BEIJING: President Xi Jinping has underscored the importance of scientific and technological self-reliance and innovation in supporting China’s sustained development, and he reiterated the nation’s opening-up despite the trend in some countries against economic globalization and the rising tide of protectionism.
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks during an inspection tour of northeastern China’s Liaoning province on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The inspection tour took Xi to the cities of Jinzhou and Shenyang, where he visited a revolutionary memorial, a forest park, an enterprise and a residential community. He also met with representatives of military officers stationed in Shenyang, the provincial capital.
While visiting Siasun Robot and Automation Co in Shenyang on Wednesday, Xi learned about local efforts to promote scientific and technological innovation.
The CPC Central Committee attaches great importance to technological self-reliance and innovation and emphasizes fostering the environment for innovation in promoting the innovation-driven development strategy, he said.
Noting that China has to pursue the path of self-reliance and innovation in order to comprehensively build a modern socialist country, Xi called for efforts to solve the critical technological problems hindering the nation’s development and “take the core technologies in key fields and equipment manufacturing into our own hands”.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily exchange item
