Build a strong country in science and technology, seize the day!

Author: Guan Mingwen (Writers: Bo Jieping, Wang Jin, Qi Fang, Zhan Yuan, Liu Wenjia)

On October 16, 1964, a loud bang shook the world on Lop Nur, and China's first atomic bomb was successfully exploded! Relying on its own strength, the mainland has achieved a major breakthrough in cutting-edge science and technology for national defense and has become a "great power with important influence."

Today, 60 years later, China, which has become an important pole of the global innovation map, has taken a more solid step in building a scientific and technological power, ushering in another critical moment:

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made clear the grand goal of building a strong country in science and technology by 2035, and the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made preparations for promoting high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance.

Know the way and start a new journey.

For the grand plan of China in the future, we catch the moon and seize the day!

1. The Road of History: Science is a powerful lever of history

Why didn't modern science be born in China?

"Joseph Needham's Question" is not only an academic topic, but also a record of a humiliating history in modern China. At that time, the word "foreign" was everywhere, foreign guns and cannons, foreign cars and ships, foreign fires and foreign medicines...... If you are backward, you will be beaten, and the root cause is that science and technology are not strong.

At the beginning of its founding, the People's Republic of China, which was born in the smoke of gunfire, regarded the development of science and technology as the top priority of national construction. Over the past 75 years, under the leadership of the party, the mainland's scientific and technological undertakings have gone through an extraordinary road of exploration.

1. State-owned 221 Factory: The Mountain of Ten Thousand Feet begins here

In the Jinyintan grassland of Haiyan County, Qinghai Province, there is a special city - Atomic City. It was built in 1958 as the mainland's first nuclear weapons development base, and used to be known as the "state-owned 221 plant".

Walking through the small town, walking past the office buildings and factories with mottled exterior walls, looking at the faded red slogans, you can still touch the stirring history.

It was in that humble office and test site that Wang Ganchang and the young scientific researchers found the cause of the sudden explosion of the detonator and solved the key problems in the detonation test.

It was with the old spherical machine tool that the most experienced master in the factory drove the first hydrogen bomb warhead, and the manufacturing of core components took a key step;

Peng Huanwu, Deng Jiaxian, Zhou Guangzhao...... A large number of scientists, technicians, and PLA officers and soldiers have "done incognito and done earth-shattering things" here, shattering the nuclear monopoly and nuclear blackmail of the superpowers.

Why did the "two bombs and one satellite" succeed?

Zhang Jinfu, former member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee and state councilor, summed it up as follows: "We have the party's strong leadership and the correct principles and policies of the central authorities, and we rely on a group of highly patriotic scientists who have returned from abroad, and we have relied on them to bring out a group of young scientists......

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has always attached great importance to the development of science and technology.

On November 1, 1949, just one month after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences was founded. Its mission is grand and simple: to systematically use the achievements of modern and modern science to serve the construction of industry, agriculture and national defense, and to organize and guide scientific research throughout the country in order to improve the level of scientific research in China.

In 1956, after the socialist transformation was basically completed, the Party Central Committee issued a call to "march towards modern science". Since then, the "12-year science and technology plan" and "10-year science and technology plan" have been promulgated one after another, and the strategic goals of "four modernizations" have been explored and formed.

It was a time of material poverty and whiteness, but it couldn't stop the pure heart of overseas students: Qian Xuesen, Zhao Zhongyao and others gave up their luxurious life abroad and came back, and they waited for the rest of their lives and forgot to sleep and eat!

In 1952, the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, the first railway in New China, was opened to traffic;

In 1958, the mainland's first general-purpose digital electronic computer 103 came out;

In 1973, Chen Jingrun published a detailed proof (1+2), which was called "Chen's theorem" by the international mathematical community......

The spring river lingered temporarily, and stepped on the peak to look at the eyes. New China's science and technology undertakings, dare to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky!

2. Spring Symphony: The highest musical verve in the realm of thought

In March 1978, the National Science Conference was held.

