Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Friday released its five-year plan on its official website, vowing to make multiple science and technology breakthroughs in areas ranging from artificial intelligence to smog control.
The CAS unveiled 60 major science and technology breakthroughs the country aspires to make in the 13th five-year plan (2016-20) on Wednesday, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Key projects listed also include organ repair and reconstruction, research on Moon samples, a low-frequency radio telescope on the far side of the Moon and the development of a ground application system for the Mars mission.
"We will strive to occupy the international high ground in strategic hotspots and blaze the trail in cutting-edge and cross-discipline areas, achieving a series of major original achievements, technologies and products," said CAS President Bai Chunli.
These projects span life and health, resources and environment, new generation materials, energy, oceans, information, photoelectricity and space.
According to the plan, the country will join the world-leading club in physics, chemistry, materials science, math, ecology and earth sciences by the end of 2020, while holding a series of independent intellectual property rights (IPR) and industrial technology standards.
It set the goal to double the country's 2015 IPR earnings by 2020, and help companies to create 150,000 jobs and additional revenue worth more than 4.8 trillion yuan ($717 billion) with the application of new technology. (Xinhua)
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