He Lifeng: Deepen Integration of Tech and Industrial Innovation to Drive Sustainable Economic Growth

He Lifeng, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Beijing on November 4-5. He emphasized studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions for Beijing, accelerating high-level technological self-reliance and strength, deepening the integration of technological innovation with industrial innovation, and driving continuous economic development towards new directions and better quality. He visited Huairou, Tongzhou, and other areas in Beijing to inspect relevant scientific infrastructure, intelligent manufacturing, and biopharmaceutical enterprises, understand progress in technology transfer, corporate development, and product exports, hold town meetings to gather grassroots opinions, and strengthen the strategic support of science and technology by highlighting innovation supply and market demand leadership. He called for leveraging government guidance, promoting industry-academia-research integration, serving the construction of a tech innovation center, balancing development and security, increasing financial support for AI and computing power networks, managing innovation risks, expanding new infrastructure investment, developing new quality productive forces tailored to local conditions, nurturing high-end manufacturing and biopharmaceuticals, supporting corporate autonomy and product upgrades, enhancing international competitiveness, and integrating into global markets. He urged timely summary of best practices, addressing grassroots concerns, optimizing policies, tapping domestic demand potential, and advancing high-quality economic development.