US tech war: China’s Xi Jinping urges ‘solid path of innovation’ as he tours semiconductor firms
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President Xi Jinping called on Chinese firms to follow a “practical and solid path of innovation”, as he carried out an inspection tour of semiconductor and hi-tech companies in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu.
“With the rapid development of information technology, disruptive technologies can emerge at any time,” Xi said. “It is necessary to pursue a practical and solid path of innovation in order to make significant contributions to achieving high-level self-reliance in science and technology.”
Xi spent Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning in the city of Suzhou, home to hundreds of companies that are part of the semiconductor supply chain.
His aim was to “understand the construction and development of hi-tech industrial parks and enterprise technological innovation,” state media reports said.