Li Keqiang presided over the executive meeting of the State Council and approved the 2019 National Science and Technology Award Review Results through the National Science and Technology Award Regulations (Revised Draft)

Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on December 18 to make arrangements to comprehensively promote the standardization and standardization of grass-roots government affairs, speed up the construction of a service-oriented government, and improve the level of benefiting enterprises and the people; through the regulations on National Science and Technology Awards (revised draft), improve the mechanism and better encourage innovation; and approve the evaluation results of the 2019 National Science and Technology Awards.

The meeting pointed out that implementing the regulations on the disclosure of government information, further promoting the openness of government affairs at the grass-roots level, and protecting the people's right to know, participate, and supervise in accordance with the law are important measures to deepen the reform of "delegation, management and service", optimize the business environment, and build a service-oriented government. The meeting decided to promote the standardization and standardization of government affairs covering the entire process of government services in counties, cities without districts, municipal districts, township governments, and sub-district offices and other grassroots governments across the country. Grass-roots government affairs are closely related to the interests of the masses, and government information must be made public as much as possible. First, we must expand public participation in administrative decision-making. The grass-roots government should clarify the scope and manner of public participation in administrative decision-making and make it public to the public. For matters involving the vital interests of the masses, hearings, seminars and other methods should be adopted to fully listen to opinions. The implementation of policies and the promotion of projects should respond to the concerns of the masses in a timely manner. For matters that fall within the scope of autonomy of village committees and neighborhood committees, grass-roots governments should guide and support autonomy in accordance with the law. Second, we should adjust measures to local conditions and seek truth from facts to promote the standardization of open government affairs at the grass-roots level. The grass-roots government should compile and complete the standard catalogue of government affairs disclosure at the corresponding level by the end of 2020, and implement the full disclosure of government affairs process and results. Third, we should fully disclose government service matters, guidelines and procedures through online and offline. County-level government portals should open a unified online service entrance to facilitate enterprises and the masses.

In accordance with the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, in order to further implement the innovation-driven development strategy, improve the science and technology award system, and stimulate the innovation vitality of the whole society, the meeting passed the National Science and Technology Award Regulations (Revised Draft), which will reform and reform the science and technology award system in recent years. Effective practices in practice have been upgraded to regulations. The first is to change the previous recommendation from units to experts, scholars, relevant departments and institutions, etc., to break the departmental monopoly and strengthen the nomination responsibility. The second is to improve the evaluation criteria and highlight the orientation. Natural science awards should focus on forward-looking and theoretical, and increase incentives for basic research such as mathematics; technological invention awards and science and technology progress awards should be closely integrated with major national strategies and development needs, and focus on innovation and efficiency. The third is to strengthen the integrity requirements and increase the intensity of disciplinary action. Individuals and organizations that violate ethics or conduct scientific misconduct in scientific and technological activities shall not be nominated or awarded awards. Nominating experts, institutions, review committee members, candidates, etc. who violate relevant disciplinary requirements shall be disqualified and recorded in the database of scientific research integrity and dishonesty. Fourth, we should adhere to the openness, fairness and impartiality of the evaluation activities, and supervise the whole process of nomination, evaluation and objection handling. Fifth, all localities and departments should streamline all kinds of scientific and technological awards, pay attention to quality, select the best from the best, reduce the burden of participating in the evaluation, and create a good environment for scientific researchers to devote themselves to research.

The meeting listened to the report on the evaluation results of the 2019 National Science and Technology Awards, reviewed and approved the winners, types and grades of awards, and focused on rewarding innovative achievements and innovative achievements of young talents that are of great originality, closely related to economic development and people's livelihood. Encourage all kinds of talents to compete for the peak of science and technology, support development with innovation and benefit the people.

The meeting also discussed other matters.

Information source: Ministry of Science and Technology