China’s leader, Xi Jinping, said the country faces several shortcomings in its race to become the world’s tech powerhouse, admitting that its innovation is “relatively weak” and that its scientists are overburdened.
Certainly, XI said Tuesday at a National Convention in Beijing that Chinese clinical industries were strong.
But he also highlighted the demanding glaring situations and pressed the country on technological growth, which he said is now the “main battleground of foreign competition. “
“Although the country’s sciences and technological progression have made wonderful progress, its original innovation capabilities are still low,” Xi said.
Xi discussed innovation 55 times in his speech on Tuesday, emphasizing it while discussing synthetic intelligence, quantum technology, biotechnology and new energy.
And China’s technological advances are too scattered between corporations and sectors for XI’s taste. He says they suffer from a “low degree of organization and coordination” that you want to approach.
The key to its impulse for innovation is the concept that China becomes autonomous, an unusual issue in all its ideologies, especially because tensions with the West are being developed.
“The clinical and technological revolution and the struggle between the superpowers are intertwined,” Xi said.
Although he did not call the United States, Xi said it was transparent that China correct how “certain key technologies are controlled through others. “
The observation arises, while the United States has threatened to make larger sanctions to several Chinese corporations related to Huawei and has blocked the sale of complex semiconductors that must have the progression of synthetic intelligence technology.
Last week, the US Treasury Department called China a “country of concern” and proposed new rules to limit international investment in “the next generation of military, intelligence, surveillance or cyber-enabled capabilities that pose national security risks to the United States.”
Xi also said China suffers from a shortage of manpower and top talent in the tech and science spaces. Researchers still complain about “heavy nonacademic burdens” like red tape with publishing papers, busywork in official reports, and asking for resources, he said.
He added that China would have to improve its “incentive systems,” such as offering better awards for science and tech and a more even wage system for employees and researchers.
While the US has been in the middle of its own tech boom, thanks in part to giants like OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft, Business Insider previously reported that bosses in China’s tech sector are upping the pressure on workers following the loss of about $1.3 trillion in market value by the country’s top five tech companies since 2021.
The Chinese government is aimed at the progression of synthetic intelligence technology. BI in the past reported that a Microsoft April report indicated social accounts similar to China’s offer for the media generated through AI to influence elections in the United States.
With all that was said on Tuesday, it’s clear Xi wants China to not just be a major player in the tech space — he wants the country to dominate it.
“We must bolster our sense of urgency. We must go further with our efforts to innovate,” Xi said. “To occupy the commanding heights of science and tech competition and future development.”
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