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China, France sign 9 cooperation documents
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-13 08:38
China agreed Friday to buy 20 Airbus planes and a French satellite in two
contracts signed in French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's Matignon
Palace.
At the signing ceremony, seven other technical cooperation agreements were
also inked, with the presence of Raffarin and visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng
Peiyan after their talks.
The deals for 20 Airbus A330-200 planes and the French-made Alcatel
television satellite are valued at more than US$2 billion, according to
industrial sources.
The 20 Airbus jumbo jets are scheduled to be delivered to China from the
first quarter of 2006.
Pascale Sourisse, president of Alcatel Space, a subsidiary of the French
telecommunications group Alcatel, said his company had agreed to sell a
satellite to Chinasat, a Chinese satellite operator preparing for the 2008
Olympic Games in Beijing.
The Electricity of France signed with a Chinese company a letter of intent
concerning technical cooperation in building a nuclear power plant in southern
China's Guangdong province.
Other deals signed in the ceremony included a technology transfer program of
high-speed electric trains between French engineering group Alstom and China's
Datong Electric Locomotive Company.
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