SAF and Beijing city sign strategic cooperation framework agreement

The Second Artillery Force (SAF) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Beijing Municipal People's Government signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement on military-civilian integration for innovation and development on the afternoon of September 20, 2012. The two sides agreed to strengthen cooperation in various aspects including project development, technology research, talent cultivation and infrastructure construction by taking the services for the combat-power building of the SAF and the capital's economic and social development as starting points, jointly pushing forward military-civilian integration for innovation and development between the SAF and Beijing city.

Jing Zhiyuan, member of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and commander of the SAF of the PLA, Zhang Haiyang, political commissar of the SAF of the PLA, Guo Jinlong, secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and Wang Anshun, acting mayor of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, attended the signing ceremony.

Jing Zhiyuan said in his speech that the official establishment of strategic cooperation partnership between the SAF of the PLA and the Beijing Municipal People's Government on military-civilian integration for innovation and development boasts important and profound significance in further giving full play to the two sides' advantages of military and civilian resources, effectively upgrading the level and standard of military-civilian integration, and accelerating the transformation of the combat-power generation mode of the SAF of the PLA and the economic development mode of Beijing city.

After signing the framework agreement, the SAF of the PLA and the Beijing Municipal People's Government will push forward the joint problem-tackling in scientific research projects and promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements through establishing a complete mechanism on military-civilian integration for innovation and development.

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