High-tech sectors to grow amid trade conflict with Washington

China will resolutely follow the path of innovation-driven development and strengthen its own high-tech industries regardless of the increasingly complex and unpredictable international situations, a senior official said.

On Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump suggested that he might ease up on his demands for new restrictions on Chinese investment in US industrial sectors and rely instead on the established Committee on Foreign Investment in the US to screen such investments, according to US media reports.

Regardless of the changing situation, China's National High-Tech Industrial Development Zones will continue to improve their innovation capability in advanced scientific fields, said Zhang Zhihong, director of the Torch High Technology Industry Development Center in Beijing. The center is under the Ministry of Science and Technology.