China will use high technologies to upgrade traditional export industries and products and readjust the export structure, seeking to increase exports of high and new technological products, a Chinese senior foreign trade official said in Kunming Tuesday.
Xu Fuxing, chief of the science and technologies bureau under the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC), made the remark at an ongoing training course here on boosting foreign trade through a hi-tech strategy, sponsored by MOFTEC, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's scientific department.
The relevant central government's departments will cooperate to promote the strategy in 20 key cities, 53 new and hi-tech zones, four new and hi-tech fairs and 100 new and hi-tech enterprises across the country, sources said.
China will organize domestic enterprises to take part in a hi- tech fair in Las Vegas, the United States this November and other hi-tech fairs worldwide, according to the sources.
(Xinhua 04/23/2001)
