The two sessions: ＂Elephant in the room＂ of the press conference

Sino -US strategic competition is an elephant in the rooms in multiple occasions of this year.Officials are particularly careful when they respond to this subject, both worrying that the seriousness of the problem will be expanded by the media, but also hopes that through the media to convey the position of China's right to maintain development and soothe domestic people's concerns.

The side of the two sessions

The two nationwide sessions entered the second week. The Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang held a press conference yesterday to introduce China ’s scientific and technological policies and work deployment, but the most watched topic of international media MDASH; MDASH; the Cold War in the technological competition in China and the United States, but at the press conference,Only the words are not mentioned.

Wang Zhigang attended a press conference with a deputy minister and three chiefs.He answered all 11 questions, including how to promote the conversion of scientific and technological achievements, the use of scientific and technological budgets, how to support young scientists.

In the background of Sino -US trade friction, the United States increased its efforts to resist Chinese technology companies last year, and once banned ZTE's purchase of American chips, and tried to block 5G network construction from Western countries such as the United States.The reality of Chinese enterprises has stimulated the nerves of Chinese public opinion, and believes that this exposes the dependence of Chinese companies to American science and technology and the vulnerability of Chinese high -end technology development.

At the press conference yesterday, neither Huawei and the chip were mentioned.

Made in China 2025, which is absent from the Chinese government report this year, also continued to disappear.However, when Wang Zhigang answered questions from the People's Daily, he introduced that China will enter the ranks of innovative countries by 2020, enter the forefront of innovative countries by 2035, and become a strategy of the world's science and technology power by 2050.

This is again highlighted that China will not give up the ambitions of Made in China 2025, but in the environment where Sino -US relations are still in the environment of troughs and trade negotiations, they choose to express them in other ways.The Ministry of Science and Technology is one of the ministries and commissions participating in the formulation of the 2025 strategy of China.

Wang Zhigang also admitted yesterday that if China has become an innovative country, there is still a shortcoming, especially the basic research is still insufficient, and the innovative ecology needs to be improved. The government also needs to do more in terms of legal, policies, and scientific and technological resource allocation.

Although there is no name for the Sino -US trade war or the Cold War of Technology, Wang Zhigang has clarified that China does not give up the right to use high -tech to promote development through other expressions.

This is the first show of Wang Zhigang's two sessions since Wan Gang as the Minister of Science and Technology.In fact, other ministries and commissions of the State Council of the Chinese State Council responded to the issues of Sino -US relations during the two sessions this year, and they avoided more discussions and contradictions. Instead, they emphasized cooperation, consensus, and active expectations.

For example, Wang Yi, a member of the State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs, said last week that China and the United States are decoupling are not realistic. Cooperation is still the mainstream of Sino -US relations.Hope; central bank governor Yi Gang revealed that China and the United States have reached consensus on many key and important issues in the exchange rate field.

Sino -US strategic competition is an elephant in the rooms in multiple occasions of this year.Officials are particularly careful when they respond to this subject, both worrying that the seriousness of the problem will be expanded by the media, but also hopes that through the media to convey the position of China's right to maintain development and soothe domestic people's concerns.Sino -US trade negotiations are still underway. The game process is full of uncertainty. After China establish a better game plan, it may release more information to the media than now.