The China Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision News (the official paper of the CDIC)
published (October 5) a feature interview on technological self-reliance authored jointly by Mu
Rongping, Director of the Innovation and Development Research Centre of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences (CASS); Xing Huaibin, Deputy Director of the Strategic Planning
Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology; and Pan Jianwei, CASS & Vice
President of the Science and Technology University. The article asserted "The ten years since
the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China have been the decade in which
my country has made the greatest progress in science and technology and its strength has risen the fastest". Ma Rongping said, "Now that my country has become the world's second largest
economy, and its R&D investment is also at the forefront of the world, we have the basic
conditions for building a powerful country in science and technology." In addition to
emphasising self-reliance in S&T, Xing Huabin stressed the importance of putting
"technological innovation at the core of development". They stressed "Now that we are
building a new development pattern, the most critical condition is that our industrial chain and
supply chain must be safe. Mastering key core technologies is a basic support and basic
condition for the security of our industrial chain and supply chain. In this sense, mastering key
core technologies is not only because of the current foreign blockade, but also from the
perspective of our own long-term sustainable development, we must also firmly grasp key core
technologies in our own hands." Xing Huaibin said "Compared with the last time, there are two
very important changes this time. One is that the international situation we are facing has
undergone important changes, and the other is that the issues of development and security have
become more and more prominent. We must coordinate development and security". He
disclosed that China "has planned to build more than 70 major scientific and technological
infrastructures, and more than 30 have been put into operation"
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