国内英语资讯:Xi stresses deepening reform, opening-up in new era_时事

国内英语资讯:Xi stresses deepening reform, opening-up in new era

He also urged stronger policy support for deepening and expanding cooperation between Hengqin and Macao in developing emerging industries to inject more vitality into Macao's economy.

Later in the afternoon, Xi visited home appliances maker Gree Electric Appliances, inspecting its independent core technology research and development department, and holding talks with research staff in a national key laboratory on energy efficiency of air-conditioning products.

"The real economy is the foundation of a country's economy and source of wealth. Advanced manufacturing is one key area of the real economy and the economic development cannot be separated from the real economy at any time," he said.

Independent innovation is the only way towards scaling world heights in science and technology, and all enterprises should make arduous efforts towards this direction, he said.

"Enterprises should have the aspirations and guts to accelerate enhancing the capability of independent innovation, strive to achieve the independent control of key core technologies and hold firmly the initiative of innovative development in our own hands," he said.

On Tuesday afternoon, Xi inspected an e-commerce industrial park in the city of Qingyuan in central Guangdong, where he was briefed on local government's efforts in poverty relief and rural reform.

Xi said the unbalanced development between urban and rural areas and among different regions was the biggest challenge of Guangdong's high-quality development.