Xi Tells Nation to Mobilize for ‘Core Technology’ Breakthrough

President Xi Jinping urged China to mobilize nationwide resources to advance research in cutting-edge technologies and cultivate competitive advantages in key fields, in a renewed call for tech self-reliance amid growing tensions between Beijing and Washington.

Xi stressed the need to improve collaborative efforts between government, market and society to achieve breakthroughs in core technologies while strengthening China’s sci-tech power, during a high-level central committee meeting on Tuesday.