Hard tech seen as key to latest innovation By CHENG YU | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-11 09:49 Share Hard technology is key to China s new round of technological innovations, industry experts said.
Hard technology refers to key and core technology that requires long-term research and development and continuous efforts and investment.
It mainly include areas like optoelectronic chips, artificial intelligence, aerospace, biotechnology, information technology, new materials, new energy and smart manufacturing.
Hard technology will determine whether or not China will emerge as a front-runner amid geopolitical uncertainties, they said. China is now at a historical turning point in the transformation of innovations. Creating a sound environment for the development of hard technology and technological entrepreneurship will be the main development theme of the next 30 years, said Mi Lei, founding partner of Casstar, a Xi an, Sha