18 March 2024 News The first Russian-Chinese conference "Russian and Chinese Cable Industry: Status, Achievements, Prospects" started on 18 March. This is not the first experience of scientific and technical cooperation with Shanghai colleagues from SECRI (Shanghai Electric Cable Research Institute) for VNIICP, the event organiser - for many years VNIICP and SECRI continue to develop bilateral partnership relations not only in the framework of joint scientific research, but also for the purpose of holding bilateral scientific and technical congress and exhibition events. Based on the results of the conference, Russian and Chinese cable engineers will outline new directions of scientific and technical co-operation. One of the issues is to discuss the holding of the Assembly of the Alliance of Asian Cable and Conductor Manufacturers' Associations (AWCCA) in Russia in 2024.