Experts, tech giants stress innovation efforts

Leading experts and tech giants have taken a cue from President Xi Jinping's speech on China's reform and opening-up and reiterated their commitment to spur innovation through technology advances.

Pony Ma, chairman and CEO of Tencent Holdings Ltd, said Tencent will seek to play a pivotal role in science and technology innovation in the real economy, traditional industries as well as the digital economy.

"As an internet technology company, we will focus on scientific and high-quality development, embrace the industrial internet and ramp up efforts to promote the use of applications like WeChat, QQ and mobile payments," he said.