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Kyiv, August 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) - China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation (CPMIEC) has said it is working on ways to extend cooperation with Ukraine in the space sector.

During a recent visit by a CPMIEC delegation to Ukraine, the parties discussed the prospects for cooperation in building satellites and using satellite information, as well as developing satellite radio communication equipment and solar energy systems, Interfax-Ukraine learned at the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU).

The Chinese delegates visited the Dnipropetrovsk-based Pivdenne Design Bureau and Kyiv-based state-owned Arsenal enterprise. Representatives of Kharkiv-based OJSC Research Institute for Radio Engineering and Institute of Superhard Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine also took part in the talks.

The Chinese People's Republic together with Russian Federation, EU member states, the United States and Brazil are among the main partners of Ukraine in the space sector.

The partnership is based on a Ukrainian-Chinese interstate agreement signed in 1995 on cooperation in research and the peaceful use of space, as well as other long-term cooperation plans.

As reported, representatives of NSAU discussed during a visit to Beijing in April the possibility of developing 15 new directions in the Ukrainian-Chinese space cooperation plan for 2006-2010.