Throughout China\u2019s annual legislative meeting, the national leader Xi Jinping made clear that he wants nothing to hold back his plans for China to march past its rivals by becoming a technological superpower. Not the economic slowdown or heavy local government debt, nor a trade war with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The meeting in Beijing, called the National People\u2019s Congress, was once a stage for Communist Party leaders to make a show of public consultation. Congress delegates, although handpicked by the party, sometimes chided officials<\/a> over problems like pollution. There were even rare flashes of discord among senior officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Xi, though, has turned the meeting into a meticulously orchestrated, weeklong salute to himself and his vision. This time, he urged China to forge ahead in advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, biotechnology and new weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cXi has seen how decades of investment into science by the U.S. government after World War II was a knockout success for the United States, and wants to replicate that,\u201d said Jimmy Goodrich<\/a>, who studies China\u2019s science policies as a senior adviser at RAND Corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> What Slowdown? Xi Says China Must Win the Global Tech Race
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