SHANGHAI, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing has stressed the need to steadily advance the deep integration of technological and industrial innovation and to continuously enhance industrial innovation capabilities to better support high-quality economic development.
Zhang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks during an inspection tour in Shanghai, east China, on Monday and Tuesday.
During the tour, Zhang visited instrumentation and medical equipment enterprises and learned about their operations.
He emphasized the need to better align high-quality sci-tech supply with industrial demand and to use high-end, green and intelligent industrial needs to guide sci-tech innovation, so that innovation outcomes are translated into real productivity faster.
He also called for stronger basic research and breakthroughs in advanced basic processes, key basic materials and basic components, better mechanisms for translating research into application and related services, and a sound innovation ecosystem in which enterprises of all sizes and along industrial chains collaborate.
Noting that traditional industries remain a foundation for economic growth and employment, Zhang stressed advancing the application of advanced technologies to empower traditional industries and promote their high-quality development.
During discussions with grassroots officials and enterprise representatives, Zhang called for creating new consumption scenarios, improving the consumption environment and expanding quality products and services to promote consumption upgrading.
He urged better combining investment in physical facilities with institutional and service improvements, stepping up project planning and preparation, and advancing major projects suited to local conditions.
Zhang also called for further advancing the development of a unified national market and intensifying efforts to curb "involution-style" competition, so as to foster a fair and orderly market environment. ■
