Orix To Promote Environmental Projects With China

Orix Co., a leading integrated financial services group, announced that it will sign an agreement to promote a strategic alliance with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a top governmental research institution to lead China's IT, biotechnology and other high-tech industries. Through this agreement, Orix and CAS have joined to promote environmental projects in the areas of water power generation, water treatment, solar power, electric vehicles and fuel cells to help China become a low-carbon society.