The delegation will arrive at the Nano-Israel 2012 conference that will be held this month in Tel Aviv (on March 26-27), to examine possibilities for cooperation and information exchange
After a financial protocol worth over a billion shekels was signed about two weeks ago for the export of Israeli water technologies to China, the Chinese are now targeting the field of nanotechnology in Israel: a high-level Chinese delegation will arrive at the Nano Israel 2012 conference that will be held this month in Tel Aviv (on March 26-27), to examine possibilities for cooperation and exchange of information. The delegation, which will be headed by Prof. Chunli Bai The president of the Chinese National Academy of Sciences (CAS) and a world-renowned nano researcher, expresses interest in cooperation with Israeli academic and government bodies, in the fields of nano. Among the members of the delegation will also be representatives of the Chinese space industry, who will come to hear Haim Russo of Elbit, Dan Ziv of Plesen , Prof. Lea Bem from the aerospace industry, and Dr. Ami Debrat from Raphael, on the topics of nano applications in industry Security, in space and on the battlefield.
CAS is an academic institution specializing in development in the fields of science and technology in China, which also serves as a body that advises the Chinese government authorities in decisions involving the fields of science and technology. As a central part of its activity in recent years, CAS has devoted great importance to international collaborations.
"Asia is a rising power in the field of nano and China is a good example of this," says Nava Savarsky-Sofer, an international consultant in the field of technology commercialization and co-chairman of the nano conference. Israel-China conference, a satellite activity of the main conference, during which they will meet with representatives of academia and industry. You have to remember," says Seversky-Sofer, "that China and India are huge markets, which are many times the size of the markets in the US. These are countries whose development is accelerating, and which have decided at the governmental level to advance and specialize in the fields of science and technology. Nanotechnology, which is seen as a young science, It only benefits from this situation. Today, Israeli researchers and companies are looking eastward, both at the scientific level and at the level of business collaborations."
According to Prof. Rashef Tana, from the Weizmann Institute, and the chairman of the scientific committee of "Nano-Israel 2012", China has been investing a lot of resources in recent years in the fields of nano. From my visits to China and meetings with researchers and industrialists, it is clear to me that they are aligning themselves - and quickly - with many Western developed countries, when they see Israel and its research and industry in the fields of nano as a model for evaluation and imitation." The delegation will be officially hosted by Prof. Ruth Arnon, president of the National Academy of Science and Prof. Haim Gerti, Vice President of the Weizmann Institute.
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Yuval Steinitz, signed about a week ago in Beijing with the Chinese Minister of Finance, Xia Shuran, a financial protocol in the amount of over one billion shekels. The Chinese Minister of Finance, Xia Shuran, said at the signing ceremony that in China they are very satisfied with the cooperation the economic relations with Israel and that they are now examining how to further promote the scope of trade between the two countries in the future. "The economic relations between Israel and China are growing and growing rapidly to our satisfaction And we intend to take further steps to strengthen this trend. The implementation of many projects in the field of technology, in which Israeli companies are involved, are very important to our economic relations."
