President encourages businesses to innovate

President Xi Jinping said on Monday that innovation is the core of the manufacturing industry and is critical for developing the real economy, and he encouraged enterprises to be ambitious in making independent innovations.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remark when visiting Gree Electric Appliances Inc in Zhuhai, Guangdong province.

For manufacturers, innovation entails mastering key and core technologies through selfreliance as well as independent innovation, Xi said, urging all enterprises to work toward this end.