Xi'an, home to the underground army of Terracotta Warriors, is now determined to sharpen its tech edge by constructing a national science center, Li Mingyuan, the city's mayor, said.
The capital of Shaanxi province hopes to construct a comprehensive center to drive innovation in China's northwestern region, promote technological and economic growth and better support the country's objective of high-quality development, said Li, who is also a deputy to the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature.
"The center-which aims to help solve major scientific problems and break bottlenecks in cutting-edge technologies-will play an important role in improving China's global competitiveness in the sci-tech sector," he said.