He made the remarks in a meeting with faculty members of Sharif University on Sunday.
He appreciated students trained in Sharif University and presented his suggestion for boosting cooperation in photonics field.
China is after breaking the monopoly of market which is for some limited countries, he added.
Lio referred to exchanging technical experiences and taking advantage of advance laboratory equipment in photonics field as major advantages of the plan.
Sharif University of Technology is a public research university in Tehran, Iran, and is widely considered to be the nation's leading institution for engineering and physical science disciplines.
Photonics is the physical science of light (photon) generation, detection, and manipulation through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing.
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