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On November 24, Mr. Etienne Schneider, the Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Economy and Trade paid a visit to IEE's headquarters in Luxembourg and attended a meeting on the invitation of Mr. Wei Yiyan, a vice President and a member of Party Committee of CASIC. After the meeting, Schneider visited the exhibition of the new technologies and new products of IEE with the accompany of Wei and attended the signing ceremony of the financial support contract to IEE’s research and development from the Government of Luxembourg. The officers of the International Business Department, Space Department, 3rd Academy of CASIC, VOLINCO and IEE attended the visit and the meeting.
On behalf of CASIC, Wei expressed his appreciation for the constant concern and support from the Government of Luxembourg and Schneider as the Deputy Prime Minister on IEE’s development in the past few years and was delighted to meet Schneider again in Luxembourg after the last visit from Prince Grand Duke and Deputy Prime Minister in May, 2016.
Wei said: “Our past few talks focused on IEE’s development. This time, we would talk about the potential cooperation between CASIC and Luxembourg in the sector of space and aerospace.” In the past few decades, China has devoted great efforts and has obtained remarkable achievements in the sector of space and aerospace. Following the policy of further deepening the reform and opening up raised on the 19th CPC National Congress and under the Belt and Road Initiative, China is willing to share with the world her achievements in aerospace to develop the commercial aerospace sector together.
According to Wei, the plenary session of the Joint Economic and Trade Committee Meeting among China, Luxembourg and Belgium on November 22 has ensured China and Luxembourg’s further expansion in commercial aerospace as one of the themes in their future cooperation. CASIC has laid a solid foundation in the areas of satellite launching, infrastructure construction and satellite remote sensing test, and is ready to join in the cooperation on commercial aerospace between the two countries. Schneider said that Luxembourg is willing to offer support and assistant for CASIC’s expansion in commercial aerospace in Europe taking Luxembourg as the junction and is looking forward to an in-depth discussion on this cooperation with CASIC at his next visit to Beijing in January, 2018.
During the visit, Wei accompanied Schneider to visit the exhibition of the new technologies and new products of IEE, and expressed his appreciation for the constant concern and support from the Government of Luxembourg and Schneider as the Deputy Prime Minister on IEE’s development in the past few years. The exhibition of the new technologies and new products of IEE was highly recognized by the representatives of Ministry on Economic Affairs of Luxembourg. According to Schneider, the Government of Luxembourg always maintained a close communication and cooperation with IEE and has offered constant concerns and support to its technology and product development. The signing of the contract Researches Over the Interaction Between Low Energy Photons and Articles was the first basic research program that obtained the financial support from the Government of Luxembourg over the past few decades and was significantly meaningful.
In the afternoon, Wei visited Mr. Huang Changqing, the Chinese Ambassador to Luxembourg and had a close talk with the management of IEE.
