His trip was the occasion to finalize the agreements signed with the Chinese observatories in 20051 by personal contact with the management team of the oldest existing Chinese observatory.
Last October, the president of the Observatoire de Paris travelled to Nanjing, China, where he visited the Purple Mountain Observatory, while he was attending an international conference in Shanghai.
His trip was the occasion to finalize the agreements signed with the Chinese observatories in 20051 by personal contact with the management team of the oldest existing Chinese observatory.