"Science and technology are productive forces" and "the key to the four modernizations is the modernization of science and technology...... Comrade Deng Xiaoping's speech swept away the haze for the development of science and technology, and the pride of struggle was permeated in the spring of science.

Jiang Xinsong, the first generation of automation college students trained in the mainland. In August 1979, when he led a team to attend the first International Artificial Intelligence Symposium in Tokyo, Japan, he wanted to buy a robot, but was rejected by Japan companies on the ground: "Even if I sell it to you, you won't use it." ”

Make up your mind to do it yourself! Jiang Xinsong led the team to the forefront. developed the "Hairen-1" underwater robot and the "Explorer" cableless underwater robot with a depth of 1,000 meters, and participated in the formulation of strategic planning for intelligent robots and industrial automation in the mainland...... He fought until the last moment of his life.

On the basis of Jiang Xinsong's business, the "Jiaolong" manned submersible and the "Qianlong No. 1" 6,000-meter-class unmanned cableless deep submersible have been successfully developed; SIASUN Company, named after him, became a leading enterprise in the field of robot manufacturing.

Looking back at history, at every key node in tracking and catching up with the world's advanced level, the Party Central Committee has guided the development of science and technology.

In May 1995, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Decision on Accelerating the Progress of Science and Technology", which determined the implementation of the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education.

In January 2006, the National Science and Technology Conference proposed to build an innovative country and promulgated the Outline of the National Medium and Long-term Science and Technology Development Plan (2006-2020).

In July 2012, the National Science and Technology Innovation Conference was held, and "independent innovation" was raised to an unprecedented height......

Only one wave moves with ten thousand waves.

Bai Chunli, an expert in nanotechnology, Pan Jianwei, an expert in quantum physics, Wang Yifang, an expert in particle physics, Guo Lei, an expert in system and control science, and Shi Yigong, a structural biologist, ...... Following in the footsteps of their predecessors, young and promising scientific and technological workers have returned to China to devote themselves to the construction of an innovative country.

From the first synthetic yeast alanine transfer ribonucleic acid to participation in the Human Genome Project; From the successful development of the first "Galaxy" giant machine with more than 100 million calculations per second, to the first high-energy accelerator, the Beijing Positron Collider, was put into use; From the first time that a Chinese research ship launched a global ocean scientific expedition to the first time that Chinese astronauts entered space......

Albert Einstein once likened the achievements of scientific research to "the highest musical verve in the field of thought". China's science and technology in the spring have composed a moving movement!

3. High-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance: towards the apex of scientific brilliance

On July 19, 2024, Microsoft's "blue screen failure" spread around the world, and multinational aviation, railway, financial and other industries could not operate normally. China, which has its own layout in the Internet field, has not been affected by this "global disaster". Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" commented: "In today's increasingly fierce competition among major powers, only by mastering key science and technology in our own hands can we not be controlled by others." ”

Intensify scientific and technological innovation, seize the commanding heights of future development, and make historic achievements and changes in China's scientific and technological undertakings in the new era.

For the first time in humans!

One day in 2021, Cai Tao, who has always been steady, ran in the corridor of the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The lab informed him: "It's blue!" "Carbon dioxide synthetic starch has succeeded! This proves the feasibility of a new route of "technological creation" and provides a scientific basis for the creation of new functional biological systems.

The world's first!

In October 2023, the research team of Peking University developed a pure silicon modulator with an electro-optical bandwidth of 110GHz, increasing the bandwidth of a pure silicon modulator to more than 100GHz for the first time in the world. This breakthrough provides key technical support for the application of high-speed and short-distance data centers and optical communications, and is of great significance for the development of next-generation data centers.

The world's first!

In April 2024, the strongest "air power bank" on the surface was successfully connected to the grid in Feicheng, Shandong Province. This 300 MW advanced compressed air energy storage national demonstration power station with completely independent intellectual property rights can convert unstable electrical energy into air pressure energy and part of thermal energy storage, which is the largest, most efficient, best performance and lowest cost among similar products in the world.

