At the official opening of the Boao Forum for Asia on Thursday, Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang said China's economy was remaking itself with the growing capacity to drive growth through innovation.
Speaking on RTHK's Hong Kong Today programme, China strategist and former senior Hong Kong government official, Andrew Leung, on Friday told Carol Musgrave that Beijing's achievements in science and technology were key to the nation's success and the vice premier's speech aimed to highlight that point.
"As far as innovation is concerned, we are in the fourth and fifth industrial revolutions, with a digital global economy, connectivity, changing the way we conduct our lives, how businesses are conducted and indeed how countries trade and interact with one another, and of course China's technological innovation, particularly self-reliance, was mandated by President Xi [Jinping]."
Leung also said China was overcoming the barriers to trade and technology that the United States was throwing at it.
"China has been progressing by leaps and bounds as illustrated by China's ability to build a space station from scratch... all this shows that innovation is the way to go."
'Innovation the way to go for China'
2025-03-28 HKT 11:53
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Andrew Leung said it wasn't surprising innovation was a core topic at the Boao Forum
