SHANGHAI: China’s emphasis on developing new quality productive forces and advanced manufacturing by giving a leading role to innovation will enhance the resilience and competitiveness of its industrial and supply chains. It will also inject new impetus into the country’s long-term economic growth, said national legislators and industry experts on Tuesday. The comments came as this year’s Government Work Report stated that China will strive to modernise its industrial system and develop new productive forces faster. “Enterprises are the main force for bolstering technological innovation,” said Jia Shaoqian, a deputy to the 14th National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature. Emerging industries and future-oriented industries, including new-generation information technology and humanoid robots, are the main battlefields for the development of new productive forces, Jia said.
