Continuous efforts highlighted to strengthen core competitiveness
Chinese firms show confidence in tech self-reliance
The Chinese leadership has called for continuous efforts to strengthen the core competitiveness of the manufacturing sector and bolster the modernization of supply and industrial chains, in a major effort to promote China’s high-quality development and modernization drive.
Chinese experts said the remarks show the strategic vision of the leadership, and also “the importance and urgency” of tech progress in the face of the prolonged US technology blockade. Chinese technology companies said they are encouraged to become technologically self-reliant, and their confidence in innovation has been spurred.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has called for further promoting the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt to better support and serve Chinese modernization.
Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said continued efforts should be made to strengthen the core competitiveness of the manufacturing sector, develop advanced manufacturing, enhance coordination along the industrial chains, promote the extension of industrial chains for competitive industries, and cultivate emerging industries.
This is another important explanation for profoundly improving scientific and technological innovation by the Chinese leader, said Ma Jihua, a veteran industry analyst.
Focusing on strategic emerging pillar industries such as semiconductors and displays, we will promote industrial chain extension, and continue to implement and enhance the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry, said Zhejiang Sineva Intelligent Technology Co, a tech company that seeks to provide mobile robot solutions, a response after the leader’s remarks.
In the face of the US’ intensified blockade and the waging of the tech war against China, we can also feel the importance and urgency of making tech progress, Ma said.
The US has never stopped its escalated technology war against China. As one of the latest acts, the Biden administration is considering closing a so-called loophole that gives Chinese companies access to American artificial intelligence chips through units located overseas, Reuters reported on Friday.
In the face of a US blockade, the Chinese government has also taken sci-tech self-reliance and self-strengthening as strategic support for national development, while also actively seeking international cooperation in the sci-tech sector.
Chinese experts said that the tough situation that China is facing in this field can also be taken as an opportunity, “forcing us to systematically solve the current bottleneck problems and achieve high-level development,” Ma said.