Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Tuesday stressed the importance and urgency of improving the country's capability of independent innovations in science and technology.
  
Wen, also head of the state's leading group for science, technology and education, presided over the group's third plenary meeting to review the country's plans on science and technology.
  
The capability of independent innovations is the strategic basis for the development of science and technology, the key to adjusting the industrial structure and transforming the mode of economic growth, said Wen.
  
The meeting heard the reports on Zhongguancun high-tech parks by Beijing Municipal Government, the pilot project of knowledge innovation by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the program for building a number of national key infrastructure facilities for science and technology by the National Development and Reform Commission.
  
The meeting said that China should give top priority to independent innovations in its science and technology work, which also should be included in the national economic and social development planning.
  
The national high-tech parks should play their part in increasing the country's capability of independent innovations, according to the meeting.
  
The meeting also stressed the importance of a favorable mechanism and environment for more independent innovations, including deepening the institutional reform in science and technology fields, strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR), and cultivating and introducing more talents. 

(Xinhua News Agency July 20, 2005)