Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko visited the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Area. In particular, the Deputy Prime Minister reviewed the developments of the robotics centre and the demonstration zone for high-level autonomous driving, as well as a specialised incubator for unmanned technologies and a drone certification centre.
Dmitry Chernyshenko is a member of the Russian delegation taking part in President Vladimir Putin’s working visit to China.
“The day before, at the meeting of the SCO Heads of State Council in China, President Vladimir Putin noted the expansion of cooperation among participants in science and education. Today, about 300 Russian and 500 Chinese organisations are implementing or planning to implement more than a thousand joint scientific projects,” the Russian Deputy Prime Minister stressed.
He added that the experience of the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone can be applied when creating technology parks as part of world-class campuses. It is there that resident companies will develop innovative products for the regions of the Russian Federation.
The Russian Deputy Prime Minister noted that Russia had launched a number of state support measures as part of the Youth and Children national project, for universities engaged in research for strategically important industries. For example, Moscow State University of Technology STANKIN, a participant in the Priority-2030 programme, presented developments in robotics and unmanned aircraft systems, while Southern Federal University, as part of its advanced engineering school, trains highly qualified engineers in mechatronics and robotics.
Dmitry Chernyshenko highlighted the high level of scientific cooperation between Russia and China. The most popular areas of joint projects include mathematical and natural sciences, engineering, technology and technical sciences, social sciences, healthcare, and medicine.
A working group on high technology and innovation, as well as a subcommittee on scientific and technical cooperation, operate on a permanent basis. The key document guiding this partnership is the Roadmap of Russian-Chinese cooperation in science, technology, and innovation until 2025.
Russia and China are also engaged in a competitive selection of scientific projects of their respective ministries. Fifteen projects were supported this year alone. Among their subjects are advanced materials, high-precision chemical industry, information technologies, new transport systems and other areas.
The Deputy Prime Minister added that the launch of the interesting projects that were prepared under the sub-commission on the scientific, technological and innovative development, as well as the working group, would happen in the near future.
It should be pointed out that the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Area accommodates representative offices of over 26,000 companies engaged in such fields as information technology, automotive industry, biotechnologies, bioscience, robotics and intellectual production. One of its features is a focus on environmentally sound technologies.
The demonstration area of high-level autonomous driving has been built to support the large-scale operation of high-level autonomous vehicles. Licenses for testing have been issued to 35 companies for over 1,000 vehicles.
The robotics centre display shows 50 robots different in terms of functionality from 30 companies. They include: sorting robots, baristas, loaders, surgery and diagnostic robots, a fish robot to determine water pollution and others.
The Deputy Prime Minister also emphasized that artificial intelligence is one of the most promising cooperation areas. It was President Vladimir Putin who instructed to develop cooperation with China in artificial intelligence at the December AI Journey conference. Three Chinese associations joined the international AI Alliance Network set up by Russia last year.
