WUHAN, June 30 (ABC): President Xi Jinping has stressed building up China’s strength in the science and technology sector, sticking to the dynamic zero-COVID policy and improving community management.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks during his inspection in Wuhan, capital city of central China’s Hubei Province, on Tuesday.
Xi underscored the need to foster more advanced technologies and sectors, blaze new spheres of economic development, and create new advantages in international competition. While inspecting HGLaser Engineering Co., Ltd., a laser equipment company based in Wuhan, Xi noted that optoelectronic information is a high-tech industry in which China has the conditions to take the lead in achieving breakthroughs.
He urged efforts to strengthen the relevant technological research and development, master more core technologies with independent intellectual property rights, expand innovation chains, and improve industrial chains.
Breaking through bottlenecks in core technologies in key fields has been a pressing task, Xi said, calling for speeding up the realization of the country’s scientific and technological self-reliance. High-end manufacturing is an important pillar of high-quality economic development, Xi said.
Xi had cordial conversations with the employees of the company. Noting that China is the world’s second-largest economy but still has some weak links, Xi said further development must be based on innovation. He then visited a residential community named Zhiyuan in the Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone.
Xi said that Wuhan has swiftly controlled several COVID-19 cluster infections over the past two years since the city won the battle against the outbreak in 2020. This shows that the epidemic response measures laid out by the CPC Central Committee are correct and effective, and must be upheld unwaveringly, Xi noted.