China high-quality modernization in the spotlight

Editor's Note: As 2025 marks the final year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, China is accelerating its efforts to achieve high-quality modernization, foster technological innovation, and implement industrial upgrading. A key highlight from this year's government work report recently released is the focus on embodied AI, an emerging field that fuses artificial intelligence with robotics, reshaping industries from manufacturing to healthcare. With global competition in science and technology intensifying, how is China positioning itself at the forefront of innovation? In this edition of the Hub, Wang Guan talks to experts and entrepreneurs in the field, to discuss how China is making headway in developing new productive quality forces and new industries through integrated and clustered development.