On April 7th, PresidentGe Shirong,Vice PresidentWang Jiachen, together withother4people visited China Coal Science & Engineering Group(CCTEG).The two sideshad a discussion and exchange on deepening scientific and technological cooperation and promoting the implementation of strategic cooperation agreement.Hu Shanting, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of CCTEG, and Zhang Yanlu, Chief Engineer and President of ChinaCoalResearch Institute(CCRI), attended themeeting.

Both sides believe that strengthening scientific and technological cooperation will help bring into full play their respective advantages, enhance their capacity for scientific and technological innovation and the level of commercializationso as to promote scientific and technological progress and industrial upgrading; the two sides agree to establish a long-term mechanism and formulate specific measures to promote the development of scientific and technological innovation bases and platforms,R&Dprojects, talentscultivation, and the development of smart mines and the coal industryinternet construction; the two sides indicatesthat they will continue to deepen the cooperation of industry, university, research and application, jointly tackle key and core technologies in the coal industry anditsrelated fields, promote in-depth integration of innovation chains and industrial chains, and support quality development of thecoalindustry.