RADI was recently awarded the title of "Model Base of International S&T Cooperation" in national Earth Observation field by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST).
Drawing on the infrastructures of RADI and its S&T advantages in the field of remote sensing and Earth observation, the Base will coordinate domestic and international S&T resources, base itself on the RADI’s international S&T cooperation platforms, innovate the international S&T cooperation patterns, keep developing the channel and scale of international S&T cooperation, strengthen global data and information sharing, and promote the development in depth and breadth in the field of remote sensing and digital Earth.
Constructing the "International S&T Cooperation Base" is an important measure of carrying out and implementing the "Outline of National Medium and Long-term Science and Technology Development Plans", is aiming at making use of domestic and overseas science and technology and intelligence resources, supporting and encouraging local R&D institutes, enterprises and parks with higher international science and technology cooperation levels to become bigger and stronger in order to thoroughly promote the scale and quality of international scientific and technological cooperation and strengthen the country’s independent innovation capacity.