Ni Hong visits the National Technology Innovation Center for Green and Low-Carbon Buildings

According to China Construction News, recently Ni Hong, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, visited the National Technology Innovation Center for Green and Low-Carbon Buildings, inspected the research laboratory building, and listened to a report on scientific research work. Ni Hong stated that the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will continue to strongly support the construction of scientific and technological innovation platforms such as the National Technology Innovation Center. He expressed the hope that the Center will firmly grasp its positioning as a national-level scientific and technological innovation platform, proactively undertake national key scientific and technological research tasks, make efforts to consolidate and enhance world-leading technologies, concentrate on tackling bottleneck technologies, and promote and apply practical technologies that benefit the people. It should seize the historic opportunity of artificial intelligence development, revitalize data assets in the building sector, strengthen the data foundation, and empower the industry's transformation and upgrading. It should continue to promote deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application, and reduce costs and improve quality through scientific and technological innovation. It should intensify talent cultivation, foster first-class scientific and technological leaders and innovation teams, and strive to build an authoritative certification body that is domestically leading and internationally recognized.