Science and technology flourishes and nations are stronger. At the symposium on strengthening basic research, the secretary-general, xi, from a strategic perspective, analysed the new challenges facing the new situation in a comprehensive manner and stressed that “we need to seize the opportunities and address the challenges” “to strengthen basic research with greater vigour and effectiveness”。
“the importance of original subversive innovation has become more and more evident at the moment as a new wave of technological revolutions and industrial transformations accelerates breakthroughs, and global competition for science and technology becomes more focused on the frontier areas.”
In terms of opportunities, the world has entered the great age of science, technological innovation has entered an unprecedented period of intense activity, and scientific research continues to break the boundaries of human awareness. Our basic research has entered an accelerated phase of high-quality development, with the historic leap from “back and forth” to “lead” in some areas。
In the light of the challenges, the world's century-old dramatic changes are accelerating, the technological revolution is intertwined with big players, and competition for new technologies has intensified. Although there has been significant progress in basic research in our country, there have been few major original results, and there is still a gap between the original innovation capacity and the objective of building a technological power。
In order to take advantage of the opportunities and challenges, it is essential to follow up on the strategic deployments of secretary-general xi's basic research work, building on the “fifty-five” critical phase of the technological power-building effort to sustain the research effort and generate new results。
“to enhance integrated planning and top-level design and optimize the layout of the basic research system”, the important deployment of general secretary xi jinping has revealed the inherent patterns and imperatives of basic research。
Basic research is long-term, difficult and uncertain and requires scientific planning and a holistic approach. Since the beginning of the new era, basic research in our country has continued to take a new step, an important reason being good institutions, value-driven policies and strategic pull. A strategic, forward-looking and systematic approach to basic research, taking stock of trends and putting in place a “first hand”, will provide a solid guarantee for achieving more “0-1” breakthroughs。
In the development of science and technology in the new era, our party has been deepening its regularity and has accumulated a number of important lessons, one of which is to maintain a “four-oriented” strategic orientation, strengthen the deployment of the entire science, technology and innovation chain, spread across the entire spectrum, and enhance the overall capacity of science and technology and innovation. The goal-oriented and free exploration of “two-legged”, combining the world's scientific and technological frontier with the country's major strategic needs and economic and social development goals, sharpening the major scientific and technological issues from the national strategic needs, further clarifying the main thrust and focus areas of basic research, and optimizing the allocation and configuration of resources, will make it possible to move steadily towards high-quality basic research development。
Strengthening basic research, strengthening national strategic science and technology and enhancing the overall effectiveness of national innovation systems are key. The man-made sun has created a world record of “billion degrees per thousand seconds”, behind which several generations of scientists from the institute of fertilizer science of the chinese academy of sciences have been constantly exploring; our battery technology has been able to lead the world in terms of efficient and synergistic innovation in research institutes, colleges and enterprises. Practice shows that the more important the projects and topics of basic research, the more important it is to strengthen the leading role of national scientific institutions, high-level research universities, etc. It is necessary to encourage and regulate the development of new types of research and development institutions in the context of scientific and technological development and national strategic needs, to promote the deeper integration of enterprise-led research and development in production, to establish the innovation chain of basic research, application development and transformation of results, to strengthen the building of basic disciplines and to promote the coordinated development of applied and basic disciplines, building on the foundations of continuous breakthroughs in research and long-term development of science, technology and innovation。
Throughout the history of scientific and technological development, almost all major scientific and technological changes have resulted from breakthroughs in basic research, on which the global scientific and technological power has relied. “to be strong and resilient, china must vigorously develop science and technology and strive to become the world's leading scientific centre and innovation high ground.” we need to anchor our efforts, increase our sense of urgency, responsibility and purpose, effectively put basic research on the agenda and win the initiative in seizing opportunities and addressing challenges。
