STORY: Spanish AI director welcomes Spain-China scientific cooperation agreement
SHOOTING TIME: Sept. 16, 2024
DATELINE: Sept. 18, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:11
LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain
CATEGORY: POLITICS/TECHNOLOGY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of projects in China
2. SOUNDBITE (Catalan): CARLES SIERRA, Head of Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Spanish National Research Council

STORYLINE:

China and Spain signed an agreement to boost scientific cooperation during Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's visit to China last week.

This move has been welcomed by Spain's scientific community, including a top AI researcher who told Xinhua on Monday that collaboration is essential for research.

SOUNDBITE (Catalan): CARLES SIERRA, Head of Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Spanish National Research Council
"Today, science and technology are developed in large teams, and this can be seen by the fact that big technology companies have huge teams of engineers and researchers to meet the challenges they face. It's clear that either research is collaborative or there is none.
Collaboration in science has to be common. 01:01 It's no longer possible to think that a single person can revolutionize the world with his or her ideas.
Not long ago, we were visited by a delegation from the Chinese Academy of Sciences about issues of artificial intelligence applied to education, and we shared ideas and looked into the possibility of collaborating in the future. 
There are a lot of students from China who go abroad to train and many who come back again, and lately there are many more western researchers who are going to pursue a career in China and who are being hired by Chinese universities. So, I think the flow back and forth is working well."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Barcelona, Spain.
(XHTV)