The Promotion Association for scientific and technical cooperation between Austria and China (PASCO) was officially established by Austrian Chinese scholars on Sunday in Vienna.

The main purpose of PASCO is to offer a platform promoting exchanges and communication between the Austrian and Chinese scholars in such fields as science, technology, academic and information.

It also aims at offering the Austrian Chinese scholars helps and information to go to China and work there to contribute to scientific progress and development in China as well as scientific and technological cooperation between China and Austria.

Qian Faqiang, president of the PASCO said during an opening ceremony that the top Austrian Chinese scholars in different areas will be able to connected with others, strengthening the connection between Austrian Chinese scholars and China as well.

"We hope we could make more contributions to China's prosperity with our knowledge and skills," Qian said.

Professor Wu Wei, secretary-general of the PASCO, director of Rock and Soil Mechanics Institute, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, also stressed in his speech that one of the main tasks of the PASCO is to promote a bilateral communication of specialists and knowledge between Austria and China in concerned fields.

He also said that currently China is developing rapidly with a huge demand on human resource in all fields in every region of China, even in the small cities and small companies of China.

Most of the PASCO members, who are studying or doing research in such fields as civil engineering, agriculture, oil exploration, IT, renewable energy, fiber-optics communications, aerial survey, remote sensing, landscape architecture, railways, weather and software development, have doctor degrees.

(Xinhua News Agency May 29, 2011)