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Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday that China will break any impediments in its institutional systems in order to facilitate technological innovations so that they can play a major role in the country's future development.
Li gave this statement in a meeting with Marcia McNutt, the editor-in-chief of Science magazine. He responded to a series of questions from McNutt, regarding topics like space technology, climate change and environmental protection.
China, according to Li, will rely more on technology in its future economic and social development. Li said that it was technological innovation that actively played an important role in overcoming numerous difficulties of the country in 2013, which led to a stable development of the country's economy.
McNutt, a U.S. geophysicist and former director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), took the position as the magazine's editor-in-chief in 2013. She was the first female director of USGS ever since it was established in 1879. She is also the first woman to be the editor-in-chief of Science since it started publication in 1880. McNutt complimented Li saying the meeting was "an honor for science globally".
She added that the meeting shows the world how China values scientific information as highly important to its future and will utilize it to remedy global problems. Science is the official publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a non-profit organization. Science is one of the world's top scientific magazines and is read weekly by an estimated 1 million people all over the world.
The journal has promoted a good relationship with the Chinese government as far back as 2008 when then Chinese premier Wen Jiabao agreed to an exclusive interview with Bruce Alberts, McNutt's predecessor.
