A group of CAS delegates led by CAS President BAI Chunli visited Pakistan from July 15 to 17, 2012, conducting academic exchanges and communications with scientific staff in Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS), National University of Science &Technology, Pakistan, and Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences.

ITP Profs. YAO Tandong and ZHANG Yinsheng were among the visiting group. They were also invited to deliver speeches during the PAS-CAS bi-national conference, where Prof. Yao introduced “Sino-Pakistan cooperation study under the framework of TPE program” and Prof. Zhang reported “Observational Research of Land surface hydrology in upper Indus river basin, north Pakistan”.

The bilateral conference also witnessed thorough discussion of potentials for cooperative study in the nano science and technology, internet security, ecology and environmental sciences.

Besides the group visit, ITP Prof. Yao also met with Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) Chairman Mr Ahmed Bilal. Both sides highly approved joint research achievement between ITP and SUPARCO under the framework of the TPE program, and agreed to further promote the cooperation.