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Ukraine and China are preparing to hold a second meeting of the Ukrainian-Chinese sub-commission on cooperation in the space sector in Beijing in April, the State Space Agency of Ukraine has told Interfax-Ukraine.

The participants in the meeting will discuss the implementation of the Ukrainian-Chinese space cooperation program for 2011-2015.

Ukraine and China signed a new program for cooperation in the exploration and use of space for peaceful purposes for 2011-2015 in September 2010.

The program includes over 50 priority and promising joint projects. They concern the creation of a joint space system for Earth observation, a joint ionospheric satellite to create an earthquake prediction system, as well as the creation and delivery to Chinese partners of a wide range of equipment for rocket and space technology.

Cooperation between Ukraine and China in the space sector is based on an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes, which was signed in 1995, as well as on long-term cooperation plans.