Employees work at a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. [Photo/China Daily] Despite China's ongoing trade war with the United States, Guangdong province, an economic powerhouse, has found new ways to attain sustainable economic development. In addition to the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which helped the province maintain its strong growth momentum, innovation in science and technology was the key to sustainable economic growth last year, Wang Ruijun, director-general of the provincial Department of Science and Technology, told local media recently. Wang said the provincial government spared no effort to promote innovation after President Xi Jinping urged Guangdong to further develop its innovative industries during last year's two sessions - the annual meetings of China's top legislature and advisory body. Wang said Guangdong has invested more than 4 billion yuan ($593 million) to help build seven provincial-level laboratories and 72 other major scientific research projects to support economic development. It has also actively integrated its scientific and technological development into the country's development plan for major scientific and technological projects, while building the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Innovation Center of Science and Technology, he said. Wang said his department encourages companies to promote scientific and technology innovation to make them more competitive. Zhou Yawei, a member of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Committee of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Guangzhou Development District, said the district has registered more than 20,000 science and technology companies and took the lead in innovation among 219 State-level development zones in China last year. It is the first time the district - which is home to Sino-Singapore Knowledge City, Guangzhou Science City and Guangzhou International Island - has led State-level development zones in scientific and technological innovation. It ranked second in 2017. The district, in the eastern part of Guangzhou, introduced preferential policies to promote scientific and technological innovation years ago, Zhou said. Priority was given to the development of the information, artificial intelligence and biopharmaceutical industries. Scientific and technological innovation are expected to play an even bigger role in the district's economic development and industrial upgrading in the years ahead. Zhou promised to attract more high-end talent from home and abroad this year to help boost the district's scientific and technological innovation efforts. Yuan Yuyu, chairman and general manager of Medprin Biotech in Guangzhou, said the city and the whole Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area still have huge space to develop innovative businesses compared with the Tokyo, New York and San Francisco areas. Medprin has proposed building an innovation center for high-performance medical equipment and instruments in the Greater Bay Area. Guangdong, which has been largely reliant on foreign-oriented economic development, achieved GDP growth of 6.8 percent last year. The province's GDP, a barometer of China's reform and opening-up, reached 9.73 trillion yuan last year, cementing once more the top ranking in the country, a position it has held for more than three decades. The province's regional innovation topped the country for the past two years, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology. Its investment in research and development exceeded 250 billion yuan last year, or 2.65 percent of the province's GDP. Guangdong had registered more than 40,000 new and high-tech companies as of the end of last year, more than any other provincial-level region. custom bar braceletcustom sports braceletscustom logo wristbandsde securite pour personne ageeembossed wristbandscolorfilled wristbandsembossed printed wristbandsdual layer wristbands
BEIJING -- Discipline inspection agencies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at various levels have been introducing more effective measures to regulate and oversee their staff.A total of 22 officials with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the CPC's top anti-graft agency, have been investigated and about 230 officials received written or oral warnings since the 18th CPC National Congress in late 2012, according to CCDI sources.During the same period, more than 10,000 officials with discipline inspection agencies at various levels were punished. Among them were in-service and retired officials."We would like to deliver a clear message that discipline inspection agencies will not relax scrutiny over themselves," the sources said.The agencies have also paid great attention to education and training of their staff. About 178,000 officials attended more than 1,000 training courses in the past five years.Jointly with China Central Television, the CCDI produced a three-episode TV documentary, which featured interviews with former officials of discipline inspection agencies convicted of graft.The documentary, aired in January last year, served as a fresh warning to all inspection officials.To streamline anti-graft work, the CCDI issued a protocol regulating the procedure of how discipline inspectors initiate and carry out investigation and put it in a trial run in January last year.The protocol aimed to close loopholes in inspection procedures and minimize the possibility of outside intervention and rent seeking."The protocol well responds to the question who to inspect discipline inspectors," said Professor Xie Chuntao with the CPC Central Committee Party School, adding that internal control measures were carefully designed and learned lessons from corrupt officials.
