CPPCC member Sun Junqing [Photo/Inner Mongolia Daily]

Sun Junqing – a delegate from North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region – called for people to take inspiration from the spirit of the Mongolian horse in their pursuit of science and technological innovation, at a sub-meeting of the third session of the 13th National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing on May 22.

Sun Junqing is the director of the Science and Technology Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and also a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Sun pointed out that promoting the spirit of Mongolian horses – that endure hardships, work hard and never stop reaching their goal – would be an encouragement and spur to science and technology workers in the autonomous region.

At present, Inner Mongolia is in a critical period of transformation and development, she said. Whether it is in the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries or the cultivation and growth of emerging industries, there is an urgent need for strong support from technological innovation.

However, compared with those surging needs, there were still many shortcomings in the autonomous region's scientific and technological innovation development, such as a weak foundation in R&D and insufficient skilled workers.

Sun emphasized that it was of great importance to adopt Mongolian horse spirit in R&D – implementing innovation-driven development strategy, stimulating the innovation vitality of the main body of the region’s enterprises and achieving commercialization of its scientific research results.

She said that in 2020, Inner Mongolia will strengthen its cooperation with technologically developed regions and high-level colleges, introduce high-quality innovation resources and make further efforts in its technological research and transformation of R&D results.