**Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 17th ——** Self-reliance and Strength in Science and Technology: Setting a New Beacon for China's Future Development —— Looking at the Prospects of Innovation from the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee

**By Xinhua Reporters Dong Ruifeng and Wen Jinghua**

A batch of national major scientific and technological projects with foresight and strategic significance are being laid out, such as artificial intelligence, quantum information, brain science, deep earth and deep sea exploration, etc.

Looking ahead to the next 5 to 15 years, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee proposed that innovation should be at the core of the overall modernization of the country, and that self-reliance and strength in science and technology should be the strategic support for national development.

How to tackle key core technologies?

Silicon carbide, as an advanced third-generation semiconductor material, is a core material in important fields such as satellite communication, high-voltage power transmission and transformation, and electric vehicles. However, the preparation of silicon carbide single crystals has always been a global challenge.

This year, China Electronics Technology Group has broken through a series of key technologies such as process optimization, model building, and circuit design of ultra-wideband microwave millimeter-wave chips, and realized the independent supply of silicon carbide materials.

Chen Zhaoxiong, chairman of China Electronics Technology Group, said that standing at a new historical starting point, China Electronics Technology Group will adhere to the core position of innovation in enterprise development, fulfill the mission of central enterprises as the "national team" and "pillar", focus on the actual needs of the country, and spare no effort to win the battle of key core technologies to support the self-reliance and strength of national science and technology.

Strengthening the national strategic scientific and technological forces, enhancing the technological innovation capabilities of enterprises, stimulating the innovative vitality of talents, and improving the system and mechanism of scientific and technological innovation... The Fifth Plenary Session has made systematic arrangements for how China's innovation can break through.

Using laser as a "knife" to "carve" specific materials with precision —— photonic manufacturing technology can be used in the development of a series of high-end equipment and is regarded as a "secret manual" by some developed countries.

Zhongke Weijing, a science and technology innovation enterprise incubated by the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has broken through the bottleneck of efficient and ultra-fine manufacturing of the new generation of aero-engine blades with the help of deep integration of industry, academia, and research, and promoted it to the field of electronic equipment manufacturing.

Xie Xiaoping, deputy director of the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, said that the research team has "spent ten years on a sword", improved the performance of ultrafast lasers and ultrafast laser micro-processing equipment through independent research and development, and made due contributions to serving the major strategic needs of the country.

Where does the driving force for high-quality development come from?

One day in October 2020, 3,000 employees of Innovent Biologics received an email from the founder, Dr. Yu Dechao: The monoclonal antibody drug Dabohua for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was approved for marketing!

Founded for 9 years, 4 biological new drugs have been launched, and one of the anti-cancer drugs has entered the 2019 version of the national medical insurance catalog as the only PD-1 inhibitor. Represented by Innovent Biologics, domestic biological drugs are welcoming an innovation boom, allowing Chinese people to use life-saving drugs at more favorable prices and enabling "Made in China" to begin crossing the "moat" of international pharmaceutical giants.

The innovation capability index ranks in the top 15 in the world, and the contribution rate of scientific and technological progress is expected to achieve the target of 60% this year... The driving force of the "Chinese ship" is switching to the innovation engine. However, compared with the requirements of high-quality development, the innovation capability still needs to be further improved.

Tangshan, Hebei, an intelligent satellite factory officially started. The satellite R&D and manufacturing base invested and built by Jiutian Weixing introduced intelligent and pulsating industrial production lines to mass-produce small satellites, which will continuously provide "raw materials" for the "new infrastructure" project of satellite Internet.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the 2020 China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition National Finals, 34 enterprise representatives carried their respective "trump cards" to compete. The competition has been held for nine sessions, focusing on major innovation needs of the industry, and strives to inject new momentum into the high-quality development of the regional economy.

The new development concept needs to be implemented, and it is urgent to increase the supply of independent scientific and technological innovation. Transfer and transform the major scientific and technological achievements accumulated by scientific research institutes, and promote and expand them —— the "Hongguang Special Project" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has cultivated more than 20 demonstration projects with significant economic and social benefits over the years.

Wen Ya, director of the Bureau of Science and Technology for Development of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that the next step will focus on the needs of the development of strategic emerging industries and the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, focusing on key core technologies involving the constraints of national economic security, continue to help scientific research achievements develop from "technological advantages" to "market advantages", and cultivate new industries and new forms of business.

How to support the new development pattern?

Shanghai, the third China International Import Expo.

A domestic cardiovascular OCT (optical coherence tomography) device that helps doctors interpret images of plaques, thrombi, etc., will "go abroad by ship." The science and technology innovation enterprise, MicroLight Medical, has reached an agreement with the internationally renowned medical device company Boston Scientific, which will be responsible for promoting it to the domestic and international markets.

Demand drives supply, and supply creates demand, forming a higher-level dynamic balance. Building a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the dual promotion of domestic and international cycles, independent scientific and technological innovation is an important fulcrum.

The huge domestic market is becoming a giant incubator for independent innovation; innovation breakthroughs enable China to possibly obtain the entry ticket for the new round of industrial changes first.

As of November 4, 191 companies have landed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, with a total market value of more than 3 trillion yuan. Since its birth two years ago, the Science and Technology Innovation Board has been "green-lighting" science and technology innovation enterprises, promoting economic transformation and upgrading, and the temperature of the Science and Technology Innovation Board is being transformed into the speed of innovation-driven development.

Milei, a founding partner of Zhongke Innovation Star, said that at the historical convergence of the world's new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change and China's transformation of development mode, with the "favorable wind" of the new development pattern, providing support and help for "hard technology" will help us seize opportunities, open new situations, and better achieve overtaking on a curve.

The wave of innovation surges forward.

Standing at a new historical starting point, facing the once-in-a-century major changes and the development needs of China's "14th Five-Year Plan" period and beyond, China's self-reliance and strength in science and technology will write a glorious answer to the times.

Original link: http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2020-11/18/c_1126752285.htm