Professor Frans Greidanus was recently featured in a CGTN video interview on China’s 15th Five-Year Plan and cooperation between China and Europe in the fields of technology and industry.

Professor Greidanus is the former Head of Research and CTO of Philips in Asia, a guest professor at Zhejiang University and Jiangnan University. With extensive experience in technological innovation, R&D management, industrial cooperation, and China-Europe innovation exchange, he shared his observations on China’s 15th Five-Year Plan and the prospects for China-Europe cooperation.

In the interview, Professor Greidanus highlighted China’s continuing achievements in key technologies and the complementary strengths between China and the Netherlands in new energy, batteries, and advanced materials. These areas demonstrate important opportunities for collaboration in technological capabilities, industrial foundations, and market applications, and provide a strong basis for future cooperation across innovation and industrial value chains.

Professor Greidanus also emphasized that openness, trust, and people-to-people exchange are crucial for international cooperation. Genuine win-win cooperation, he noted, forms the foundation for long-term collaboration. The interview offers a valuable international perspective for understanding China’s next-stage development plan, China-Europe cooperation in technology and industry, and China-Netherlands innovation exchange.

Readers are welcome to watch the full CGTN video through the link below.