World Bank Urges China to Open Tech Industries

World Bank Urges China to Open Tech Industries
The World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 8, 2003. Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images
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BEIJING—The World Bank and a Chinese Cabinet agency have urged Beijing to roll back plans for government-led technology development that are fueling a tariff war with Washington.

The appeal on Sept. 17 comes in a report on technology industries as “new drivers” for China’s economy that was commissioned three years ago, before the trade war erupted.