China sees fruitful sci-tech innovation achievements in 2021-2025: CPPCC member

China noticed fruitful scientific and technological innovation achievements through the 14th Five-Year Plan interval (2020-2025) for nationwide socioeconomic growth, successfully supporting the nation’s high-quality growth, stated Wang Zhenzhang, former Chinese Minister of Science and Technology, on Saturday.

Wang, additionally a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China’s prime political advisory physique, made the assertion at a gaggle interview on the sidelines of the continuing 4th annual session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee in Beijing, the place he elaborated on China’s sci-tech innovation achievements in the 2021-2025 interval.

“During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China’s sci-tech innovation yielded a large number of outstanding achievements. For example, in that period of time, China’s high-speed train met the target of running at a maximum speed of 450 kilometers per hour, making people’s travel faster and more convenient. Additionally, in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), embodied intelligence and multimodal AI assistants, there have been many highlights,” Wang stated.

In the sector of quantum expertise, China has achieved a sequence of recent breakthroughs in quantum communication, quantum computing, and quantum measurement, whereas earlier sci-tech improvements in the sector of recent power have been reworked into rising and main industries, he stated.

During 2021-2025 interval, the variety of researchers in China saved increasing, with enhancing skilled capabilities. In addition to successfully addressing scientific questions and overcoming technical challenges, in addition they succeeding in exactly greedy the route and priorities of the sci-tech frontiers, he stated.

He particularly outlined the position that China’s sci-tech enterprises performed in this course.

“During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China’s sci-tech enterprises strengthened their capabilities in technological innovation and results application. In that period of time, they also emerged as a powerful new force in basic research,” Wang stated.

In these 5 years, China additionally made important progress in analysis and growth funding and enchancment of the analysis ecosystem. This contains substantial developments in insurance policies and legal guidelines associated to this sector, as nicely social consensus on constructing sci-tech power, he stated.

“In the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), or in a future period of time, achieving greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology remains a top priority in our efforts for realizing [Chinese] modernization. At the same time, we need to enhance opening up and cooperation in science and technology, seeking high-quality development through science and technology, generate new quality productive forces through science and technology, and pursue sustainable development and competitiveness through technological achievements,” Wang stated.

The 4th annual session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee opened in Beijing on Wednesday and can run by way of March 11.

Domestic journey in China hit document highs each in 2025 and through the 2026 Spring Festival vacation, Minister of Culture and Tourism Sun Yeli stated on Saturday.

The minister made the assertion in briefing information media on China’s journey growth in the previous 12 months and this 12 months’s Spring Festival vacation operating from Feb 15 to 23, at a press convention on folks’s livelihood on the sidelines of the fourth annual session of the 14th National People’s Congress.

“This year’s Spring Festival holiday saw a surge in China’s culture and tourism market. During the nine-day holiday, the country recorded 596 million domestic tourist trips, with tourism spending surpassing 800 billion yuan (about 115.93 billion U.S. dollars), both setting new records,” Sun stated.

The journey surge through the Spring Festival vacation season was merely a snapshot, the minister stated, including that the previous 12 months witnessed thriving momentum throughout the tradition and tourism sectors.

“Data show that the business revenue of enterprises above the designated size (those each with an annual revenue of 20 million yuan or more) in culture and related industries hit 15 trillion yuan in 2025, up 7.4 percent year on year, while their total profits reached 1.4 trillion yuan, up 6.5 percent year on year. In terms of tourism, domestic tourist trips by Chinese residents exceeded 6.5 billion, up more than 16 percent year on year, with tourism expenditure reaching 6.3 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.5 percent — setting new records in both the volume and spending,” Sun stated.

The annual session of the 14th National People’s Congress, China’s prime legislature, opened on Thursday and is scheduled to run until March 12.