The list of winners of the National Science and Technology Award depicts the footprint of self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology - high-precision flight verification technology and equipment for complex airports in 2019, independent research and development and industrialization of large-scale offshore agitation and dredging equipment, and other projects; 2020 projects such as nano-confined catalysis, key technologies of ultra-high-definition video polymorphic primitive codec, etc.; Topological electronic materials calculation and prediction in FY2023, Fuxing high-speed train, and other projects......

Chang'e-6 successfully landed on the far side of the moon and brought back 1,935.3 grams of samples from the far side of the moon, and the world's largest and most sensitive high-altitude cosmic ray observatory captured the brightest gamma-ray bursts; The demonstration project of Huaneng Shidaowan high-temperature gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plant, the world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant, is running smoothly......

As of 2023, the mainland ranks first in the world in terms of the number of top 100 global science and technology innovation clusters, the number of international patent applications in the world, and the number of effective domestic invention patents......

Chinese scientific and technological workers in the new era are constantly climbing towards the apex of scientific glory!

Second, the power of thought: to create a new realm of science and technology with thorough theory

In the new era of China, heavy equipment casting, track innovation, and industrial development are inseparable from the far-sighted strategic conception and theoretical innovation behind it.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, standing in the new historical direction of the development of the mainland and the world, and grasping the overall situation of the great rejuvenation strategy of the Chinese nation and the great changes in the world unseen in a century, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has systematically summarized the practical experience and theoretical methods of the mainland's scientific and technological development, and guided the mainland's scientific and technological strength and innovation ability to be comprehensively improved in the new era.

Adhere to the overall leadership of the party, adhere to the path of independent innovation with Chinese characteristics, adhere to innovation-led development, adhere to the strategic orientation of "four aspects", adhere to the deepening of reform to stimulate innovation vitality, adhere to promote the virtuous cycle of educational science and technology talents, adhere to the cultivation of innovation culture, adhere to the open cooperation of science and technology for the benefit of mankind——

On June 24, 2024, at the National Science and Technology Conference, the National Science and Technology Award Conference, and the Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, General Secretary Xi Jinping incisively summarized the important experience of the development of mainland science and technology in the new era. "Eight insistences", every word.

1. The majestic mountains look at the main peak: the advancing political party must grasp the science of progress

The key to running China's affairs well lies in the Communist Party of China; To understand China's scientific and technological undertakings, we must understand the Communist Party of China.

From the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to "education, science and technology, and talents are the basic and strategic support for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way...... The CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has continuously strengthened its centralized and unified leadership over scientific and technological work to ensure that the cause of science and technology has always moved forward in the right direction.

——Standing at the forefront of the times and looking at the general trend.

Our party analyzes the evolution mechanism of the scientific and technological revolution from the long river of history, the tide of the times, and the global situation, and proposes that "scientific and technological strength determines the changes in the balance of political and economic forces in the world, and also determines the future and destiny of all countries and nations", emphasizing that "Chinese-style modernization must be supported by scientific and technological modernization, and high-quality development must rely on scientific and technological innovation to cultivate new kinetic energy".

——Improve the top-level design and seek the overall situation.

Establish the Central Science and Technology Committee to study and review major national strategies, major plans and major policies for the development of science and technology, and coordinate and solve major strategic, directional and overall major issues in the field of science and technology; The Ministry of Science and Technology will be reorganized to strengthen its functions of promoting and improving the new national system, optimizing the management of the whole chain of scientific and technological innovation, and promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

-- Deepen the understanding of laws and grasp the fundamentals.

Deeply summarize the important experience of the development of science and technology in the new era, clarify the basic connotation, strategic path and key tasks of accelerating the construction of a scientific and technological power under the new situation, and continuously deepen the understanding of the law of innovation and development, the law of science and technology management, and the law of talent growth.

The direction determines the path, and the road determines the destiny.

The leadership of the party is the fundamental guarantee to ensure that the development of science and technology always moves in the right direction; The path of independent innovation with Chinese characteristics is the only way to firmly grasp the lifeline of scientific and technological innovation and the development initiative in our own hands.

From the "national system" to the "new national system", from "self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology" to "self-reliance and self-improvement in high-level science and technology", the role of the government and the market mechanism have made concerted efforts, high-quality development and high-level safety have been promoted as a whole, and the institutional advantages have been accelerated to the transformation of scientific and technological competition.

2. Strive to chase the waves and the world is wide: prove the truth of thinking in practice

A set of data released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is eye-catching: in the 2023 Global Innovation Index rankings, China ranks 12th, up 18 places from 2010; It is ranked 25th in the sub-index of "Innovation Input" and 8th in the sub-index of "Innovation Output".

Adhering to innovation-led development, the "scientific and technological content" of China's economic development continues to improve, and the "Achilles heel" of the economy is gradually being overcome.

"If scientific and technological innovation is compared to a new engine for the mainland's development, then reform is an indispensable ignition system for igniting this new engine" "One is the wheel of scientific and technological innovation, and the other is the wheel of institutional innovation, and only when the two wheels rotate together can it be conducive to promoting the fundamental transformation of the economic development mode."

General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition has expressed the dialectical unity of productive forces and production relations, and clarified the profound truth that to build a strong country in science and technology, we must insist on deepening reform to stimulate innovation vitality.

Every foundation-laying move is firm, and every long-term strategy has profound implications.

"Several Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Deepening the Reform of Institutional Mechanisms and Accelerating the Implementation of the Innovation-Driven Development Strategy" plans ideas from 8 aspects and 30 fields; The "Implementation Plan for Deepening the Reform of the Science and Technology System" deploys tasks with a clear timetable and roadmap...... The scientific and technological management system has been reshaped, the layout of national strategic scientific and technological forces has been accelerated, and the vitality of innovative subjects and talents has been further released.

Facing the world's frontier of science and technology, with the "asymmetric" strategy to accelerate the "lane change and overtaking" in the frontier field; Facing the main battlefield of the economy, we will lay out an innovation chain that pays equal attention to "making up for shortcomings" and "building long boards"; Facing the major needs of the country, break through more "stuck neck" technical bottlenecks; Facing the people's life and health, increase investment in science and technology and research and development in areas of people's livelihood such as resources and environment, population health, etc...... Adhere to the "four aspects", the whole chain of scientific and technological innovation deployment, the whole field layout.

China has built the world's largest education system, and higher education has entered the stage of universalization recognized by the world. The full-time equivalent of R&D personnel has increased from 3.247 million person-years in 2012 to 6.354 million person-years in 2022, ranking first in the world...... Coordinate the implementation of the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country with talents, and the strategy of innovation-driven development, and promote the development of education, scientific and technological innovation, and talent training in an integrated manner, so that the underlying logic of the development of new productive forces will be opened.

The "Opinions on Further Promoting the Spirit of Scientists and Strengthening the Construction of Work Style and Study Style" were issued, the mechanism of "breaking the four onlys" and "setting new standards" was explored, and the "National Science and Technology Workers Day" was established...... The atmosphere of advocating science and pursuing innovation is becoming stronger and stronger. Kurt · Wittrich, a Nobel laureate in chemistry who came to work in China and has a "Chinese green card", commented: China's scientific research environment is getting better and better, and the balance of choice is constantly tilting here!

3. Stand on the right side of history: Let science and technology better benefit mankind

Across the globe, the cosmopolitan nature of human interaction is deeper and more extensive than ever before, and nations are more interconnected and interdependent than ever before.

"No country can be an independent innovation hub or have a monopoly on innovation. Innovation should benefit the world, not be a treasure buried in a cave. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the right way for scientific and technological innovation and development.

The more complex the international environment, the more open China will be and open its doors:

The Tiangong space station provides a new platform for international space science cooperation; It has established scientific and technological cooperation with more than 160 countries and regions, and jointly built joint laboratories and science and technology parks with countries along the Belt and Road. Actively participate in major scientific programs and projects such as the Earth Observation Organization and the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope......

