Beijing Technological and Business University (BTBU) in collaboration with Economic Cooperation Organization Science Foundation (ECOSF) established a BTBU-ECOSF Joint Training Center on Scientific, Technological and Economic Cooperation under Belt and Road Initiative (hereinafter referred to as "Joint Training Center") under the funding of China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Program of International Collaboration Platform for Science and Technology Organizations in Belt and Road Countries on 25/September, 2020.

BTBU serves as a key high-level research university in Beijing, is expecting the grand celebration of its 70th anniversary in 2020. International development is crucial to BTBU in the new era as it is building itself as a high-level research university and actively serving the construction of the capital’s "Four Priorities". Having long been committed to promoting substantive exchanges and exchanges with overseas first-class universities and academic institutions, BTBU has achieved fruitful results in international exchanges and cooperation, personnel training, academic research, etc.

While, Economic Cooperation Organization Science Foundation (ECOSF) is an intergovernmental organization and a specialized agency of the ECO with a mandate to promote scientific and technological research with a vision to raise socio-economic standing of its 10-member states; Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. The ECO region is an epicenter of the ancient silk route and holds great significance as a gateway to connect China with the Middle East, South West Asia and Europe and beyond as three of China supported Economic Corridors (China Pakistan Economic Corridor, China-Tajikistan & westwards and China-Kazakhstan-Russia-Europe) transpires through ECO countries.

The core objective of this Joint Training Center is to establish a cross-industry and trans-disciplinary international training program to build essential human resource capital among participating countries to achieve overarching goals of BRI. The Joint Training Center will provide capacity building training to professionals of the ECO/BRI region in essential emerging areas of science and technology. And we also provided trainings to Chinese scientists and investors to understand more about BRI countries in standards, regulations and business environment. We truly believe that the Joint Training Center will play a crucial role to strengthen the scientific, economic and cultural exchanges among China, ECO Member States and other countries to promote the integrated development of industries, academia and research in the Belt and Road international cooperation.