During Bill Gates' visit to China, the Gates Foundation announced a donation of US $50 million to cooperate with China to develop innovative drugs.
Thank you, Mr. Air, a netizen of CTOnews.com, for your clue delivery! CTOnews.com, June 15, the Gates Foundation announced this afternoon that it will continue to work with the Beijing Municipal Government and Tsinghua University to support the Global Health Drug Research and Development Center (hereinafter referred to as "GHDDI") to develop life-saving drugs to treat infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria that seriously affect the world's poorest people and to improve global health.
GHDDI, founded in 2016 with the support of the Beijing Municipal Government, Tsinghua University and the Gates Foundation, is China's first new non-profit R & D institution with a cooperative model between government and social capital, according to the Gates Foundation.
In order to further strengthen GHDDI's drug research and development capabilities, the Gates Foundation has pledged to donate US $50 million (CTOnews.com Note: about RMB 358 million) to GHDDI in the next five years, the Beijing Municipal Government has promised to provide financial support of the same scale, and Tsinghua University will continue to support GHDDI development in scientific research platform construction and sharing, achievement transformation, and personnel training.
CTOnews.com learned from the announcement that the news was announced after Bill ∙ Gates, co-chairman of the Gates Foundation, visited GHDDI today. During his visit to GHDDI, Bill ∙ Gates delivered a speech entitled "meeting Global challenges with Innovation".
"in the past four years, the world has experienced the COVID-19 epidemic, the resurgence of infectious diseases, the intensification of the impact of climate change and famine in some areas," Bill ∙ Gates said in his speech. "addressing these challenges has become more urgent than ever. China has made great achievements in reducing poverty and improving national health."
In his speech, Bill ∙ Gates praised Tu Youyou, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Yuan Longping, "the father of hybrid rice". "Yuan Longping's achievements have always attracted me," Gates said. "he cultivated the world's first hybrid rice variety, which not only changed China's agriculture and economy, but also helped to feed a large population. Inspired by his work, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the world's most important agricultural research platform, has invested more money in rice research. Yuan Longping also trained more than 3000 rice scientists from more than 50 countries to bring their experience back to their own countries. As a result, billions of people have been able to survive and develop, and it is hard to imagine what innovation can match it. "
The full text of Bill Gates' speech is attached to CTOnews.com:
