Xi calls for advancing Chinese modernization through sci-tech innovation
Jul 9, 2026
Over the past two years, China has achieved a string of remarkable sci-tech breakthroughs, including Chang'e-6 completing humanity's first-ever sample return from the moon's far side, smart robots and drones making strides in both R&D and industrial application, innovative drugs leaping from imitation and follow-on research to world-first development, as well as domestically-bred crop varieties covering over 95 percent of the country's farmland.