China to foster emerging industries and future technologies

China will nurture emerging and future industries, according to a government work report submitted Thursday to the country's top legislature for deliberation.

In 2026, the country will foster emerging pillar industries such as integrated circuits, aviation and aerospace, biomedicine, and the low-altitude economy, the report said.

It also identifies several key industries of the future such as future energy, quantum technology, embodied artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and 6G technology.

According to a draft outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), also submitted Thursday, China will accelerate the development of emerging strategic industries over the next five years. These include new-generation information technology, new energy, new materials, intelligent connected new energy vehicles, robotics, biomedicine, high-end equipment, and aviation and aerospace.

The draft outline also urges efforts to foster new drivers of economic growth such as quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen and nuclear fusion power, brain-computer interfaces, embodied artificial intelligence, and 6G mobile communications during this period.

Additionally, China vows to drive advances in original innovation and breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields, and move faster to achieve greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology, according to the report.

China will take extraordinary measures to drive decisive breakthroughs across full chains in integrated circuits, machine tools, high-end instruments, basic software, advanced materials and bio-manufacturing, according to the draft outline.

The report also highlighted that China will build three international centers for sci-tech innovation and turn them into world-class innovation engines.