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Developing technology is certainly a good thing, but it should never be set against development science.
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In recent years, whenever basic research is mentioned, some people have said that applied research is more important, as a way to oppose increasing investment in basic research. Generally speaking, this statement simply means that at the current stage of Development in China, applied research is more important. What is even more wonderful, however, is the fundamental denial of the importance of basic research.
For example, in 2021, Professor Jiang Xiaoyuan wrote two articles, "Revisiting: Science and Technology are Two Parallel Systems" (http://www.whb.cn/mobile/#/news/418146) and "Is the United States Strong Because of the Emphasis on Basic Science?" (http://www.whb.cn/mobile/#/news/433395), it is believed that the United States is only technologically advanced, not scientifically advanced, and propaganda on the importance of basic research, such as Vannivar Bush's report "Science: Endless Frontiers," is a strategic deception, and China's low investment in basic research is a strategic determination of great wisdom and foolishness, which should be maintained for a long time. Some people also refute these views, such as Researcher Fan Chunliang's "How to View Basic Research in the United States?" ——Commenting on Professor Jiang Xiaoyuan's "Is the United States Strong Because of the Emphasis on Basic Research?" and another article, pointing out many of Jiang Wen's hard wounds.
In my opinion, the problems are actually very simple: the debate is wrong. Developing technology is certainly a good thing, but it should never be set against development science. Science and technology are a whole, and the real problem on the mainland now is that science and technology as a whole receive too little attention and investment, not that science and technology are more and less within science and technology. While many people are arguing about whether to spend 40 billion yuan to build a large collider, Dushan County has quietly thrown 40 billion yuan into the water, built a bunch of so-called "the world's first water division building" and other things, P2P and virtual currency have caused an unknown number of billions of chicken feathers, these are not the real problems? If these ridiculous expenditures are saved and invested in scientific and technological research and development, how much progress can the mainland make?
The problem for many is to harshly rebuke the sages. When a good thing is mentioned, it is subconsciously compared with another good thing, as if it is necessary to pinch between good people and good things, but to forget the bad people and bad things. The right way of thinking is to compress the bad things and increase the good things. Only by doing things with such a pattern and a mind can we lead the country to the right path.