China poised to see notable economic rebound in 2023: Officials and experts

The conference stressed that industrial policies should be optimized to facilitate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation and growing of strategic emerging industries, as well as shore up the weak links in industrial chains and forge new competitive advantages in the country's pursuit of carbon peaking and neutrality goals.

Wang Yiming, vice-chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said the country will continue to make cultivating strategic emerging industries a key task, and speed up research and development and industrial application of cutting-edge technologies such as new energy, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, green and low-carbon technologies and quantum computing.

Besides, the country needs to strengthen scientific and technological innovation to support the modern industrial system, enhance its ability to ensure the supply of strategic resources, and vigorously develop the digital economy.