Xi Jinping has made five important deployments to strive for high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement
If science and technology stand, the nation will stand, and if science and technology are strong, the country will be strong. Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has insisted on placing scientific and technological innovation at the core of the overall national development and comprehensively planning scientific and technological innovation. General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered important speeches at the 20th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 15th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, calling on the vast number of scientific and technological workers across the country to shoulder the important tasks entrusted by the times. Strive to achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. The editor combed some of the important expositions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on this aspect and studied together.
Strengthening originality and leading technological breakthroughs
Basic research is the source of the entire scientific system. To aim at the forefront of world technology, seize major trends, play the "first move" well, lay a solid foundation, reserve for the long term, be willing to sit on the cold bench, be brave to be a tree planter and well digger, achieve significant breakthroughs in forward-looking basic research and leading original achievements, and consolidate the foundation of building a world science and technology power. We should increase our efforts in applied basic research, take the promotion of major scientific and technological projects as the starting point, break through the "last mile", remove the "fence wall" that hinders industrialization, clear the fast lane connecting applied basic research and industrialization, promote the precise docking of innovation chain and industrial chain, accelerate the transformation of scientific research achievements from samples to products and then to commodities, and fully apply scientific and technological achievements to modernization.
-- On May 28, 2018, Xi Jinping's speech at the 19th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 14th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Technological breakthroughs should adhere to a problem oriented approach and strive towards the most urgent and pressing issues. Starting from the urgent and long-term needs of the country, we must make every effort to tackle key core technologies in areas such as oil and gas, basic raw materials, high-end chips, industrial software, crop seeds, scientific experimental instruments and equipment, chemical preparations, etc., and accelerate breakthroughs in a number of key core technologies in the fields of drugs, medical devices, medical equipment, vaccines, etc. We should target cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, quantum information, integrated circuits, advanced manufacturing, life and health, neuroscience, biological breeding, aerospace technology, deep earth and deep sea in the fundamental core areas that are related to overall development and national security. We should proactively deploy a number of strategic and reserve technology research and development projects and aim for the high ground of future technology and industrial development. We need to optimize fiscal investment in science and technology, with a focus on strategic and critical areas.
-- May 28, 2021, Xi Jinping's speech at the 20th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 15th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology
Strengthen the national strategic scientific and technological strength
We should take the construction of national laboratories as the starting point, strengthen the national strategic scientific and technological strength, focus on major areas with clear national goals and urgent strategic needs, take the strategic high ground that is expected to lead future development, take major scientific and technological tasks and national large-scale scientific and technological infrastructure as the main line, rely on the most advantageous innovation units, integrate national innovation resources, establish a new operating mechanism that is goal oriented, performance management, collaborative research and development, and open sharing, and build a breakthrough oriented, leading, and platform oriented national laboratory. Such national laboratories should become strategic technological forces to overcome difficulties and lead development, forming a new pattern of collaborative innovation with other types of scientific research institutions, universities, and enterprise research and development institutions that complement each other's functions and interact positively.
-- On May 30, 2016, Xi Jinping's speech at the National Science and Technology Innovation Conference, the Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Ninth National Congress of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology
The competition among world technological powers is about national strategic technological strength. National laboratories, national scientific research institutions, high-level research universities, and leading technology enterprises are all important components of the country's strategic scientific and technological strength, and must consciously fulfill the mission of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.
-- May 28, 2021, Xi Jinping's speech at the 20th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 15th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology
Promote the reform of the scientific and technological system
Our country's scientific and technological team has enormous innovation potential, and the key is to effectively unleash this potential through deepening the reform of the scientific and technological system. Transforming government functions is an important task of technological reform. Many of our industrial and supply chains require technological solutions, which can only be provided by the millions of technology workers and market entities fighting on the front line. What the government needs to do is to create a favorable environment, provide basic conditions, and play a good role in organizational coordination for them. We need to accelerate the transformation of technology management functions, shifting more energy from dividing money, materials, and projects to setting strategies, policies, creating an environment, and providing good services. We need to accelerate the reform of research institutes, give universities and research institutions greater autonomy, give innovative leading talents greater decision-making power in technology routes and funding, and resolutely eliminate the practice of "only focusing on papers, titles, degrees, and awards". We need to integrate the financial research investment system and change the fragmented and scattered state of departments. We will comprehensively study and consider the issue of strengthening the coordination of scientific and technological forces raised by everyone.
