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Xi Pushes Advanced Manufacturing Self-Reliance as Exports Rise
President Xi Jinping urged China to expand its advanced manufacturing sector, strengthen control over key industrial supply chains, and accelerate AI-driven upgrades to build a modern industrial system with greater self-reliance in high-end technology. The push accompanies a shift of resources toward manufacturing and indigenous tech, with Premier Li Qiang backing next-generation intelligent manufacturing amid global supply-chain disruptions.
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About Li Qiang
Li Qiang is a Chinese politician who is the premier of China and the second-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Everything about Li Qiang →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Premier of the People's Republic of China, Secretary of the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- Citizenship
- People's Republic of China
- Born
- July 23, 1959