March 8, 2025 (EIRNS)—Speaking at his press conference at the National People’s Congress on March 7, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that U.S. tariffs and other barriers would not stop China’s continued innovation in science and technology. “Where there is blockade, there is breakthrough,” Wang said, “where there is suppression, there is innovation; where there is the fiercest storm, there is the platform launching China’s science and technology skyward like the Chinese mythological hero Ne Zha soaring into the heavens,” said Wang.
The Chinese foreign minister noted that science and technology should not be used to put up an iron curtain. “It should be the wealth that benefits all and is shared by all.” He also told reporters in attendance that “China is ready to share the fruits of our innovation with more countries and jointly explore the mysteries of the stars and oceans.”
Indeed the entire focus of this year’s “Two Sessions” has been on enhancing the push to new levels of scientific development as the key to overcome the pressures being exerted by the U.S. to stymie China’s continued development. The theme of the sessions was the creation of “new quality productive forces.” Even the head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Wu Qing, was asked at a forum on China’s economic development on March 6 how he would assure the safety of the investments into science and technology. “It seems that the forum on the economy has simply become a forum on science and technology,” he quipped.
In a speech to representatives of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative conference (CPPCC), which also includes members of the other political parties in China, President Xi Jinping underlined the importance of science and education as the backbone of the creation of the “new quality productive forces.”
(The myth of Ne Zha is now the focus of a second Chinese animated movie, “Ne Zha 2,” which has become the largest grossing animated film.)
