BEIJING: President Xi Jinping underlined on Tuesday the need to mobilize all of the nation’s available resources to make breakthroughs in core technologies in order to overcome obstacles hindering the country’s development and to gain a competitive edge in key fields.
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while presiding over a meeting of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform. He is also head of the commission.
During the meeting, Xi emphasized leveraging the prominent advantages of the socialist system in mobilizing all resources available to address major problems, and he called for strengthening the Party’s and the country’s leadership in major scientific and technological innovation while fully leveraging the role of the market.
He stressed the need to focus on the nation’s strategic demand in the scientific sector, optimize the allocation of resources for technological innovation, enhance the nation’s strategic forces in science and technology and significantly raise the country’s capacity for overcoming difficulties in technological progress. Xi called for giving full play to the role of academicians in the fields of science and technology as well as engineering in order to allow them to increase their importance in promoting the nation’s high-level technological independence and self-reliance.
The meeting adopted a series of documents, including a guideline on improving the new type of national system for making breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields, a guideline on deepening reforms of the academician system and a guideline on comprehensively strengthening the conservation of resources.
Participants in the meeting called for pooling the resources of the government, market and society in order to make breakthroughs in core technologies. While stressing the need to make collective and coordinated efforts, they said that efforts should also be made to solve the problems in key fields and major projects that matter to the country’s industrial and economic development and national security. Emphasis should be placed on core technologies with early-development advantages and cutting-edge technologies that will set the pace for future development, they said.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange itemPresident Xi Jinping underlined on Tuesday the need to mobilize all of the nation’s available resources to make breakthroughs in core technologies in order to overcome obstacles hindering the country’s development and to gain a competitive edge in key fields.
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while presiding over a meeting of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform. He is also head of the commission.
During the meeting, Xi emphasized leveraging the prominent advantages of the socialist system in mobilizing all resources available to address major problems, and he called for strengthening the Party’s and the country’s leadership in major scientific and technological innovation while fully leveraging the role of the market.
He stressed the need to focus on the nation’s strategic demand in the scientific sector, optimize the allocation of resources for technological innovation, enhance the nation’s strategic forces in science and technology and significantly raise the country’s capacity for overcoming difficulties in technological progress. Xi called for giving full play to the role of academicians in the fields of science and technology as well as engineering in order to allow them to increase their importance in promoting the nation’s high-level technological independence and self-reliance.
The meeting adopted a series of documents, including a guideline on improving the new type of national system for making breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields, a guideline on deepening reforms of the academician system and a guideline on comprehensively strengthening the conservation of resources.
Participants in the meeting called for pooling the resources of the government, market and society in order to make breakthroughs in core technologies. While stressing the need to make collective and coordinated efforts, they said that efforts should also be made to solve the problems in key fields and major projects that matter to the country’s industrial and economic development and national security. Emphasis should be placed on core technologies with early-development advantages and cutting-edge technologies that will set the pace for future development, they said.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
