Tech firms' role in innovation push underlined

Top leadership urges more efforts for greater self-reliance, sci-tech strength

China's drive to achieve greater self-reliance and bolster its strength in science and technology is expected to safeguard industrial and supply chains and foster new growth drivers, according to national legislators, political advisers and experts.

The push to improve self-reliance will boost the country's core competitiveness globally amid external headwinds, they added.

Chinese technology companies should also make greater efforts to achieve breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields by investing more in basic research as well as strategic forward-looking fields.