"China New Technologies & Products Show" is to be held in Prague, Czech's capital, from 18th to 21st May 2004 according to the resolution of the 36th regular Sino-Czech intergovernmental conference on science and technology, which is sponsored by the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and organized by China Science and Technology Exchange Center. It is designed to introduce the development level of China's current scientific research and technological production capacity; to promote the scientific and technological exchanges and trade between China and Czech and enhance the understanding and friendship of the people of the two nations.

This Show will be divided into two parts. In the first part, photographs, papers, models and objects will be exhibited to show the results of China's scientific research in the high and new tech industry covering space, life science, information, automation, energy, new materials, astronomy, super-conductivity, earthquake monitoring and other fields, among which China's series of Long March rockets, Shenzhou spacecrafts, Fengyun meteorological satellites, study of High Temperature Super-conduct, Large Sky Area Multi-object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope, earthquake monitoring technique, Chinese 10MW High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor and other researches have reached the international level. In the second part, exhibition panels and objects will be used to show practical techniques and products recently developed in China including a range of industries such as mechanism, electronics, electric engineering, chemical industry, medical instruments, medicine, light industry, food and textile, etc.

About 50 scientific research institutes, universities, production enterprises and scientific and technological administrative departments from Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Hubei, Shandong, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Henan, Fujian, Anhui, Qingdao, Ningbo, Zhuhai and other provinces and cites will send representatives to this exhibition.

The Chinese government has attached great importance to this exhibition and considered that this exhibition will provide a good opportunity for the science and technology community and business circles of China and Czech to conduct exchanges and serve as a window for the Czech to have a better understanding of China in the contemporary era. We sincerely welcome audience from government departments, scientific and technological institutes, research institutions, business groups, enterprises, colleges and universities and other people from all walks of life to visit this exhibition to conduct negotiation and cooperation so as to promote extensive cooperation between China and Czech in the field of science, technology and trade.

We'd like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our Czech's partner, Incheba Praha, for its kind and generous support and assistance for this exhibition. We are confident that under the joint efforts of China and Czech this exhibition will be a complete success.