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State councilor urges closer Sino-US co-op on education
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-27 21:46

BEIJING: Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong met Henry Tzu-Yow Yang, chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Jean-Lou Chameau, president of California Institute of Technology, in Beijing Thursday.

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Liu said she hoped institutions of higher education and scientific research in China and the United States could cooperate in a more in-depth way on fostering talent and conducting scientific research.

She also hoped cooperation in education would promote bilateral humanistic exchanges and cooperation as well as the long-term and stable development of bilateral ties.

Yang and Chameau are visiting China at the invitation of China's  Ministry of Education.