Jiang Zehui, dean of the Chinese Academy of Forestry, meets a visiting group led by James Morgan, a member of the Nature Conservancy's Asia-Pacific Council and chairman of the board of Applied Materials, Inc., of the US, on June 22.

The parties exchanged views on strengthening and extending cooperation, and signed a Framework Agreement for Collaboration Between the Nature Conservancy and State Forestry Administration of the PRC.

(China.org.cn June 23, 2004)