-Speech by Xi Jinping at the Symposium of Scientists, September 11, 2020
We should focus on improving the evaluation system and other basic reforms, adhere to the evaluation orientation centered on quality, performance, and contribution, comprehensively and accurately reflect the level of innovation, transformation and application performance, and actual contributions to economic and social development. In project evaluation, it is necessary to establish a sound evaluation system that conforms to the laws of scientific research activities, improve the classification evaluation system for free exploration and task oriented technology projects, and establish an evaluation mechanism for non consensus technology projects. In talent evaluation, we should simultaneously break through the "four criteria" and establish new standards, and accelerate the establishment of a technology talent evaluation system guided by innovative value, ability, and contribution. We should support scientific research institutions to explore and implement more flexible salary systems, stabilize and strengthen the team of scientific researchers engaged in fundamental, cutting-edge, and public welfare research, and provide guarantees for their peace of mind in scientific research.
-- May 28, 2021, Xi Jinping's speech at the 20th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 15th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology
Building an open innovation ecosystem
Science and technology are global and contemporary, and the development of science and technology must have a global perspective. Not rejecting the crowd is what makes the river and sea. Independent innovation is innovation in an open environment, which cannot be carried out behind closed doors. Instead, it should gather the energy of the four seas and borrow the strength of all directions. We need to deepen international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, promote independent innovation at a higher starting point, actively layout and utilize international innovation resources, strive to build a win-win partnership, jointly address common challenges such as future development, food security, energy security, human health, climate change, etc., benefit more countries and people while achieving our own development, and promote balanced development on a global scale.
-- On May 28, 2018, Xi Jinping's speech at the 19th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 14th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Science and technology are global and contemporary, and are the common wealth of humanity. To coordinate development and security, plan and promote innovation with a global perspective, actively integrate into the global innovation network, focus on issues such as climate change and human health, and strengthen joint research and development with researchers from various countries. We should actively design and lead international scientific programs and engineering projects, and establish scientific research funds for the world.
-- May 28, 2021, Xi Jinping's speech at the 20th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 15th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology
Stimulate the innovation vitality of all kinds of talents
It is necessary to reform the mechanism of talent training, introduction, and use, and strive to create a large number of strategic scientific and technological talents who can grasp the general trend of world science and technology and study and judge the direction of scientific and technological development, cultivate a large number of scientific and technological leaders who are good at gathering strength, overall planning and coordination, and cultivate a large number of innovative and innovative entrepreneurs and high-skilled talents. It is necessary to improve the training model of innovative talents, strengthen the cultivation of scientific spirit and creative thinking, strengthen the integration of science and education, school-enterprise cooperation and other models, cultivate a large number of innovative and entrepreneurial talents who are familiar with market operations and have scientific and technological backgrounds, and cultivate a large number of young scientific and technological talents. It is necessary to create a good academic environment, promote academic ethics and scientific research ethics, and create an atmosphere that encourages innovation and tolerates failure in the whole society. It is necessary to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, actively implement the distribution policy oriented to increase the value of knowledge, including increasing the proportion of income sharing in the transformation of scientific research personnel, and exploring the implementation of equity, options, dividends and other incentive measures for innovative talents, so that they can get their own place.
-- On May 30, 2016, Xi Jinping's speech at the National Science and Technology Innovation Conference, the Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Ninth National Congress of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology
Scientific and technological innovation is inseparable from the lasting time investment of scientific and technological personnel. In order to ensure the time of scientific research personnel, the central government proposed in 1961 to "ensure that scientific and technological personnel have five days a week to engage in scientific research". Guarantee time is to protect the ability to innovate! It is necessary to establish a guarantee mechanism that allows scientific research personnel to devote their main energy to scientific research, and to allow scientific and technological personnel to devote their main energy to scientific and technological innovation and research and development activities. All kinds of events, entertainment activities less scientific and technical personnel to participate in, will not bring any loss! We must not allow scientific and technological personnel to spend a lot of time on unnecessary welcome and send activities, on unnecessary evaluation activities, and on various activities of formalism and bureaucracy!
-- May 28, 2021, Xi Jinping's speech at the 20th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 15th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology
Information source: Department of Science and Technology of Shandong Province
