Representatives of Areva and the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) signed an agreement "related to the pursuit of the used fuel treatment and recycling facility project, the subject of a letter of intention signed in April 2013." In the April 2013 letter of intention France and China agreed to start a project that will include construction of a reprocessing facility and a MOX fuel fabrication plant in China. According to the press release, "the industrial negotiations for this project are advancing" and "the negotiations will be entering the commercial phase."