Chinese President Hu Jintao made clear in Beijing Monday the
major tasks of the ongoing Fourth National Conference on Science
and Technology.
Addressing the opening ceremony of the conference, Hu Jintao said:
"the main tasks for this conference is to analyze the situation,
reach common understanding, summarize experiences, make clear the
development tasks and deploy the implementation of the country's
middle-and-long-term program for science and technology development
from 2006 to 2020."
The conference, which is also the country's first of such type in
the 21st century, will also serve to mobilize the whole country and
the Communist Party of China (CPC) to go unswervingly along the
path of innovation with Chinese characteristics, work to build
China into an innovation-oriented country so as to create a new
situation in building a well-off society in an all-round way and
accelerating the socialist modernization process.
Hu, on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council,
also paid tribute to the science and technology workers'
outstanding contributions to the development of China's science and
technology undertakings.
"We must hold fast the opportunities and face up to various
challenges to push forward the country's socialist cause with
Chinese characteristics," Hu said.
According to Hu, China will implement the strategy of rejuvenating
China with science, education and human sources and give further
play the science and technology development and innovation so as to
shift the country's social and economic development into the path
of coordinately sustainable development with people first.
"We must really and truly put the science and technology at the
strategic position of priority development to echo the increasingly
tense competition on the world arena," said Hu.
Only in this way can China grasp opportunities of vital importance
and therefore win initiative in its development, he said.
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