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Beijing: Huo Yuping, China’s chief coordinator in the project, said participation was part of a systematic plan for developing fusion technologies.

“The international collaboration will lay a solid basis for our own efforts to building bigger experimental reactors at home,” said Mr. Huo, a Zhengzhou University professor and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang said the ITER project “bears vital significance in promoting Chinese scientists’ capability in fusion scientific research and technological development.” He said China would have an equal footing with all participants on deciding key issues of the ITER organisation, sharing construction, operation as well as research and development activities, obtaining equal opportunities with the other parties on intellectual property licensing. — Xinhua

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