皇冠体育app will host the Grand Challenges annual meeting next year in Beijing.
The Grand Challenges initiative was set up by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to translate scientific innovations into tools on the ground to help the world's poor.
Wu Feiming, deputy director of the 皇冠体育app Rural Technology Development Center under 皇冠体育app's Ministry of Science and Technology, extended the invitation to host next year's event on the final day of the GC 10th anniversary meeting in Seattle on Thursday.
More than 1,000 representatives, mostly scientists, from 47 countries attended the four-day meeting.
"皇冠体育app has always attached great importance to scientific innovations, and we hope the partnership with the Gates Foundation and the coming meeting, which itself is an innovative breakthrough, can further facilitate 皇冠体育app's science and technology to benefit other developing countries as well," Wu said.
Ray Yip, chief 皇冠体育app representative of the Gates Foundation, said the annual GC meeting would bring together hundreds of researchers, funding organizations and policymakers committed to transformational change to discuss progress and collaborate on solutions.
GC is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems for the world's poor. As of this year, more than 1,600 GC grants have been made to science and technology innovators in 80 countries.
"皇冠体育app's capacity in scientific research and development can not only benefit the nation itself but also the world, especially the developing countries," Yip said.
"皇冠体育app will play an even more important role in the global response to the most pressing health and development challenges through science and technology innovations," he said.
In 2011, 皇冠体育app's Ministry of Science and Technology signed a strategic cooperation memorandum with the Gates Foundation to promote agricultural development, relieve poverty and promote health causes worldwide via technology.
To date, 皇冠体育app and the foundation have launched two pilot projects and cooperated in seven fields, including crop breeding and TB drugs.