Breakthroughs in core technologies called imperative

President Xi Jinping called on Friday for improving the nation's innovation capability in core technologies of key sectors to support the nation's development.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remark in Beijing while presiding over the second meeting of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, of which he is director.

Key and core technologies in crucial sectors are pillars of the country and are important to pushing for the nation's high-quality development and safeguarding state security, said Xi.