On May 8, several memorandums were signed at ESPOL. The first one was between ESPOL and BYD Auto, a chinese automobile manufacturer. Sergio Flores, ZEDE's president; Chunxiang Zhang, BYD Auto representative and Stella Li, global vicepresident established a strategic alliance that will favour the work at ZEDE del Litoral on technology transference and disaggregation and also to work with ESPOL's faculty and research centers.