China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has held a series of emergency meetings with leading semiconductor businesses over the last week to examine the impact of US chip restrictions, according to Bloomberg News.

According to the report, the ministry asked executives from companies such as Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) and supercomputer expert Dawning Information Industry Co to attend closed-door talks.

This month the Biden administration passed a sweeping set of export controls aimed at slowing Beijing’s technological and military advances, including sales restrictions on certain advanced chips and chip equipment tools.

Experts have said the new rules will have a broad impact, slowing China’s efforts to develop its own chip industry and advance commercial and state research involving military weapons, artificial intelligence, data centres and many other areas that are powered by supercomputers and high-end chips.

According to the Bloomberg report, many of the participants at the meetings argued that the U.S. curbs spell doom for their industry, as well as China’s ambitions to untether its economy from American technology.

YMTC, Dawning and the industry ministry did not immediately reply to Reuters’ requests for comment.

On Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for his country to “win the battle” in core technologies in his full work report as he kicked off the once-every-five-years Communist Party Congress.

Experts have said the work report could signal an overhaul in Beijing’s approach to advancing its tech industry, with more state-led spending and intervention to counter U.S. pressures.