On 17 June, the signing ceremony of strategic cooperation agreement between the National Library of China (NLC) and the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) was held in the ISTIC. Both sides formally established a strategic partnership to comprehensively deepen the exchange and cooperation of scientific and technological information. Xiong Yuanming, director of the NLC, and Zhao Zhiyun, Secretary of the CPC Committee of the ISTIC, attended the activity.

Xiong Yuanming said that both the NLC and the ISTIC were important institutions supporting national scientific and technological innovation. This strategic cooperation had far-reaching significance for resource restructuring, complementary advantages and jointly promoting the development of national scientific and technological innovation. Both sides would carry out in-depth cooperation, strengthen cooperative development and sharing, work together to ensure scientific and technological information and provide public services, help build a national innovation system and a strong country in science and technology, and make new and greater contributions to the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.

Zhao Zhiyun said that the science and technology information service industry was facing new opportunities and challenges. The ISTIC was focusing on seizing the opportunity and window period of technological change to realize the transformation from information service to knowledge service. She hoped that through this strategic cooperation, both sides could complement each other's advantages in resources and services, improve the level of social public information services, and create a new situation in science and technology information security.

Xiong Yuanming and Zhao Zhiyun signed a cooperation agreement on behalf of both sides. According to the cooperation framework agreement, based on the principles of development, equality and mutual benefit, both sides would give full play to their respective advantages in the joint procurement and negotiation of databases, the construction and services of knowledge bases, decision-making reference services, the sharing of collection information, the construction and services of open access resources, comprehensively deepen exchanges and cooperation, and establish a strategic partnership for sustainable development.

The participants also visited the ISTIC Decision Theater, watched the demonstration of the construction of the national science and technology management information system and other platforms, and exchanged concrete measures for cooperation between the two sides.