Skip to content
AidData logo

Overview

Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology Provides $1.4 million Joint Fund to China-New Zealand joint research projects

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$1,186,765
Commitment Year•2013Country of Activity•New ZealandDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•New ZealandSector•Other MultisectorFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2013

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • China Ministry of Science & Technology

Cofinancing agencies

Government Agencies

  • New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • University of Auckland
  • University of Waikato

State-owned companies

  • Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
  • National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

Loan description

Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology Provides $1.4 million Joint Fund to China-New Zealand joint research projects

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

In November 2013, four joint New Zealand-Chinese research projects were announced to receive $1.4 million funding over the next three years under the Strategic Research Alliance (SRA) Joint Research Programme. The SRA is jointly funded by the New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). The three areas that projects under the SRA will be focusing on are Water, Non-communicable Diseases, and Food Safety & Security. The four projects selected to receive funding through the 2013/14 process are: Water New methods and technologies to enhance land use practices and restore ecological resilience of significant aquatic ecosystems – University of Waikato and NIWA with Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology and Jinan University. Food Safety and Security Early warning and sustainable management of rodent pests – Landcare with China Agricultural University, Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science and Beijing Longhua Xinye Sanitary Pesticide Co. Ltd. Non-communicable Diseases Tumour-targeted FGFR therapeutics for smoking-related lung cancer – University of Auckland with Guangzhou institutes of Biomedicine and Health and the Chinese Academy of Sciences) Developing new anti-cancer drugs against genetically defined targets – University of Auckland with the National Center for Drug Screening / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences)