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State Council lays out growth ambitions for pillar industries

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Beijing is gearing up to spend big on a new set of industries. On July 10, the State Council executive meeting discussed how to scale up "emerging pillar industries" – which refers to semiconductors, aerospace, biopharma, the low altitude economy, new energy storage, and intelligent robots. The Stat...