Chinese Science and Technology Minister Xu Guanhua and visiting
Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio signed a memorandum on
cooperation in the fight against severe acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS) here Monday.
According to the memorandum, the Spanish government will donate
229,000 euros to the Chinese government to buy laboratory
equipment, and offer about 240,000 euros for the construction of
medical care systems and personnel training in the poverty-stricken
Malipo and Jinping counties in southwest China's Yunnan
Province.
Spain will also entrust the medicine department of Beijing
University to publish and disseminate anti-SARS pamphlets, and
sponsor Spanish experts to visit China and hold technological
symposiums with Chinese experts, according to the memorandum.
The two ministers also exchanged views on bilateral cooperationin
science and technology, including medicine, before the signing
ceremony, and agreed to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in the
field.
(Xinhua News Agency July 8, 2003)
