FNA- Iranian Health Minister Hassan Hashemi arrived in China on Monday to attend an international conference in Shanghai.

The Iranian health minister, heading a high-ranking delegation, will attend the 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion in Shanghai.

Hashemi is also expected to visit the Suju Hospital later on Monday.

The Iranian health minister will also meet his Chinese counterpart and health ministers from other countries.

Hashemi is slated to give a lecture on sustainable development with good management of health section on Tuesday.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) website, more than 750 global leaders in politics, health and development have attended the Global Conference on Health Promotion in Shanghai to underscore the links between health and sustainable development, and to chart a joint way to progress on both.

The conference is timely. It takes place a year after world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations General Assembly, and just weeks after the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change entered into force, said the website.

In relevant remarks in late October, Vice-President for Scientific and Technological Affairs Sorena Sattari voiced Iran's preparedness to boost cooperation with China in various areas of science.

"The two countries enjoy the potential to boost cooperation in different fields, specially science and technology," Sattari said after paying a visit to Zhongguancun Science Park of China on Wednesday.

Iran�s deputy president for science and technology expressed the country�s readiness to develop scientific cooperation with China.

He underlined that Iran is doing its best to direct the country's economy towards knowledge-based one.

Zhongguancun Science Park is made up of a group of seven parks, covering an area of about 100 square kilometers at the Northwest edge of Beijing, close to the city's internationally esteemed educational institutions such as Tsinghua University, the University of Beijing, and the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS).