China will create more high-tech industries over the next decade with emerging sectors driving future growth, Zheng Shanjie, head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said during a press conference on the guiding principles for China's socioeconomic development.

Building on and reinforcing the foundations of the real economy, China will focus on four key priorities: consolidation and upgrade of traditional industries, fostering emerging and future industries, quality improvements, and completing the modernization of infrastructure, as set at the fourth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing on Thursday.

Recommendations for formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan call for building new strategic industries and accelerating the development of industrial clusters in new energy, new materials, aviation and aerospace, and the low-altitude economy, which are forecast to give rise to several trillion-yuan or even larger scale markets, said Zheng.

In 2024, China's "three new" economies, comprising new industries, new business formats and new business models, added a value of more than 18 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).

Planning for the future, emphasis is placed on industries about to take off, such as quantum technology, bio-manufacturing, hydrogen and nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, 6G mobile communications, as new quality drivers of economic growth.

It means that over the next 10 years, China will build more high-tech industries in the push for basically achieving socialist modernization by 2035.

A series of major national science and technology plans will be put into action with priority in national strategic needs, added Chinese Minister of Science and Technology, Yin Hejun, at the press conference.

Original innovation and decisive breakthroughs in core technologies across critical fields, including integrated circuits, industrial mother machines and high-end instruments, are expected through a full-chain approach.

This approach centers around strengthening the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic planning of basic research, with increased long-term and stable support. It emphasizes original innovation in scientific research and technological development, aiming to produce more landmark original achievements.