On the afternoon of October 25, project manager of SEED Programme, Sino-French Program for Environment and Sustainable Development, of CNRS Mrs. Catherine BASTIEN-VENTURA paid an amicable visit to our institute. In the course of this visit, an exchange meeting was held in the meeting room 210 of the West Building No. 5. In the exchange meeting, ICARE European Co-Dean Michel Frine introduced the guest to relevant information of ICARE. Mrs. BASTIEN VENTURA listened to the introduction with great interest and then expressed that there was large space for cooperation. She hoped that both parties could have feasible cooperation with each other in various forms on some specific projects in the future.

The participants of the exchange meeting also include Pierre PLICHON, commissioner for sustainable development affairs of Consulate General of the Republic of France in Wuhan; Marc Bondiou, consul for science and technology affairs of Consulate General of the Republic of France in Wuhan; Li Shanshan, assistant in science and technology office of Consulate General of the Republic of France in Wuhan; and Professor Hu Song, director of Scientific Research Center of ICARE.