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Top authorities discuss sci-tech development
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-06-28 15:47
The Political Bureau of the central Committee of the Communist Party of China
(CPC) held a meeting in Beijing Monday to discuss major issues concerning the
long-and medium-term program for the country's science and technology
development.
The meeting, presided by Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central
Committee, also deliberated on steps to accelerate science and technology
development.
"We must work more consciously to promote and rely on science and technology
progress and innovation in a broader field so as to realize a substantial step
forward in the development of the country's productivity," said a source with
the meeting.
It was agreed at the meeting that formulating and implementing china's first
long- and medium-term science and technology development program in this century
is vital to realizing the goal of ensuring the Chinese people a relatively
comfortable life, the success of the socialist modernization drive and the great
rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Noting that China lags behind the international advanced level in overall
science and technology development, the meeting urged efforts to scientifically
propose guiding principles, strategic targets and focal points for scientific
and technological progress and work out a practical development plan.
"We must unswervingly take scientific and technological progress and
innovation as the primary driving force for social and economic development, and
take the improvement of independent innovation capacity as the central link in
readjusting the economic structure, transforming the mode of growth and
increasing the competitiveness of the country," the meeting noted.
The participants also urged Chinese scientists to put the capacity for
independent innovation in the key position for all science and technology
endeavor, have a good grasp of a number of core technologies, own a few
independent property rights and nurture some internationally competitive
companies and trademarks in the next 15 years.
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