Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC) is a talent cultivation and scientific research institute supported by the Chinese government based on the exchange of official letters between the Chinese government and the Kenyan government. The headquarters of SAJOREC is located at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya, and the host institutes are Wuhan Botanical Garden of CAS (WBG, CAS) and JKUAT, respectively.
First of its kind in Africa, SAJOREC serves as the platform and bridge of scientific cooperation between the Chinese and the African scientists in a wide range of fields. It is a hub of Sino-Africa collaboration on biodiversity-related research, it also focuses on areas such as wildlife protection, prevention and treatment of desertification, climate change monitoring, and modern agriculture demonstration.
In the future, SAJOREC will unremittingly put forward scientific cooperation of mutually benefit, and provide more training and education opportunities for the overall sustainable development of all African countries.