Havana, Cuba.-Cuba and China signed new agreements this week to strengthen cooperation in renewable energies and industry, areas that are considered strategic for sustainable development.

About ten documents were signed during the three-day binational forum, attended by 18 companies from the Asian nation and 20 from Cuba.

Cuban Industry Minister Salvador Pardo Cruz and Gu Chengkui, director of China’s Center for Information and Industrial Development and head of the Chinese delegation, chaired the meetings. As a result of talks, Cuba’s Electronics Group and the Chinese company Haier signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint venture and a center for the development, research and applications of renewable energies.

A letter of intent expressed the interest of the Iron and Steel Industry group and the Chinese company Sany in the joint manufacture and development of wind towers and cranes.

The Cuban group and the Chinese consortium Yutong also signed an agreement on the development of electrical buses with renewable energy sources.