Liaoning will commit more efforts to technological innovation
and the development of advanced technologies to improve its
reform of the SOEs and enhance its position in global competition
during the next century.
"We should
vigorously push forward the development and application of
high and new technologies, which are crucial to China's modernization
drive and future prosperity," Wen Shizhen, provincial
secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, said on Oct.12.
He made the remarks
on the last day of the three-day provincial conference on
technological innovation, which was presided over by Vice-Governor
Chen Zhenggao.
Solid efforts should
be made to gear up technological research and development,
so Liaoning, the oldest and largest industrial center of China,
will be able to build on its past brilliant achievements,
Wen stressed.
According to the
blueprint, scientific development for the 10th Five-Year Plan
(2001 _ 2005) will focus more on nurturing high-tech industries
and increasing agricultural production through advanced technology.
By the end of 2005,
the comprehensive strength of Liaoning's industrial technology
will have caught up with the world's technological level in
the 1990s, he said.
The output value
of the high-tech industry should cover more than 20 percent
of the industrial sector.
In regard to agriculture,
strategies will be geared towards accelerating the transition
from a traditional labor-intensive mode to modern technology-based
production.
"We should
guarantee the development of the technology sector increases
with a speed of over 20 percent annually, " Wen said.
"If not, we won't be able to greet the first days of
the new century with an impressive social and economic advances."
However, he indicated
Liaoning is far behind those advanced coastal provinces and
municipalities, such as Jiangsu, Guangdong and Shanghai in
terms of technological innovation.
In 1998, the general
output value of the sector was only 68 billion yuan (US$8.2
billion), with only 1,447 enterprises operating in the sector.
The situation is
not suitable for such a big industrial province, Wen said.
To upgrade traditional
industry through high technology, scientific administrations
across the province should help distribute computer-aided,
energy-saving and cleaner production technologies among the
industrial sector, said Wen.
(China Daily 10/13/1999)
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