In many ways, China s quest to innovate and develop emerging technologies is not new. In the early 1980s, Jiang Zemin, the future president and then-Minister of the Electronics Ministry, stressed the need for China to catch up with its more advanced counterparts in information technology, which he deemed the strategic high ground in international competition. Major policies since then, such as the National Medium- and Long-Term Program for Science and Technology Development and China s Twelfth and Thirteenth Five-Year Plans have responded to this need to enhance China s technological capabilities. Calls in these plans for promoting indigenous innovation, leapfrogging in priority fields, and developing “strategic emerging industries, among other tasks, reflect some of the main goals outlined in the draft Fourteenth Five-Year Plan.
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‘China’s grain, China’s rice bowl’: Stability to take precedence in national food security strategy and 14th Five-Year Plan By Pearly Neo China has emphasised that stability will be the name of the game in government strategies to ensure national food security and the upcoming Fourteenth Five-Year Plan, with particular emphasis on market stabilisation and grain management.
The country’s Thirteenth Five-Year Plan (2016 to 2020) was very much focused on achieving significant results based on innovation and technology, with fast-paced development a key characteristic, but the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan appears to be much more focused on achieving stability and security compared to before when it comes to food security management.