BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Science and technology have played a key role in China's poverty alleviation, a Chinese official said on Wednesday.
In the past five years, China has focused on the technical bottleneck of the agricultural industry and promoted more than 50,000 new varieties and technologies to increase the quality and efficiency of this industry in poor areas, He Defang, an official from the Ministry of Science and Technology told a press conference.
