TOMSK, Jun 18 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) and Shijiazhuang High-Tech Industrial Development Zone signed an agreement on cooperation; the parties plan to cooperate in the field of pharmaceutics, biotechnology, IT, industrial robotics, is reported on the TPU website on Monday.
The signing of the document took place during the working visit of the delegation of Shijiazhuang (China) to TPU.
"The signing of the agreement – is the only first step. It should become a basis for the development of further working relations. We want to get acquainted with your interesting developments, projects entering a zone of our interests", – the vice mayor of Shijiazhuang, the secretary of the working committee of the Shijiazhuang High-Tech Industrial Development Zone Zhao Wenfeng is quoted in the message.
It is specified that Shijiazhuang High-Tech Industrial Development Zone specializes in three industrial clusters: biopharmaceuticals, telecommunications and microelectronic equipment, and instrumentation.
In his turn, Roman Ostvald, acting Vice Rector for Scientific Work and Innovations of TPU, emphasized the main directions for the development of cooperation.
"Pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies, information technologies, industrial robotics. Today, TPU is one of the main partners of the KUKA company in the Siberian region, and on behalf of the ministry we are working on a project that would allow to link industrial robots of different manufacturers into a single complex", – he reported.According to the press service of the university, the zones are formed in different provinces of China and their main task is the introduction of new high-tech production methods at industrial enterprises. On the territory of such zones, resident enterprises receive preferential taxation and affordable credit system.