The Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC) and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) held this year's annual seminar, on Jan 13, with the theme of "The World and China: New Pattern and New Concept".

Key speaker at the seminar was Mark Lowcock, the DFID's permanent secretary, covering international development policies. Lowcock said there are high expectations for cooperation and exchanges between the DRC and the DFID in the future, especially for the Knowledge Center for International Development and research projects related.

China can make use of the UK's resources in establishing the Knowledge Center for International Development and in its development. Both sides can also deepen their academic and policy research and increase cooperation by providing scholarship or in other ways.

The two will continue to study China's role in international governance and discuss the consistency of international development policies globally and domestically, he added.

DRC's vice-president, Zhang Junkuo, said China has rich experience in development, reforms and opening-up for new development theory and Chinese pattern research, and it also needs to learn from the UK in terms of the study of policy process and evaluation as well as international governance and international development aid.

The DRC and the DFID held their first seminar in 2014 and plan to make it an annual event to discuss topics that both are interested in.

The Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC) and the UK's Department for International Development held their annual seminar for this year on Jan 13 in Beijing.