China News Service, Shanghai, February 7 (Xinhua) Chen Jining, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, held a video connection with Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of the United States, on the 7th.
Chen Jining said that in June last year, President Xi Jinping met with Mr. Gates and expressed his appreciation for you and the foundation's long-term commitment to promoting global poverty reduction, health, development and philanthropy. As the forefront of China's reform and opening up and an international metropolis deeply connected to the world, Shanghai is accelerating modernization in accordance with President Xi Jinping's strategic planning, continuously improving people's quality of life with higher-quality development, and allowing ordinary people to live a better life. We have consistent concepts and goals in improving people's health and well-being and promoting sustainable development. We hope to further strengthen communication and docking, improve cooperation mechanisms, and better combine the foundation's own advantages with Shanghai's openness, scientific innovation, and clinical advantages. We will work closely together to promote cooperation in scientific and technological innovation, life and health, public health, rural revitalization and other fields with greater intensity and practical steps. We will make every effort to create an open innovation ecosystem, actively build a regulatory system that is compatible with high-level openness and new technological changes, and provide better services and create better conditions for various institutions to innovate and develop in Shanghai.
Bill Gates introduced the foundation’s cooperation with China and its future development plans. He said that the foundation is committed to introducing global innovation to China, promoting Chinese innovation to the world, and drawing experience and practices from China's innovation practice to better respond to global challenges. Shanghai is rich in innovation resources, intensive in innovation activities, and gathered in innovation opportunities. It is willing to work with global partners to deepen pragmatic cooperation in the fields of life and health, drug research and development, agriculture and rural areas, and environmental sanitation, work together in research and development, and promote the formation of more innovative results and solutions. . (over)