BEIJING, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) — China will proceed selling the development of recent high quality productive forces through sci-tech innovation, boosting the mixing of sci-tech innovation and industrial innovation, and injecting sturdy momentum into high-quality development, China’s Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun stated at a State Council Information Office press convention on Thursday.
Yin stated that in the course of the 14th Five-Year Plan interval (2021-2025), China’s sci-tech innovation and industrial innovation have been more and more built-in, main to the fast development of recent high quality productive forces.
The value-added output of large-scale high-tech manufacturing enterprises — every with an annual main-business turnover of not less than 20 million yuan (about 2.8 million U.S. {dollars}) — is up 42 p.c in contrast to the tip of the thirteenth Five-Year Plan interval (2016-2020), in accordance to Yin.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan interval, the innovation capabilities of enterprises have improved considerably. In 2024, 524 Chinese mainland enterprises had been listed among the many world’s prime 2,000 industrial enterprises when it comes to R&D funding, accounting for 26.2 p.c of the whole, which was a rise of 4.8 proportion factors from 2020.
Yin confused that innovation in fields corresponding to AI, the Internet of Things and large information has enabled conventional industries to turn out to be high-end, clever and inexperienced. Innovation in sectors corresponding to new-generation info know-how and new power has additionally aided the development and progress of rising industries.
China has repeatedly damaged its personal world data for photovoltaic crystalline silicon cell effectivity and single-unit offshore wind turbine capability.
According to official information, the world’s highest-capacity offshore wind turbine is at present the 26-megawatt unit that was put in off the coast of east China’s Shandong Province in late August. With a mean annual wind velocity of 10 meters per second, a single unit can generate 100 million kilowatt-hours of unpolluted electrical energy yearly.
The nation’s new-energy know-how patents now account for over 40 p.c of the worldwide complete. In the primary half of 2025, the rise in electrical energy generated by wind and solar energy in China exceeded the expansion of the nation’s complete electrical energy consumption.
Yin additionally famous that cutting-edge applied sciences corresponding to AI and brain-computer interface gadgets have laid the foundations for the expansion of future industries. China has, for instance, developed various normal massive language fashions which have reached an internationally superior degree, creating greater than 100 software situations.
In one other instance, China’s know-how breakthroughs have accelerated the applying of humanoid robots in vehicle manufacturing, logistics dealing with and energy inspection situations, amongst others, laying a strong basis for the development of this trillion-yuan-scale future trade, he added. ■