Xi Jinping again urges China to home-grow more ‘core’ tech, faster
(2020/08/25)
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Chinese president Xi Jinping has again urged the nation to develop more the technology it needs to develop its economy.
In a Monday [1]speech to a social and economic conference in Beijing, Xi called for China to “vigorously improve our independent innovation capabilities and make breakthroughs in key core technologies as soon as possible.”
Xi has said similar things for years, but never quite made a definitive statement on what is considered core technology. The term is generally accepted to encompass semiconductors, cloud-scale hardware and software stacks, AI, and quantum communications.
In this speech Xi said accelerating domestic innovation “is a major issue related to the overall situation of my country's development, and it is also the key to forming a major domestic cycle.”
That domestic cycle is important because Xi mentioned that china’s middle class now numbers 400 million people, sufficient for local demand to ensure growth. However he also called for “domestic and international dual cycles promote each other”.
The president also called for ongoing international collaboration, including with US private enterprise.
Internal reform that ensures Chinese businesses can both drive innovation and take advantage of it was another focus of the speech.
The speech was made against the background of trade tensions between China and much of the world. State-owned organ China Daily characterised one such skirmish - [2]TikTok suing to avoid a US ban - as “gunboat diplomacy”. ®
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[1] http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2020-08/25/content_5537101.htm
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/24/tiktok_to_sue_usa/
[3] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
In a Monday [1]speech to a social and economic conference in Beijing, Xi called for China to “vigorously improve our independent innovation capabilities and make breakthroughs in key core technologies as soon as possible.”
Xi has said similar things for years, but never quite made a definitive statement on what is considered core technology. The term is generally accepted to encompass semiconductors, cloud-scale hardware and software stacks, AI, and quantum communications.
In this speech Xi said accelerating domestic innovation “is a major issue related to the overall situation of my country's development, and it is also the key to forming a major domestic cycle.”
That domestic cycle is important because Xi mentioned that china’s middle class now numbers 400 million people, sufficient for local demand to ensure growth. However he also called for “domestic and international dual cycles promote each other”.
The president also called for ongoing international collaboration, including with US private enterprise.
Internal reform that ensures Chinese businesses can both drive innovation and take advantage of it was another focus of the speech.
The speech was made against the background of trade tensions between China and much of the world. State-owned organ China Daily characterised one such skirmish - [2]TikTok suing to avoid a US ban - as “gunboat diplomacy”. ®
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[1] http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2020-08/25/content_5537101.htm
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/24/tiktok_to_sue_usa/
[3] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
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Any simple lead in any one of those core technology fields has one creating the possibility of being overwhelmingly influential and inordinately powerful. That's bound to be extremely attractive to some, who may be also be many, and much more than just a chosen few.
Methinks that has one skirting around quantum communications fields given the nature of the [1]Qubit and the then fact rather than fiction that a this can be a that and together something else too superpositioning which be fundamentally different and classically imposing ...... and quite naturally most probably also capable of being an almighty disruptive and creatively destructive development in a brave new world field. And that makes such an internetworking thing, immeasurably valuable and cheap at whatever cost imagined and price gladly paid.
But quite normal for these strange times and spaces in which we are all living nowadays with Odays and RATs practically and virtually everywhere one cares to turn. 'Tis just the simple nature of the complex beast.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit