On August 16, Huang Hong, vice chairman of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (STCSM) and deputy director-general of Shanghai Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), met with Dr. Pongpan Kaewtatip, Vice President of Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI).

Huang welcomed Dr. Kaewtatip and his colleagues and hailed the two parties’ fruitful cooperation since 2020 when STCSM and TSRI signed an MoU on sci-tech innovation cooperation. She highlighted that the two parties have supported Chinese and Thai innovation entities to co-launch scientific research projects, co-build laboratories, and share platforms for technological transfer and commercialization, in key areas such as environment and sustainability, and smart city. The STCSM leader also noted that the increasing number of cooperation projects indicates a vigorous momentum of sic-tech cooperation between Shanghai and Thailand.

Dr. Kaewtatip appreciated the meeting with STCSM and introduced TSRI and Thailand’s National STI Master Plan. He said that TSRI puts a premium on its sci-tech innovation cooperation with Shanghai. Dr. Kaewtatip hoped that the two parties will have cooperation in more areas and under more models with the opening of the Green Technology Bank (GTB) Bangkok Center, the bank’s first overseas branch. He invited STCSM to visit Thailand and introduce more of China’s outstanding green technologies and firms to the country.

The Green Technology Bank (GTB) Bangkok Center was inaugurated this May. GTB, an international cooperation platform set up in 2017 by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, is committed to fulfilling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promoting green technologies to propel the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative and build a community with a shared future for mankind. The Bangkok Center aims to promote the transfer and application of advanced and applicable green technologies, and advance benchmark green, low-carbon projects and green solutions in Thailand and other ASEAN countries.