According to officials from the Liaoning Provincial Personnel Department, Liaoning Province will set up a Sino-Russia science center at the Shenyang Institute of Technology (SIT) by the end of this year.

Dr Yao Jun said that the project has been approved by the Shenyang municipal government. Now the institute is waiting for the final approval from Liaoning provincial government. The center will work as the sub-centre of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and as the platform of co-operation between the two countries.