China has made significant progress in science and technology in the last four decades of reform and opening-up, but has not mastered some core technologies in the information industry, said Tian Li, director of the Internet Development Research Institute of Peking University, in a recent article published in the People's Daily.

More efforts are needed to break the bottleneck in core technologies, to build a "digital China" and render it a new engine in the nation's socioeconomic development, the scholar said.

Tian suggested that China tilt budgets toward basic scientific research. China's information technology was driven by the market at the initial stage, so the research and development in the basic and key technologies are not sufficient, Tian believed.

The shortcomings are becoming a throttle point for the industry's further development, Tian said.