Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy and China’s Ministry of Science and Technology met in Washington last week to review joint energy research projects — including one on clean vehicles led by U-M and administered by the U-M Energy Institute. U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang led the meeting, which also focused on the other collaborations involving coal technology and energy-efficient buildings. The joint project marks groundbreaking collaborations and intellectual property agreements between the two countries on energy research. Fourteen U-M faculty and 16 graduate students are part of the U-M center.

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