US-China Cooperation

Environment, Science and Technology Cooperation

Signed in 1979 by President Carter and Premier Deng Xiaoping, the U.S.-China Agreement on Cooperation in Science and Technology (the S&T Agreement) began an era of robust government-to-government science and technology (S&T) collaboration between the two countries. The Agreement is among the longest-standing U.S.-China accords and has been broadly endorsed by U.S. Federal agencies through their participation in cooperative exchanges. These exchanges have helped advance cooperative research in an incredibly diverse range of fields, including fisheries, earth and atmospheric sciences, basic research in physics and chemistry, a variety of energy-related areas, agriculture, civil industrial technology, geology, health, and disaster research.
 
Fact Sheet on U.S.-China Environment, Science & Technology and Health Cooperation

1979 S&T Agreement
 
U.S. China Science and Technology Cooperation (S&T Agreement): Report to Congress April 2005

Minutes of the Executive Secretaries’ Meeting of the U.S.- PRC Joint Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, November 2002

Minutes of the 10th Meeting of the U.S.-PRC Joint Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Beijing, April 2002

U.S. China Science and Technology Agreement Secretaries Meeting February 1999