[Zhang Guoqing emphasized during a survey in Shanghai: Continue to improve industrial innovation capabilities and provide better services to support high-quality economic development] November 10th, Zhang Guoqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, visited Shanghai from the 9th to the 10th. He emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions and the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, solidly promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, continue to improve industrial innovation capabilities, and better serve and support high-quality economic development. Zhang Guoqing successively visited enterprises in the instrumentation, medical equipment and other industries, inspected laboratories and production workshops on-site, and learned about production operations, R&D and innovation from enterprise leaders, R&D personnel and front-line employees. He emphasized that it is necessary to highlight the supply of technological innovation and the traction of industrial demand, empower industrial innovation with high-quality technological supply, drive technological innovation with high-end, green, and intelligent industrial demand, and promote the accelerated transformation of innovation results into real productivity. It is necessary to strengthen basic research, focus on weak links in key areas, and strengthen breakthroughs in advanced basic technologies, key basic materials, and basic components to build a solid technical foundation for industrial development. It is necessary to improve the innovation achievement transformation mechanism that integrates research and application, strengthen professional services such as intellectual property rights, entrepreneurial incubation, and technology finance, promote the opening and collaborative sharing of scenarios, and smooth the innovation chain that connects technological research, pilot verification, application of results, and iterative upgrades. It is necessary to create a good innovation ecosystem, deepen the integration and innovation of large and medium-sized enterprises, and upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, and guide large enterprises to open application scenarios and supply chains to small and medium-sized enterprises. Traditional industries are the basic basis for economic growth and employment income. It is necessary to further promote advanced technology to empower traditional industries and promote high-quality development of traditional industries. Zhang Guoqing also went deep into relevant departments and units at the grassroots level, held discussions and exchanges with urban and town cadres, enterprise representatives, etc., and listened to opinions and suggestions. He emphasized the need to innovate consumption scenarios, optimize the consumption environment, continue to expand the supply of high-quality products and services, and promote consumption upgrades. We should pay more attention to the combination of "hard investment" and "soft construction", take the construction of "Six Networks" as an opportunity, strengthen project reserves and preliminary work, and promote the construction of major projects according to local conditions. It is necessary to deepen the construction of a unified national market, strengthen the rigid constraints of fair competition review, deepen the comprehensive rectification of "involution" competition, and create a fair and orderly market competition environment. It is necessary to promptly solve the practical difficulties faced by grassroots and business entities, step up efforts to solve the problem of corporate account arrears, stabilize the employment of key groups, secure the bottom line of the "three guarantees" at the grassroots level, and consolidate and expand the momentum of economic stability and improvement. (Xinhua News Agency)