10 January 2018
During a State Visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to the People’s Republic of China, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall signed a memorandum of understanding on climate actions and space exploration with Wu Yanhua, Acting Administrator of the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The MoU was signed on 9 January in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China. This boost to French-Chinese space cooperation was followed on 10 January by President Macron’s visit to CNSA’s technical facility, where he was shown the CFOSat (Chinese-French Oceanic Satellite) ocean-observing satellite that is the cornerstone of the two nations’ joint efforts to tackle climate change. Macron also visited the China Academy of Space Technology in Beijing, where he received a scale model of the China-France Oceanography Satellite to be launched this year.
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