two-and-a-half years, around 25 hi-tech Israeli companies have brought their operations to the China-Israel Changzhou Innovation Park. A China-Israel Collaboration Science and Technology Innovation Fund has been established, offering “an innovative and enterprising environment for Israeli projects and talents.”
Last year at a conference leaders from both China and Israel agreed to continue with collaboration on the above-mentioned industries, signing three economic cooperation agreements. Learn more from the original article in Chinese.