Innovation key driver of country's sustained high-quality development

With a new round of technological revolution gathering pace and heralding seismic global transformations, it is imperative that China harness its science and technology forces to foster innovations.

President Xi Jinping has stressed the importance of the development of the country's science and technology sector on many occasions, saying that innovation has always been the primary driver of the country's development. This has been verified by what China has achieved over the past more than four decades.

Given the situation that the United States is trying to block the exports of advanced technologies and products to China to contain the country's rise, the country now needs to place even greater reliance on its own science and technology strengths.