China will spare no efforts to fulfill its international
obligations on nuclear non-proliferation and enhance international
cooperation in peaceful utilization of nuclear energy, said Jin
Zhuanglong, deputy director of the Commission of Science,
Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND).
Jin told a COSTIND meeting on international cooperation held on
Monday that China will promote bilateral and multilateral
cooperation and enhance its cooperation with the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, in the
nuclear field during the Eleventh-Five Year Plan period
(2006-2010).
Jin said China will introduce and absorb advanced technologies
pertaining to large pressurized-water reactor nuclear power plan,
spent fuel commercialized reprocessing facility, high temperature
gas cool reactor, fast reactor, nuclear desalination, uranium
mining and nuclear security, and take an active part in the
international research of nuclear fusion reactor and the
forth-generation nuclear energy.
China will also strengthen nuclear export control by
establishing a nuclear exporters' qualification scrutiny
system.
Jin said China will set up a training center of nuclear
safeguards supervision and nuclear security in the Asia-Pacific
region and develop a domestic system for obligations fulfillment by
building experts and supporting teams.
In international cooperation of peaceful utilization of nuclear
energy, China has signed 70 international treaties and
inter-department agreements in total, said Jin.
China entered the Nuclear Suppliers Group in 2004, a major step
for the country to join international non-proliferation
efforts.
Jin said China has continued to deepen nuclear cooperation with
Russia, and established regular meeting mechanisms at the
ministerial level and the multi-level working mechanisms with
France, South Korea and Japan respectively.
The first phase of the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan,
a China-Pakistan cooperative project, has been completed and put
into operation as scheduled, and the second phase is under
construction.
The COSTIND is mainly responsible for researching and drafting
guidelines, policies and laws concerning science, technology and
industry for national defense, organizing and managing quality,
safety, measurement, standards, statistics and records in the area
of defense-related science, technology and industry.
The COSTIND is also responsible for undertaking the organization
and management of all international cooperation and exchanges and
overseeing matters relating to bilateral and multilateral
international cooperation in the area of science, technology and
industry for national defense.
(Xinhua News Agency August 29, 2006)
