AUSTRALIAN and Chinese scientists have pledged to develop natural disaster early warning systems that could help prevent the devastating death tolls in Victoria's bushfires last month.

The remote sensing systems would be developed as part of a wider agreement between the CSIRO and Beijing University to develop next-generation wireless communication technology, formally signed yesterday.

China’s vice-minister for Science and Technology Dr Cao Jianlin and ALP Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education, Maxine McKew, opened a new wireless centre of excellence at the CSIRO’s radio physics research labs in Sydney to facilitate the agreement.

Speaking with assistance from an interpreter Dr Cao offered his condolences to victims of the Victorian bushfires and said that China and Australia faced similar geographic challenges in managing responses to natural disasters.

“We arrived in Australia the day before yesterday and we reached a consensus that we need to strengthen our collaboration in the field of an alternative to fight against the disaster of the bushfire,” Dr Cao said.

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