China’s Party and State Councils Target Breakthroughs in Chips, Machine Tools, Advanced Materials

TREE NEWS update: China’s General Office of the Communist Party Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued a joint opinion on deepening the integration of technological and industrial innovation, calling for decisive breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields including integrated circuits, industrial mother machines, high-end instruments, advanced materials and biomanufacturing. The document urges efforts to raise the self-reliance and controllability of industrial chains through critical technology breakthroughs and to intensify research on basic components, key software, materials and advanced processes.