China and France signed the Minutes.

(CNSA Website) The Fifth Meeting of Joint China-France Committee on Space Cooperation was held in Beijing On Sep. 8-9, 2005. Dr.Sun Laiyan, Administrator of China National Space Administration and Chinese chairman of the Joint Committee, and Mr.Yannick d'Escatha, President of CNES and French chairman of the Joint Committee, co-chaired the meeting.

During the meeting, the four working groups held discussions respectively on the fields of space science, earth science, space life science and space application and worked out the future cooperation plans. The Minutes was signed after the meeting.