BEIJING: China’s resolve to promote innovation-driven development to accelerate the cultivation of new growth drivers is expected to help the country gain an edge in strategic emerging fields and tech frontiers.
It will also boost the nation’s long-term competitiveness globally amid external uncertainties, according to experts, economists and company executives.
Highlighting the pivotal role of sci-tech innovation in driving industrial upgrades and nurturing new quality productive forces, they said future policies will attach greater importance to strengthening fundamental research, achieving breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields and promoting industrial application of innovative achievements.
Their comments came as the Central Economic Work Conference, which concluded last Thursday, stressed the need to enhance innovation-driven development to cultivate fresh growth drivers.
Major international technological innovation centres will be established in Beijing, Shanghai and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The country will work to improve systems of intellectual property protection in emerging areas and launch the new round of a campaign to bolster the high-quality development of the industrial chain in key sectors. — China Daily/ANN