On the new journey, China and other countries around the world will jointly address challenges such as future development, food security, energy security, human health and climate change, create new technologies, new industries, new business forms and new models in frontier fields such as digital economy, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology, and build new arenas and seek a new future in major scientific fields such as material structure, cosmic evolution, the origin of life and the nature of consciousness.

To be on the right side of history, on the side of human progress. Today's China is not only the China of China, but also the China of the world!

3. The way forward: to provide a correct picture of the world

What kind of era are we in to build a strong country in science and technology?

Extremely macroscopic, extremely microscopic, and extremely comprehensive - scientific research continues to break through the boundaries of human cognition; The scientific and technological revolution and the great power game are intertwined -- the high-tech field has become the main battlefield and the forefront of international competition.

To build a strong country in science and technology, where should we make efforts?

With strong basic research and original innovation capabilities, strong key core technology research capabilities, strong international influence and leadership, strong high-level scientific and technological talent training and agglomeration capabilities, and strong scientific and technological governance systems and governance capabilities - General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly summarized the five basic elements that must be possessed to build a scientific and technological power.

Lenin once said: The purpose of science is to provide a correct picture of the world.

In the future, we should set off again with full enthusiasm and illuminate the world with the light of science and technology!

1. Solve from the source and the bottom

There is an apt statement about the importance of basic research, and that is the insight of Lee Tsung-dao: "Without today's basic science, there will be no tomorrow's scientific and technological applications, and this is a scientific law that cannot be violated." ”

Looking back at history, when "strange" words such as "specific heat" and "latent heat" popped out of the mouth of chemist Blake, Watt was like a treasure - a breakthrough in the basic theory of thermodynamics, the improvement of the steam engine, and the beginning of the first industrial revolution.

The hands swing lightly, Faraday's heart is like a drum, 10 years of silence finally reverberate, and the law of electromagnetic induction is discovered! The generator was born, and the second industrial revolution came.

gazing at the Earth from outer space, thanks to the theory of relativity; Nuclear power plants provide clean energy, which is born out of the self-energy equation...... Breakthroughs in basic disciplines gave birth to the Third Industrial Revolution.

In the face of new opportunities and challenges, Dou Xiankang, director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, wrote bluntly: "The overall level of basic research in the mainland needs to be improved, the original innovation ability needs to be further enhanced, and there are few major original achievements. ”

Mathematics is the foundation of basic science. "For a strong modern country, mathematics must be among the best, and Chinese mathematics has not yet reached the realm of 'originality'!" Qiu Chengtong, director of the Center for Mathematical Sciences at Tsinghua University, judged.

There is also a lack of chemical research in terms of opening up new directions, establishing new theories, and proposing new theories.

The construction of astronomical scientific equipment is still in its infancy, and the influence of papers led by mainland scholars is weak......

If the source and underlying things are not clear, the key core technology will inevitably be controlled by others.

Cosmic Evolution, Structure of Matter, Origin of Life, Brain and Cognition, Future Networks, Deep Sea, Aerospace ...... We need to "create something out of nothing" and achieve "from 0 to 1" in more basic research fields;

Integrated circuits, industrial machine tools, basic software, advanced materials, scientific research instruments, core provenance...... We urgently need to break the bottleneck of key core technologies and make up for the "shortcomings" of innovation.

"How can we work to be worthy of our ancient predecessors, to establish a new mathematics in our new era, and in the near future, to make Eastern mathematics surpass Western mathematics, and to continue to produce problems for the West to do? I think that's something that we all need to think about and work on. "Academician Wu Wenjun's questioning back then is still worthy of today's basic discipline researchers' encouragement!

2. Agglomeration of elements and resources

One ratio, the key - 25%!

If a country's major scientific achievements exceed 25% of the world's total in the same period, it is a world science center.

According to the statistics of Japanese scholars, from the 16th to the 20th century, the world's science center shifted five times: from Italy to United Kingdom, France took over and then transferred to Germany, and then in the 20th century, United States produced more than 60% of the world's important scientific and technological achievements.

