The Communist Party of China (CPC) calls for stepping up
development of the manufacturing industry, saying the role of the
industry in supporting national economic growth should be brought
into full play.
The proposal of the CPC Central Committee for formulating the
2006-2010 national program for social and economic development,
released Tuesday, says new and high technologies should be widely
used to develop China's name brands with proprietary intellectual
property rights in the coming five years.
It suggests policy support to boost localization of major
technological equipment, especially breakthroughs in high-efficient
and clean power generating units and transmission equipment, large
petrochemical installations, advanced transportation equipment,
high-grade numerical-control machine tools, equipment for automatic
control and integrated circuits, and advanced power devices.
Efforts should be made to vigorously develop information,
biology, new materials, new energy and aerospace industries to
cultivate more new growth points, the proposal says.
As for the information industry, emphasis should be placed on
developing integrated circuits, software, new-generation mobile
telecommunications, high performance computers and network
equipment, while boosting the development and sharing of
information resources and popularizing information technology.
To promote the biological industry, the proposal suggests
efforts to take advantage of the country's resources and
technologies to make new breakthroughs in the fields of health
care, agriculture, environmental protection, energy resources and
materials.
The proposal also stresses the development of the defense
industry in a view to fostering a coordinated mechanism under which
high technologies for national defense can be used for civilian
purposes or the other way round.
(Xinhua News Agency October 17, 2005)