Core technologies to better drive digital shift

More efforts are needed to make breakthroughs in core technologies, advance information infrastructure construction and provide further impetus to the digital transformation of industries, said a senior official at the Second Digital China Summit, which opened in Fuzhou, Fujian province, on Monday.

Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, called for more work to accelerate the research and development of 5G, as well as promote the building and application of the Beidou Navigation Satellite System.

Huang said achieving breakthroughs in core technologies should be the top priority, with innovation fully pursued and intellectual property rights better protected.