What determines the transfer of the World Science Center?

If you have extraordinary merit, you must treat extraordinary people. People are the most critical factor in scientific and technological innovation.

Therefore, we can describe the appearance of the world's science center in this way: the cultivation and agglomeration capacity of high-level scientific and technological talents is increasing day by day, and the international influence and leadership are in full swing.

In contrast, what are China's shortcomings?

According to the "National Innovation Index Report 2022-2023" released by the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology Development Strategy, although the gap between the mainland and the scientific and technological power in terms of innovation resources and innovation environment is narrowing, it should not be underestimated.

According to data released by the Stanford University team in October 2022, there are 78,014 United States in the list of the world's top 2% scientists, accounting for nearly 40%, and 7,795 in China.

To examine ourselves and integrate into the global network of scientific and technological innovation, we must enhance our ability to gather innovation elements and integrate innovation resources.

-- Cultivating and reuniting more innovative talents.

Driven by demand, optimize the discipline setting of colleges and universities, and innovate the talent training model; We will improve the support and guarantee mechanism for the introduction of overseas talents, establish an immigration system for high-tech talents, and "siphon" world-class talents.

-- Make the source of original innovation more realistic.

Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao, Yangtze River Delta, Chengdu-Chongqing and other important regions, with superior geographical locations, good industrial foundations, and excellent innovation environments, should aim at the world's advanced level of scientific and technological innovation to create a global innovation and entrepreneurship highland.

-- Make the circle of friends for scientific and technological cooperation bigger.

We will raise the level of opening up of national science and technology programs to the outside world, encourage Chinese scientists to initiate and organize international science and technology cooperation programs, and distribute "hero posts" to the world, so that innovative ideas can converge in China and sparks of wisdom can burst out in China.

"I have always believed that science should serve the welfare of mankind, and in China, I see the possibility and reality of doing so," said Bernard, an old friend of Joseph Needham and the founder of science, during a visit to China 7......0 years ago, predicting that China would make a contribution to the development of science on a par with that of the West. This scene is just around the corner!

3. Empower innovation with institutions

Some researchers have made statistics on the trend of scientific and technological papers in the 20th century, and the conclusion is intriguing: in more than 100 years, the proportion of papers by single authors has plummeted from 80% to 20%, and more articles come from the collaborative efforts of multiple authors. Especially after the rise of large-scale scientific research teams, the scale of paper authors can even reach hundreds or thousands.

This change reflects a reality: modern scientific and technological innovation requires a talent scale, a systematic mechanism, and long-term, institutionalized, and planned support!

How is China riding this trend?

Rely on institutional reform and innovation ecological support.

Entering the new era, the reform of the mainland's science and technology system has been deepened, and the science and technology policy, education policy, and talent policy have been improved, but there is still a long way to go to benchmark the world's science and technology power.

How to strengthen the main position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation and eliminate the worries of entrepreneurs to devote themselves to innovation?

How to further optimize the salary structure and performance evaluation of scientific researchers, so that innovators can get their own place?

How to open up the channels of science and technology and economic and social development, and continuously improve the overall efficiency of the national innovation system?

"In the reform of the scientific and technological system, we must dare to gnaw hard bones, dare to wade into dangers and difficulties, and break down all ideological obstacles and institutional barriers that restrict scientific and technological innovation." General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out clearly.

-- Declare war on the ideological obstacles that restrict scientific and technological innovation!

To build a strong country in science and technology, it is necessary to encourage researchers to break through conventions, break free from previous research paradigms, and jump out of traditional thinking habits, and to tolerate "heretical theories" on scientific issues, and allow scientists to think freely and make bold assumptions.

-- Showing the sword to the institutional barriers that restrict scientific and technological innovation!

Break down the obstacles of the system and mechanism, and liberate and stimulate the huge potential of science and technology as the primary productive force to the greatest extent with a systematic, scientific, standardized, and effective institutional system.

The boat is more urgent in the middle of the stream, and we are brave in the rapids!

Fourth, the foundation of innovation: use culture to support high-level science and technology self-reliance and self-reliance

Contemplating the ups and downs of history and looking forward to the competition of the world, scientific and technological innovation must be born from the leap of ideology and concepts, and a strong country in science and technology must be rooted in the deep cultural soil.

"Persist in cultivating a culture of innovation, inherit the innovative genes of China's excellent traditional culture, and create a good environment that encourages exploration and tolerates failure, so that advocating science and pursuing innovation will become a common practice in the whole society." General Secretary Xi Jinping's words are firm and powerful.

To cultivate a culture of innovation, it is necessary to trace the history of the Chinese nation and inherit the spirit of the Chinese nation.

To cultivate a culture of innovation, it is necessary to grasp the innovativeness of Marxism in China and accumulate strength in the process of Chinese-style modernization.

To cultivate a culture of innovation, it is necessary to moisten the system with culture, so that the source of innovation can fully flow, so that countless innovative entrepreneurs can strive for the goal of becoming a strong country in science and technology!

1. Roots: Let cultural traditions nourish innovation

The 5,000-year-old civilization of the Chinese nation has continued to this day, and although it has been able to move forward despite dangers, it has continued to move forward through a hundred twists and turns, where does the strong vitality come from?

There is only one word "new": "The Chinese civilization has outstanding innovation, which fundamentally determines the Chinese nation's enterprising spirit of uprightness and respect for the past and not retro, and determines the fearless character of the Chinese nation that is not afraid of new challenges and has the courage to accept new things." ”

The DNA of innovation is embedded in the results of our ideas. The pre-Qin and Han classics, the Wei and Jin metaphysics, the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Song and Ming dynasties, and the Qing Dynasty Puxue outline the grand image of Chinese civilization changing in continuity and innovating in inheritance. Knowledge, the unity of nature and man, taking analogies from images, and skillfully conveying the truth are philosophical ideas and scientific methods.

Innovation is part of our knowledge base. "Qi Min Yaoshu" opened a precedent for Chinese agriculture, "Compendium of Materia Medica" is the culmination of traditional medicine, and "Tiangong Kaiwu" is the essence of production technology...... The formation of traditional systematic knowledge of agriculture, medicine, astronomy and arithmetic is the result of continuous innovation.

Innovation is in the DNA of our technological inventions. Papermaking created a new carrier of human civilization, printing started a new path of cultural transmission, gunpowder "blew the knight class to pieces" in Europe, and the compass contributed to the advent of the Age of Discovery, promoting the process of "history becoming world history"!

View cultural creation, the river and Han are splendid; Looking at technological innovation, there are thousands of things.

For more than 100 years, our party has injected the light of Marxist truth into the roots of China's excellent traditional culture, injected the great spirit and rich wisdom of the Chinese nation into Marxism at a deeper level, and the innovative genes of Chinese civilization have become more and more distinctly displayed in contemporary China's scientific and technological innovation.

The idea of "reform and innovation" is internalized in the design of the reform of the scientific and technological system; The spirit of "life is easy" inspires the practice of scientific and technological research; The wisdom of "the way of all benefits, walking with the times" cultivates a fine style of study...... The rapid progress of science and technology is guided by the core values of socialism, the infusion of humanistic spirit, and the norms of ethics and morality.

The source is clear and the waves are broad, and the innovative culture of the new era will surely become a river of living water from the past to the present!

2. There is a book to stand: let the spirit of the times guide innovation

The Communist Party of China, the most reliable backbone of its great achievements, is an advanced political force that "dares to say new things that have not been said by predecessors and dare to do things that have not been done by predecessors";

Marxism, a powerful ideological weapon for understanding and transforming the world, is a scientific truth that "develops along with changes in practice."

How can it be ambitious to build a scientific and technological power?

Fundamentally speaking, it is precisely because the largest political party in the world has used the constantly developing Marxism to provide a solid support for the cultivation of an innovative culture and open up a lofty ideological space.

