Firms to get support for future tech, products
China DailyA robot dog on display at the Global Digital Economy Conference 2024, which kicked off on Tuesday in Beijing. CHENG GONG/FOR CHINA DAILY China will encourage companies and institutions to develop core technologies and landmark products in future-oriented and strategic emerging industries, to drive industrial upgrade and promote new industrialization, the country's top industrial regulator said on Friday. He said the nation will also step up efforts to drive businesses in strategic emerging industries, which accounted for about 13 percent of China's GDP last year and boast significant growth potential in the future. "China will make greater efforts to cultivate leading companies with strong ecosystems related to such strategic emerging industries, and will strive to build more new pillar industries that can drive industrial upgrades," he added. Analysts at Wanlian Securities said in a research note that strategic emerging and future-oriented industries will be the key focus areas for industrial upgrade under the plan for developing new quality productive forces.