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BEIJING, July 13-- President Xi Jinping has stressed improving innovation capabilities for key and core technologies to offer a strong technological guarantee for China's development. Key and core technologies are crucial to a country and bear major significance for promoting China's high-quality economic development and maintaining national security, Xi, also head of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, said at a meeting of the committee on Friday. China must improve innovation capabilities for key and core technologies and keep a firm hold on the initiative in the development of science and technology to offer a strong technological guarantee for China's development, Xi pointed out. Representatives from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering reported their work at the meeting. A statement of the meeting said China's technology innovation capabilities have improved markedly in recent years, but the level of technology development, especially in key and core technologies, still has much room to improve to match international advanced levels. China should enhance fundamental research and seek major breakthroughs, the statement said, calling for an enhanced sense of urgency and crisis. The meeting asked for the establishment of a mechanism to enhance the development of key and core technologies and more targeted planning of related systems and new platforms. | 
