Guangdong promotes industrial innovation

Guangdong province will step up efforts to promote innovation in industrial technology to push forward with high-quality development, with talent and innovative enterprises playing key roles in the process, Huang Kunming, the province's Party secretary, said on Sunday.

As a major economy and manufacturing hub in South China, Guangdong has abundant resources and strength in scientific and technological innovation, he said, adding that it shoulders important missions and major responsibilities in high-quality development.

"Promoting innovation in industrial technology and developing new productivity boosters are strategic moves and long-term strategies of Guangdong," he said at the Guangdong Provincial High-quality Development Conference in Shenzhen. "And it will certainly be a tough race, endurance race and relay race."

Huang said talent is a "decisive factor" in promoting innovation in industrial technology.

"We should regard talent as a treasure," he said. "The key is to make good use of talented people so that they can shine."

More platforms and opportunities should be created to provide talented people with a large stage to give play to their strengths and benefit from the transformation or transfer of scientific achievements, Huang said.

Yan Ning, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and head of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, praised the Shenzhen city government's efforts in providing services and guarantees for talent.