China and Russia will boost cooperation in high-tech research and development, it was announced in Harbin, provincial capital of China's northern Heilongjiang province on Thursday.

Priorities for cooperation will include applied chemistry, biotechnology, genetic engineering, new materials, machinery and electronics and machinery.

A bilateral committee on science cooperation, which is under the Joint Commission for the Regular Meetings of Heads of Government of China and Russia, convened to discuss in a deep-going way possible cooperation between the two countries' national research institutes, and former military technology.

The Chinese and Russian governments also plan to invest US$4 million each to build a science and technology park in Moscow in the next three years.

The park is expected to boost joint researches and uses for the latest high technology.

(People's Daily July 5, 2002)