ANSO, the State Power Investment Corporation and Xinjiang Institute of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences signed the cooperation agreement of "Experiment and Demonstration of Photovoltaic Technology in Ecological Environment Management of the Aral Sea"

ANSO in official partnership with UNESCO (consultative status).

Tri-party MoU was signed between ANSO, CAS and UNESCO (through TWAS) on lauching the ANSO-CAS-TWAS/UNESCO Scholarship program providing support to students from other developing countries to study in China.

ANSO signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with International Technology Transfer Network,  which aims to carry out more substantive cooperation in training, think tanks and international technology transfer and transformation.

ANSO, as the initiator, participated in the Greater-bay Science Forum sponsored by Guangdong Provincial Government, and hosted the sub-forum on sustainable development, and worked closely with the Guangdong Provincial Government in related fields. 

ANSO signed the agreement on DATA Publishing and Application Show Cases with the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Tri-party agreement was signed between CAS Holdings, the Overseas Chinese Charity Foundation of China and ANSO on launching the STIC Charity Fund to support ANSO's acticities. 

ANSO acquired partnership qualification from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in preparation for concrete cooperation in the future.

ANSO signed a cooperation agreement with the Liaoning Provincial Government，to support integrated service platform of science and technology innovation which autonomous operating by local government.

ANSO and Nanjing University signed a MoU on Intern Cooperation.
ANSO signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with China Construction Investment Engineering Technology Co., LTD which will  focus on the belt and Road initiative in areas such as public health, food security and green technology, and focus on innovation capacity building and livelihood projects.

ANSO signed a cooperation agreement with Xiong’an Institute of Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences to build Xiong’an Innovation and Development Research Center for set up nation’s top-level technology thinktank supporting development of the Xiong’an New Area.

ANSO signed a MoU with the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) for promoting the development of scientific and technology innovation, carrying out major S&T cooperation, and realizing the mobility of technology and talent.

ANSO signed a MoU with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to enhance the collaboration on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) related to build the capacities for developing countries via training and assessment programmes.