Havana (Reuters) – Cuba and China signed Saturday a
agreement to promote biotechnology among both cooperation
Nations and promote research for the development of
vaccines.
China has injected billions of dollars in
loans to Cuba in recent years, has become in his
main creditor and its second largest trading partner after
Venezuela, which is its economic ally number one in the world.
“Cuba and China today drew its lines of work in the
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biotechnology in the next five years research
2012-2016, aimed at strengthening the Exchange in this
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discipline”, said Prensa Latina News Agency, quoting
a meeting of two days between both scientific authorities
countries.
Beijing and Havana signed an agreement between the company
china Hualan Biological Bacterial and the Finlay Institute of
Cuba, aimed at the development research of
vaccines, said the Agency.
The Minister of science, technology and environment of
Cuba, Jose Miyar Barruecos, said that “cooperation in the
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biotechnology between Cuba and China field is of a nature
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strategy”.
A Chinese diplomatic source in Havana said that more than
200 companies in his country have relations with Cuba.
And more than 20 companies and Cuban entities have been established in
Beijing, Hangzhou, Shenzhsen and other cities in the nation
Asian.
Beijing reported that during the last decade the Exchange
commercial bilateral increased from $ 440 million
in 2001 to 1.830 million dollars by 2010,
according to figures official.
Cuba currently produces approximately 38 medicines which are
they traded in some 40 countries.
Laboratories of the island produce vaccines against the
meningitis B and C, leptospirosis, typhoid fever and a
synthetic vaccine against haemophilus influenzae type B, the
main causes of meningitis and other infections
children’s.
