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BEIJING, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

"Hello, everyone. I'm out of the module. I'm feeling good," Chinese Taikonauts

Chen Dong said when he kicked off his spacewalk last week.

Chen and fellow Shenzhou-14 crew member Liu Yang completed all six-hour-long

extravehicular tasks on Friday (September 2), marking the fifth spacewalk

outside China's space station and the first out of the newly-launched Wentian

lab module.

Since 2020, China has successfully carried out a series of flight mission,

including the space station core module Tianhe, the Shenzhou-12 and Shenzhou-13

manned spacecraft, and the Tianzhou-2 and Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft,

achieving remarkable progress in China's space program.

Not only in aerospace, for the past decade, Chinese scientists are striving for

breakthroughs in core technologies echoing President Xi Jinping's call for

resolute efforts to achieve breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields.

On Tuesday, Xi stressed improving a new system for mobilizing the resources

nationwide to the core technologies research and development (R&D) while

presiding over the 27th meeting of the Central Commission for Comprehensively

Deepening Reform.

China should optimize the allocation of innovation resources based on the

country's strategic needs, strengthen the country's strategic scientific and

technological strength, greatly improve the systematic ability to tackle key

scientific and technological problems, and cultivate competitive advantages and

seize the strategic initiative in a number of important areas, Xi noted.

Mastering core technologies

"Core technologies cannot be purchased, or obtained by asking a favor from

others or by begging," Xi said during an inspection tour at Xi'an Institute of

Optics and Precision Mechanics in 2015.

Since 2012, the Chinese president has highlighted the importance of scientific

innovation and mastering core technology. Inspired by Xi, a large number of

core technologies have made breakthroughs, making great strides toward the

grand goal of China becoming a global leading power in science and technology.

The R&D in core technologies addresses major national needs. Cutting-edge

solutions supported the implementation of major infrastructure projects such as

the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the Sichuan-Tibet Railway. The clean and

efficient utilization of seabed oil and gas resources and coal, as well as the

development of new-generation nuclear technologies, are vital to guaranteeing

national energy security.

During COVID-19 epidemic, China has achieved a number of breakthroughs in

vaccines, drugs and testing reagents. The number of approved new Class-I drugs

in China has increased from five before 2012 to the current 79.

There are also a number of achievements with global influence. For instance,

China has made the world's first observation of the three-dimensional quantum

Hall effect and the controlled folding of graphene with atomic-level precision,

and developed the world's first heterogeneous fusion brain-like computing chip

"Tianji."

Opening wider to the world

Last year, China announced to open its Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical

Radio Telescope (FAST), the world's largest filled-aperture and most sensitive

radio telescope, to all scientists. Till June, the FAST has provided

observation service to 27 scientific projects in 14 countries around the world.

The opening of FAST is one of the examples demonstrating that China is

seriously expanding the circle of friends in science and technology.

Addressing a meeting conflating the general assemblies of the members of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and

the national congress of the China Association for Science and Technology

(CAST) last year, Xi has called on Chinese sci-tech workers to promote

openness, trust and cooperation with the international sci-tech community,

actively participate in solving the major challenges facing mankind, and strive

to promote the achievements of science and technology innovation to benefit

more countries and people.

According to the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, China has built

cooperative relations in the sci-tech field with 161 countries and regions,

signed 115 intergovernmental agreements and joined more than 200 international

organizations and multilateral mechanisms.

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SOURCE: CGTN