Xinhua
29 May 2020, 10:00 GMT+10
Workers operate machines at a plant of Heilongjiang Huafeng Huilong Cable Group Co., Ltd. in the Mudanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone in Mudanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, May 19, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)
BEIJING, May 29 (Xinhua) -- President Xi Jinping on Friday encouraged scientific and technological workers across China to make new and greater contributions to building China into a global power in science and technology.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in replying to a letter by 25 representatives of scientific and technological workers. He also called for efforts to achieve breakthroughs in key and core technologies. ■
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