Xian to become global center for cutting-edge technology
November 14, 2017 Category China News Round-up, Weekly
Xian, capital of Shaanxi province, aims to become a global center for cutting-edge technology by 2025. “Xian will become the world’s capital in the hard sciences and core scientific fields, and become a model city for cutting-edge innovation, applications and trade by 2025,” Wang Yongkang, Communist Party Secretary of Xian, said at the opening of the Global Hard and Core Technology Innovation Conference in the city. Hard and core sciences are “fields that are more advanced and influential than high-tech”, Wang said. These areas of the natural sciences “have extremely high thresholds of entry, are nearly impossible to duplicate and require decades of rigorous research and huge investments from the nation”.
Such fields include smart manufacturing, new energy, new materials, photonic and computer science, space technology, biotechnology and artificial intelligence. Xian is fully capable of becoming a global model city in innovation and manufacturing, said Zhang Daohong, Vice Governor of Shaanxi. The province already excels in space technology, advanced electronics manufacturing, clean energy and new materials, he said. In 2016, Xian’s industrial output reached CNY118 billion, a 10% year-on-year increase. Xian also invested more than CNY30 billion in research and development (R&D) in 2015, he said. “We are confident that hard and core technologies will become the new calling card for Xian,” Zhang said. Meanwhile, Xian, which is the starting point of the land route of the Belt and Road Initiative, “will be a crucial science and innovation hub to serve the initiative”, he said, as reported by the China Daily.
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