China to Offer More Support for National High-tech Development ProgramPremier Zhu Rongji said in Beijing Thursday that the Chinese government will increase support for the national high-tech research and development program by a considerable amount.Speaking at the 8th meeting of the Science and Technology Leading Group of the State Council, the premier said that the national high-tech development program should focus on innovation, in a bid to solve high-tech problems concerning the country's medium and long term development and national security. China is to push ahead industrialization of high-tech discoveries and upgrade traditional industrial ventures with high and new technology, he said. Zhu Rongji said that the technological innovation program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) should focus on basic scientific research, technological innovation and industrialization of scientific discoveries. The CAS should speed up reform for achieving the goals. The premier also urged the Chinese Academy of Engineering to play a more important role in offering advices on economic construction to policy-makers at various levels. |
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