Vice-Premier Calls for Sci-Tech Reform, Development

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Vice-Premier Calls for Sci-Tech Reform, Development

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Chinese Vice-Premier Li Lanqing here Saturday urged Chinese scientists to push ahead with reforms and development in the science and technology sectors, in order to provide a strong technological base for the country's modernization drive.

Li made the remark while addressing academicians attending separate conferences of China's top two academic bodies -- the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

In his report, the vice-premier stressed the importance of " rejuvenating the nation through science and education," a strategy that has brought marked progress to China's science and technology development since it was introduced in 1995.

To push forward reforms and development in the science and technology sectors, Li said, the two organizations should encourage the making of more innovations in such areas as genome studies, information science, nanotechnology and geoscience.

The vice-premier said that he also expected more breakthroughs in areas of strategic importance. "Priority should be given to the development of key and strategic technologies that can bring major economic and social progress," he said.

Li urged the two research bodies to foster high and new technology industries, and speed up the transformation of their research findings into concrete productive forces. To that effect, he called for a sound capital market to back small- and medium- sized enterprises and private high-tech firms.

Meanwhile, high-level international exchanges, cooperation and due protection of intellectual property rights are particularly important for the country's science and technology development following China's entry into the World Trade Organization, he added.

The five-day conferences ended here today.

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