CAS President Lu Yongxiang and Italian education minister Letizia
Moratti signed a memorandum of understandingand appendixes on bilateral
cooperation between the two sides on July 4 in Beijing.
The new agreement protocol extends the number of priority fields for
the collaboration from six to 11, which include advanced materials, earth
observation, environmental monitoring, cultural legacy, sustainable
development, physics, space technology, medicine, pharmacology, agriculture,
and language technology