When the thought and practice of an era reach a new realm, innovation is inevitable!

——Chinese concept, new!

From the call of "striving to quickly catch up with the advanced level of science in the world" and other calls are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, to the proposition that "science and technology are the primary productive forces" to solve the ideological difficulties, and then to the assertions that "science and technology are the primary productive forces, talent is the first resource, and innovation is the first driving force" and other arguments to answer the questions of development...... Only when the Chinese concept is purified can the innovative vitality fully flow.

- Chinese plan, excellent!

When the traditional momentum of development is weakening, China, which implements the innovation-driven development strategy, is achieving quality, efficiency and sustainable development. When the resource crisis has become the biggest threat to mankind, China, which adheres to the new development concept, has become a leader in the construction of global ecological civilization. When the world economy recovers sluggishly, the development of new quality productivity in China, emerging industries are flourishing, and future industries are sprouting new shoots...... This is a vivid portrayal of the implementation of innovation culture in practice.

- China's power, strong!

Man is the "playwright" of history, and he is also the "man in the play" of history. The world's longest bridge, the fastest railway, the busiest port, how many new people of the era who dare to challenge and dare to fight, dare to dream and dare to realize their dreams; In the process of scientific and technological development from following to running and leading, how many warriors have broken the "stuck neck"...... Chinese people who have mastered new knowledge, new methods and new ideas have converged into the sea!

The innovative culture of the new era is bound to provide endless nourishment for activating the potential of science and technology!

3. There are rules to follow: let the cultural infiltration system stimulate innovation

Cultural infiltration makes the system powerful.

The Chinese nation's open-minded and inclusive mind, and the choice of righteousness and benefit based on the interests of the world, are the cultural accumulation of the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and help scientific and technological innovation cooperation become a shining business card of the "Belt and Road".

The profound tradition of patriotism and collectivism in Chinese society has injected value support into the new national system, and the institutional advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics in concentrating on major affairs have become more and more prominent.

The spirit of "two bombs and one satellite" and the spirit of manned spaceflight have been passed down from generation to generation, and the confidence and courage of Chinese to take the road of independent innovation have been strengthened, injecting surging momentum into the improvement of the independent innovation system and mechanism......

The system is standardized to help the concept land.

The National Science and Technology Ethics Committee was established, and the "Opinions on Strengthening the Governance of Science and Technology Ethics" were issued to shape the cultural concept and guarantee mechanism of science and technology for good, and the scientific spirit and humanistic spirit complement each other;

The implementation of the "unveiling the leader" and "horse racing" system for major scientific research tasks has given scientists greater power to decide on technical routes, the right to dispose of funds, and the right to dispatch resources, and the innovative spirit of thousands of seekers has been stimulated;

Actions to improve the scientific quality of young people, farmers, industrial workers and other groups have been carried out steadily, the supply-side reform of popular science has been deepened, and the "scientific spiritual temperament" of the whole society has been rich......

With the cultural system and the system to promote governance, the innovative culture of the new era will surely make our institutional advantages open and strong!

Looking at history today, it is difficult to imagine that China has come from the backwardness of modern times.

Looking back at history and looking at today, who would have thought that this is the glorious future of an ancient nation?!

The first industrial revolution occurred, and the Qing Dynasty bureaucracy was complacent with "preferring to seek everything rather than open it"; With the advent of the second industrial revolution, people of insight in China are crying bitterly that "the people are ashamed of 400 trillion"; The third tide of scientific and technological revolution is surging, and New China has just experienced the process of standing up and becoming rich. Today, the fourth scientific and technological revolution has begun, and the United Kingdom's "Economist" published an article saying that from plant biology, artificial intelligence to superconducting physics and other fields, China is at the forefront of research and "has become a scientific superpower."

Yes, this nation of "renewal of its destiny" is in an era of innovation!

Guangming Daily (October 16, 2024 01 edition)

Source: Guangming Net-Guangming Daily