Cai Qi Emphasizes Talent for China's Socialist Modernization
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Cai Qi, a Politburo Standing Committee member, stressed the strategic importance of "talent" in party governance at a meeting with specialists, urging them to advance science and contribute to China's 15th five-year plan and socialist modernization.
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Cai Qi, a Politburo Standing Committee member, emphasized the strategic importance of "talent" for party governance at a meeting marking the start of China's 15th five-year plan.
The report did not name those invited but did say they included specialists working at the frontiers of basic research, strategic and cutting-edge technologies and core technologies in key fields, as well as academics in philosophy and the social sciences.
Cai, who ranks fifth in the ruling Communist Party’s hierarchy, is a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and director of the party’s General Office.
The Xinhua report said that at the meeting he stressed the strategic importance of “talent” in party governance.
This year is the start of China’s 15th five-year plan and Cai called on the researchers to advance the scientific spirit, strive for breakthroughs in their fields, and make greater contributions to “securing decisive progress in basically realising socialist modernisation”.
Open Questions
- How will "decisive progress" be measured?
- What specific breakthroughs are targeted?
- Who were the unnamed specialists?
