A plate-unveiling ceremony for a drug development and research center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was held in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan on Nov 23.

CAS President Bai Chunli unveiled the plate and made a speech, saying that the center offers an international platform of pharmaceutical industry demonstration and talent cultivation for countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.

He believed that it will facilitate the cooperation between China and countries along the Silk Road.

Zhang Wenchuan, the charge d'affaires of the Chinese embassy in Uzbekistan, said he hoped the center will always focus on the two countries’ joint efforts in Belt and Road construction and develop into a high-end national platform of scientific and technological innovation cooperation.

Bekhzod Yuldashev, President of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, spoke highly of the center and said it is a great achievement of scientific and technological cooperation between China and Uzbekistan and will be recorded in history forever.

On the same day, the Central Asian Science and Education Center of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was officially opened. After the ceremony, Bai Chunli and his delegation visited the GMP workshop, a clinical TCM research base and a joint laboratory (which includes a pilot technology platform for natural drug extraction), at the center.

Source: CAS