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    On Top of the Agenda

    Nov 19, 2020 4 minutes
     By Sui Jigang

    The author is a researcher with the Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences

    The Party leadership’s proposals for formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) as well as the long-term objectives through 2035 adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee in October underline the need to give priority to innovation in China’s modernization drive. The document also called for achieving self-independence and making China more competitive in science and technology.

    This marks the first time the CPC put innovation at the top of the agenda during the formulation of five-year plans.

    Self-reliance and independent innovation have long been the focus for

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