Key meeting lays out long-term plan for economic work

Modern industrial system

Accelerated steps were urged to foster and expand strategic emerging industries and develop more mainstay industries, as well as promote the in-depth integration of the digital economy with advanced manufacturing and modern services and to advance the safe and sound development of artificial intelligence.

Further promoting the construction of a modern industrial system will help expand and consolidate the advantages of industrial development and deeply integrate digital technology with the real economy to cultivate new growth engines, said Li Gang, a researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.