© сайт Томского государственного университета TOMSK, Jun 18 – RIA Tomsk. The leadership of Tomsk State University (TSU) and the city of Shijiazhuang (PRC) signed on Monday a
memorandum on cooperation in the field of innovation, education and economics;
it is planned to open joint laboratories and business incubators, which will
promote the transfer of innovative developments, the press service of TSU
reports.
It is specified that on Monday the delegation of the city of Shijiazhuang
(People's Republic of China) came to TSU with an official visit. The meeting
resulted in the signing of a memorandum on cooperation between TSU and the
Shijiazhuang High-Tech Industrial Development Zone. The document was signed by
the vice rector for innovation activities of TSU Konstantin Belyakov and the
vice mayor of Shijiazhuang Zhao Wenfeng.
"Today the development of innovation, technological direction of the
economy is extremely important for TSU and the region. We hope that after your
visit there will be a number of projects, which we will start with joint
efforts", – the press service quotes the TSU rector Eduard Galazhinsky.
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It is added that the parties intend to consider a question of opening joint
laboratories, business incubators, which will facilitate the transfer of
innovative developments. There is also a willingness to create an investment
fund to support the best start-ups of both sides.
"We know about the potential of your university long ago and we want to
build economic and innovative cooperation ... We are actively developing the
directions of medicine, communication technologies, navigation systems and
others ... We hope to establish stable relations with your university in these
and other areas of development", – Zhao Wenfeng said.
It is also reported that during the meeting in TSU guests were presented
with a handbook in Chinese, intended for businessmen of China working in
Russia. The edition is developed on the basis of the department of corporate
legal practice of TSU. The handbook contains information on the structure of
the state system of the Russian Federation, basics of customs, taxation and
other types of legislation, is said in the statement.