Tech progress sought to drive growth

The nation will ramp up resources to make breakthroughs in cutting-edge and core technologies and promote the further integration of the internet and traditional industries, which will inject new impetus into China’s economic growth, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

Chen Zhaoxiong, viceminister of industry and information technology, said that more efforts will be made to enhance the capabilities of safeguarding key information infrastructure, network data and personal information, in a bid to build the nation’s strength in cyberspace.

Chen made the remarks at the 2018 China Internet Conference held in Beijing from Tuesday to Thursday, where he called for boosting digital and technological innovation in traditional industries and cultivating a new driving force for economic growth.

“We should also speed up the popularization of internet application and shrink the digital divide to offer more efficient, reliable and inclusive information services,” he added.