Xi Jinping: Persist in Independent Innovation with Chinese Characteristics to Make China a Powerful Nation of Science and Technology

The National Conference on Scientific and Technological Innovation, the Academicians Conference, and the 2nd plenary session of the 9th CAST conference were held in Beijing. President Xi Jinping made an important speech, stressing that at the new historical starting point of China’s development, we should put scientific and technological innovation in a more important position, blowing the trumpet calling for building up a powerful nation of science and technology.