He was also a member of the Communist Party of China and recipient of several national science and technology awards.
He urged the government to enhance cyberspace security, asking for better protection of key infrastructure and more investment in core technologies.
He was encouraged that Chinese officials talked about private sector involvement a few times at an April 25 forum session.
He said the bureau is preparing a list of recommended buyers for the CIIE to invite, focusing on qualified private companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, and foreign firms.
He said that the same intestinal disease that abruptly curtailed his first tenure as prime minister in 2007, having only entered office in late September 2006, had struck again with a vengeance, to the extent that, as he put it, it had become hard for him to make "sound judgements due to illness" and making way for a new leader was the best, if not only way forward.
He underlined the importance of reform in promoting technological innovation, and said institutional barriers should be removed to allow scientific researchers to be more active and creative in their work.
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He was charged with using his posts, including senior vice president of Chinese oil giant Sinopec Corp., to seek profits for others as well as illegally asking for and accepting a huge amount in bribes.
He said: "The risk right now, in Toronto or in Canada, for the general public ... is zero."
He says Bangalore has enough annual rainfall to provide water for its estimated 10 million people without resorting to borewells or rivers - if only it could harvest the resource more effectively.
He said the replantation is a race against time, and they have been doing it inch by inch.