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China's network live broadcast on August 19 News The State Council Information Office held a regular briefing on State Council policies at 3 p.m. today, and Ou Wenhan, assistant minister of finance, introduced the "Several Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Reforming and Improving the Management of Central Financial Research Funds" and answered reporters' questions. The following is a transcript of the relevant content:
China Daily reporter:
We know that talent is the core element of scientific and technological innovation, compared with before, the reform of this management measures in terms of increasing the incentive of scientific research personnel in scientific research projects, please introduce thank you.
Owenham:
This is a very good question, and it is also a very concerned problem for researchers. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that to make good use of scientific researchers, it is necessary to use the cause to stimulate their courage and perseverance to innovate, but also to attach importance to the necessary material incentives. The scientific researchers of universities, institutes and other units are an important scientific research force in China and the "mainstay" of the implementation of innovation-driven development strategies. These scientific researchers undertake a large number of national scientific research projects, and reasonable compensation for the intellectual labor they have paid in the projects is conducive to stimulating the enthusiasm of scientific researchers.
At present, there are two main expenditures on "people" in scientific research project funds. One is the "labor fee", which is used to hire researchers for projects that do not have a salary income, etc., and there is no proportional limit. The other is "performance expenditure", which is used to motivate researchers and is arranged by the unit in the indirect cost. However, there are still problems such as the low proportion of indirect costs and limited incentives. In view of these problems, this time the "Several Opinions" played a "combination fist" to encourage scientific research personnel and officials to start a business.
First of all, in terms of funding sources, it is necessary to achieve "money can be issued".
The first is to increase the proportion of overhead costs. For those below 5 million yuan, the proportion of indirect expenses increased from no more than 20% to 30%, the part from 5 million yuan to 10 million yuan increased from no more than 15% to 25%, and the part above 10 million yuan increased from no more than 13% to 20%; for pure theoretical basic research projects such as mathematics, the proportion of indirect expenses was further increased to no more than 60%. Project undertakers can spend all of their overhead costs on performance expenses and favor teams and individuals with outstanding innovation performance.
The second is to expand the scope of the pilot project of withdrawing incentive funds from the stable support for scientific research funds, and the pilot units have been expanded from some research institutes affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences to all central-level scientific research institutes, and the scope of scientific research funds has also been added on the basis of basic scientific research business expenses and the special funds for strategic leading science and technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The third is to increase the incentive for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, emphasizing that the income from the transformation of scientific and technological achievements should be rewarded and rewarded to those who have completed their scientific and technological achievements and made important contributions to the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
Secondly, in terms of the scope of use of funds, it is necessary to realize that "money should be issued". The "Several Opinions" expands the scope of labor cost expenditure, and includes the housing provident fund of project personnel in the labor cost account, that is to say, the "five insurances and one gold" of the personnel hired by scientific research projects can be paid from scientific research funds.
Third, in the management of the total amount of performance wages, to prevent "money can not be issued." The performance wage level of central colleges and universities, scientific research institutes, and enterprises shall be dynamically adjusted, and shall be reported to the human resources and social security department and the financial department for the record after examination and approval by the competent department. When central colleges and universities, scientific research institutes, and enterprises distribute performance wages, they should give preference to scientific research personnel who undertake more national scientific research tasks and have outstanding results, and explore the implementation of an annual salary system for a very small number of high-level talents who are urgently needed, recognized by the industry, and have outstanding performance. We have preliminarily calculated that through the above incentive measures, the cost of "people" in the funds of scientific research projects can reach more than 50%, and the incentive for scientific researchers is unprecedented. Thank you!