Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju
said Wednesday that China should enhance the capacity of
independent innovation in its defense industry and defense-related
scientific and technological research.
Addressing the working conference on the industry, science and
technology for national defense, Huang said the defense industry is
of strategic importance.
It is an important sector of the advanced manufacturing industry
and a significant force of the country's scientific and
technological innovation system, he said.
Huang confirmed the new achievements made in the industry, such
as the successful launching of China's second manned spacecraft
Shenzhou-6 and improvements made in state-owned enterprise
reform.
The scientific and technological research of China's defense
industry should stick to the policy of combining peaceful and
wartime needs and integrating military with civilian purposes to
improve industrial structures, said Huang.
High-technology sectors such as information, biology, new
materials, new energy and aviation and spaceflight should be taken
as a new growth sectors, he said.
Huang emphasized that the whole industry should make more
efforts in enhancing its independent innovation capacities,
advancing reforms of state-owned enterprises and improving the
education and training of professional personnel.
(Xinhua News Agency January 5, 2006)