Recently, the Department of Hi-tech Development and Industrialization of MOST held the general panel meeting for “the Modern Service Industry Common Technical Support System and Application Demonstration Project”, which is a major project of the Key Technologies R&D Program during the 11th Five-Year Period.

Vice Minister CAO Jianlin presented letters of appointment to the members of the general panel, and put forward the following advice for the modern service industry: 1) to strengthen development strategy research and continue research on technological development theory, innovative service model, technical road map, standard system, core competency and related policies; 2) to carry out research on innovation, technology breakthroughs and application demonstration in line with regional economy and speciality industries; 3) to improve S&T innovation systems for modern service industry; 4) to enhance service discipline study and nurture a batch of professionals.