Leaping ahead with high-tech advances

An employee works on an assembly line at LCFC Electronics Technology on March 5, 2020. Green growth is also factored into regional planning Editor's Note: With this year's two sessions underway－the annual meetings of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference－China Daily toured China to gather a series of stories focusing on the achievements and blueprints in various regions. When people think of regions in China leading the development of high-end technologies, the country's developed coastal areas such as Guangdong province and Shanghai are usually the first places that will come to mind. "As Anhui made an all-out effort to make breakthroughs in key technologies in recent years, the province has made a large number of original technical innovations and is a pioneer in research on quantum science, artificial intelligence and hypersonic technology in the country," said Li Jinbin, Party chief of Anhui. When Jiangxi's governor Yi Lianhong delivered the work report of the provincial government in January, he said the province also saw value added in emerging sectors of strategic importance increase by 4.1 percentage points to 21.2 percent of the total for large industrial enterprises.