In an article printed by Nova Makedonija on 7 February, H.E. Mme. Ambassador Jiang Xiaoyan elaborated on how China’s scientific innovation empowers improvement and envisions future cooperation alternatives with North Macedonia. The full textual content is as follows:
In his 2026 New Year message, President Xi Jinping outlined a grand imaginative and prescient for constructing China into a number one scientific and technological energy, noting that innovation has grow to be a key driver of high-quality improvement and has propelled China into the ranks of the world’s fastest-rising innovation-driven economies.
One of the most vital experiences behind China’s transition in science and expertise from a follower to a peer—and more and more a pacesetter—lies in incorporating scientific and technological improvement into nationwide methods and formulating and implementing successive Five-Year Plans in a well-coordinated method. Since 1953, China has formulated and applied fourteen Five-Year Plans, which have helped forge improvement consensus, set strategic path, optimize useful resource allocation, and supply sturdy steerage and institutional help for scientific and technological progress. From the name to “march toward science” to the recognition that “science and technology constitute the primary productive force,” from the technique of rejuvenating the nation by science and schooling to constructing an innovation-driven nation and implementing the innovation-driven improvement technique, from the high-tech breakthroughs beneath the National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program) throughout the seventh Five-Year Plan interval to the emphasis on scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening in the 14th Five-Year Plan, China’s imaginative and prescient for science and expertise has been steadily translated into concrete motion.
Over the previous 5 years, China’s general scientific and technological power has continued to develop, laying an more and more stable basis for turning into a science and expertise powerhouse. According to the newly launched Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders rating, China stays the world’s main nation in high-quality analysis output and continues to widen its lead. China has risen to tenth place globally in the Global Innovation Index, whereas the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou innovation cluster now ranks first amongst all international innovation clusters. China has ranked first in the world for 5 consecutive years in each the quantity of papers printed in high-level worldwide journals and worldwide patent functions. The quantity of high-tech enterprises has exceeded 500,000. In the 2024 Nature Index-Science Cities rating launched final November, six Chinese cities entered the international prime ten.
Over the previous 5 years, China has achieved frequent breakthroughs in key technological fields, with new high quality productive forces gaining sturdy momentum. The Tiangong area station has entered common operation; Chang’e-6 efficiently accomplished the first-ever lunar far-side pattern return; Haidou-1 accomplished deep-sea trials at depths of 10,000 meters; 5G has achieved large-scale industrial utility; the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System now gives international precision companies; the C919 giant passenger plane has entered industrial operation; manufacturing and gross sales of new power autos rank first globally; and the CR450 high-speed prepare additional consolidates China’s main place in high-speed rail expertise. Meanwhile, the world’s first fourth-generation nuclear energy plant has entered industrial operation, and China ranks first globally in put in capability of photovoltaic and wind energy. An growing quantity of cutting-edge technological achievements are being remodeled into new high quality productive forces, injecting recent momentum into high-quality improvement.
Over the previous 5 years, China’s scientific and technological achievements have more and more benefited individuals’s livelihoods, constantly enhancing public well-being. iFLYTEK’s “Xiaoyi” AI-assisted common diagnostic system has enhanced main healthcare companies, whereas “AI+” functions are empowering industries throughout the board. During the 14th Five-Year Plan interval, the quantity of domestically developed revolutionary medicine launched on the market was 2.8 instances that of the thirteenth Five-Year Plan interval, making China the world’s second-largest nation in new drug analysis and improvement. Technologies akin to drones, unmanned vessels, underwater robots, and ground-penetrating radar have shaped built-in air-sea-land monitoring networks, considerably enhancing efforts to fight air, water, and soil air pollution. From good healthcare and digital governance to clever properties and inexperienced power, expertise is making public companies extra handy, environment friendly, and inclusive.
The Fourth Plenary Session of the twentieth CPC Central Committee reviewed and adopted the suggestions for the fifteenth Five-Year Plan, emphasizing the built-in improvement of schooling, science and expertise, and expertise, enhancing the general effectiveness of the nationwide innovation system, considerably enhancing scientific and technological self-reliance, and selling deeper integration between technological and industrial innovation. These efforts will additional drive China’s leapfrog progress in science and expertise and supply sturdy momentum for advancing Chinese modernization.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Guy Ryder has famous that China’s scientific and technological innovation is mirrored not solely in particular person breakthroughs, but in addition in the complete formation of innovation momentum. Amid the international wave of scientific and technological development, China is rising at an unprecedented tempo to grow to be a significant engine of international analysis. At the similar time, China is deeply engaged in international governance of science and expertise, having proposed the Global AI Governance Initiative, launched the International Science and Technology Cooperation Initiative, and brought the lead in launching the International Initiative on Open Science Cooperation. Through the joint institution of laboratories, worldwide expertise switch facilities, and different innovation platforms, China is selling the international openness and sharing of main scientific infrastructure.
The Government of North Macedonia attaches nice significance to scientific and technological improvement and digital transformation, continues to extend help for analysis and improvement, and has adopted planning paperwork akin to the Digital Communications Technology Development Strategy 2030. The vigorous improvement of China’s science and expertise sector will create broader area for China-North Macedonia cooperation. The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts has signed a scientific cooperation settlement with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and has collectively established a “Computational Neuroscience Joint Laboratory” with Zhejiang Chinese Medical University. Multiple universities in each nations keep cooperative partnerships, with frequent exchanges amongst researchers. At the finish of final 12 months, Professor Naim Mahmudiof Tetovo University visited China and engaged in tutorial exchanges with school and college students from the School of Materials Science and Physics at China University of Mining and Technology. A delegation from Lanzhou Jiaotong University visited North Macedonia and reached broad consensus with the University for Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle” in Ohrid on additional deepening personnel exchanges and pupil mobility.
The two sides get pleasure from vital cooperation potential in rising fields akin to genetic science, biomedicine, good healthcare, and synthetic intelligence. China stands able to proceed supporting the coaching of scientific and technological expertise in North Macedonia, promote deeper analysis cooperation, construct bridges of scientific collaboration by openness and inclusiveness, pool innovation-driven improvement by mutual profit and shared progress, and collectively form a future the place science and expertise serve the larger good.