China published a list of the top 30 scientific questions, engineering difficulties, and industrial technology bottlenecks it believes are preventing the nation from developing further on Sunday.

The list was announced at the China Association for Science and Technology's (CAST) 27th annual meeting, the eighth since 2018. Eighty national scientific associations oversaw a stringent screening procedure. Before the final list of 30 priorities was established, 56 distinguished strategic scientists proposed 90 concerns in 10 important disciplines, including industrial technology and fundamental sciences, according to CAST.

Among the carefully selected list are the top 10 frontier science problems in the country, such as the topological and geometric classification of manifolds and the properties and origin of the mass of the Higgs boson.

The top ten engineering technology challenges center on groundbreaking applications; noteworthy entries include AI-driven network systems that combine intelligence and communication and integrated algorithms for the design, modeling, and production of complicated models.

In addition, CAST listed the top ten industrial technology concerns in China, emphasizing the need to remove significant obstacles in application and manufacture. Priority topics include brain function evaluation in conjunction with closed-loop, brain-computer intelligent intervention, and autonomous mining technologies for deep-space resource use.