President Hu Jintao
outlined major strategic tasks for building an innovation-oriented
country at a national conference on science and technology that
opened?in Beijing?Monday morning.
Hu said China will embark on a new path of innovation with
Chinese characteristics, the core of which is to adhere to
innovation, seek leapfrog development in key areas, make
breakthroughs in key technologies and common technologies to meet
urgent requirements in realizing sustained and coordinated economic
and social development and make arrangements for frontier
technologies and basic research with a long-term perspective.
Raising innovation capability should be given prominence to and
the nation's competitiveness should be enhanced broadly, said
Hu.
Innovation is the core of the nation's competitiveness and the
strategic motif of China's future science and technological
development. The practice of the world's science and technological
development shows that only with strong innovation ability, can a
country win the initiative in the international competition, said
Hu.
The real core technologies cannot be purchased but can only be
achieved by innovation, which should be given priority in the whole
science and technological work, he said.
Raising the capability of innovation must center on serving the
economic and social development and try best to tackle major issues
in the field which hamper the economic and social development, said
Hu.
Technologies of energy resources, water resources and
environment protection should be developed as priorities. Grasping
the intellectual property rights of key techniques in equipment
manufacturing and information industries should be regarded as
breakthrough points in raising competitiveness, said the
president.
Boosting manufacturing and information industries, raising
agricultural production capability, making breakthroughs in energy
exploration, technologies of energy-saving and clean energy
resources and optimizing energy structure should be goals to
achieve in the science and technological development, he said.
The goals also include developing recycling economy, making
breakthroughs in pharmacy and key medical equipment, developing
technologies for national defense, and building up advanced
scientist groups, research institutions and enterprises, Hu
said.
To encourage the innovation of the entire society and turn the
scientific and technological achievements into productive forces
are important tasks of building up an innovation-oriented country,
Hu said.
"The government would play a leading role in the scientific and
technological innovation, while the basic role of market will be
given a full play in the scientific and technological resources
allocation," he said.
"Companies would play a principal part in the innovation, while
research institutes and universities across the country would
assume a key and leading role in the innovation," he said.
(Xinhua News Agency January 9, 2006)