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innovation centers, engineering research centers, and enterprise technology centers.
We will accelerate the advancement of major projects for the Sci-Tech Innovation

2030 Agenda and launch a number of major national science and technology
projects that are of strategic, overarching, and long-term importance in key fields.
Focusing on manufacturing and other key industrial chains, we will pool the best
resources to make breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields and advance
the iterative application of independently-innovated products and

independently-developed open source technologies.
We will strengthen the principal role of enterprises in innovation, promote
closer enterprise-led collaboration between industries, universities, and research
institutes, and boost industrial applications of scientific and technological advances.

We will create an enabling environment for the growth of high-tech MSMEs,
support high-tech and innovative MSMEs to participate in the building of national
innovation platforms, and encourage more competitive enterprises to list on the
Science and Technology Innovation Board. We will boost regional innovation
capacity and foster a culture of innovation. We will deepen reform of the science

and technology management system as well as the appraisal system for scientific
and technological advances, and we will increase investment in science and
technology through diverse channels. We will raise China’s ability in every respect
to create, apply, protect, and serve intellectual property rights. We will make

extensive efforts to help people learn more about science and improve the whole
nation’s science literacy.
2) We will move faster to optimize and upgrade the industrial structure.
We will revise the catalog for guiding industry restructuring and release the
2023 edition. We will carry out industrial foundation reengineering projects and

research projects on major technologies and equipment, accelerate the digital
transformations of traditional industries and SMEs, promote the application of
advanced, practical technologies, and move the manufacturing sector toward
higher-end, smarter, and greener production. We will carry out green

manufacturing initiatives and continue to advance energy conservation and carbon
reduction in key industrial fields. We will pay close attention to the transformation
and upgrading of traditional industries and improve the permanent mechanism
for easing overcapacity through lawful and market-based means. We will speed up
the association and reorganization of enterprises in steel and other key industries

and advance enterprises’ technological transformations and equipment upgrades.

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