Building a powerful country through science and technology is the most touching poem in the epic of national rejuvenation.
She held high the scientific torch lit by the May 4th New Culture Movement, and let the rational brilliance of modern science spread all over the land of China, illuminating the spiritual world of several generations of Chinese people.
She has continued the Chinese tradition of seeking knowledge through things for thousands of years, making the ancient civilization full of beautiful poems glow with dazzling brilliance, and deducing earth-shaking innovative legends.
She has a broad mind to help the world, the United States and the United States, so that modern scientific and technological achievements can better benefit the people of all countries and play the international symphony of scientific and technological cooperation.
She is the great the Communist Party of China (CPC). The century is splendid, and Wan Li has splendid rivers and mountains. The Chinese people are led by the Party to write a magnificent epic of national rejuvenation, and building a powerful country through science and technology is undoubtedly one of the most touching poems.
Scientific and technological achievements shine in history.
At this moment, about 400 million kilometers away, on the Utopia Plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars, the "Zhu Rong" rover, like an elf, is looking at the mysterious planet with wide eyes. As the messenger of the earth, "Zhu Rong" is the crystallization of the long-term efforts of the vast number of scientific and technological workers led by the Communist Party of China (CPC). It has crossed the vast interstellar space and achieved a wonderful story of human space exploration with the amazing "three-in-one". It goes through the historical dust and wonderfully interprets the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s initial intention of persistently promoting saving the country through science, strengthening the country through science and technology, rejuvenating the country through science and education, and promoting the exploration of new knowledge for the benefit of the country, the nation, the people and all mankind.
"Take the scientific principle that everything is prosperous, everything is fine, and nothing is sued, so as to determine its gains and losses." Li Dazhao, a revolutionary pioneer, once firmly expounded the Communist Party of China (CPC) people’s view of science, which is also the clank oath to sharpen the scientific spirit when the century-old Party started. With the passage of time, it has been sublimated in the practice of revolution, construction and reform, and the innovative vitality inspired by it has gathered from a trickle into a surging river.
The result of innovation is the blossoming waves of this surging river.
In the revolutionary war years, this wave was the Red Army’s "Military Maintenance Institute", the Red Army Military Medical School, the Central Telephone Office, the radio training class, the Yan ‘an Academy of Natural Sciences and its predecessor, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Natural Science Research Association, and the Yan ‘an Science Museum & HELIP; …
After the founding of New China, this wave is a series of "super projects" and a batch of "great powers and heavy weapons".
"A bridge flies north and south, and Tianzhu becomes a thoroughfare." On October 15th, 1957, the first super-large highway and railway bridge independently designed and built by China — — Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge opens to traffic. About 60 years later, the length and construction difficulty are unprecedented in the world, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge with the world’s top construction technology is opened to traffic. Since the successful explosion of the first atomic bomb in 1964, China has successively developed hydrogen bombs and successfully launched artificial satellites in just six years, greatly enhancing its international status. On July 1, 2006, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway across the "roof of the world" was opened to traffic. In 2009, the largest hydropower station in the world — — The Three Gorges Hydropower Station has been completed. The South-to-North Water Transfer Project is the largest water transfer project in the world. On December 12, 2014, the first phase of the project was officially opened to water … …
In addition to the Zhu Rong, there are also the Yutu lunar rover, the Beidou constellation, the Fengyun constellation and the Tiangong space station, which are in full swing, pushing China to stride towards the world space power. In the air, China’s big plane "Three Musketeers" — — Large passenger aircraft, large transport aircraft and large amphibious aircraft have been successfully put into use in parallel or are making final preparations for application. On the ground, China high-speed rail has realized the revolution of Chinese people’s travel. The third generation nuclear power technology and equipment "Hualong No.1" and "Guohe No.1" are accelerating the "greening" of China’s energy structure. On the sea, the polar icebreaker "Snow Dragon 2" and the large dredger "Tiankun" occupy a place in their respective fields. In the deep sea, the scientific research equipment such as Jiaolong, Struggler and Hidden Dragon realized the dream of Chinese people to enter the deep sea and explore the deep blue … …
Science and technology strategy is far-sighted
"Insist on the core position of innovation in the overall situation of China’s modernization, regard self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology as the strategic support for national development, face the world’s scientific and technological frontier, face the major needs of the country, and face people’s lives and health, and thoroughly implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education … …” This is the strategic judgment and choice made by the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee in 2020 on the development of science and technology in China. After deliberation and approval at the Fourth Session of the 13th National People’s Congress held several months later, these contents have become an important part of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the outline of the long-term goals in 2035, and have risen to the national will to put them into practice.
In the glorious course of revolution, construction and reform led by our party, seeking truth from facts, sizing up the situation, and making and implementing a series of major scientific and technological policies with foresight are important guarantees for the success of China’s scientific and technological undertakings.
During the Yan ‘an period, our party put forward the idea of "crushing the enemy’s blockade with natural science", formulated and implemented the strategy of scientific and technological development oriented to the great cause of resisting Japan and saving the nation and scientific and technological research oriented to the economic construction in the border areas, and insisted on the combination of science and technology with military struggle, the great cause of resisting Japan and the production of workers and peasants. The labor productivity in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region has been greatly improved, which has laid a material foundation for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and accumulated experience in leading scientific and technological undertakings for the Party.
In the face of the international situation after the founding of New China and the emerging wave of science and technology in the world, our party has formulated and implemented the strategy of giving priority to the development of cutting-edge science and technology related to heavy industry and national defense, successively promoted the 12-year science and technology development plan and the 10-year science and technology development plan, constructed the industrialization foundation and science and technology foundation, and produced outstanding achievements such as "two bombs and one satellite".
After the reform and opening-up, the Party’s scientific and technological development strategy shifted to serving the center of socialist economic construction, and issued and implemented the Decision on the Reform of Science and Technology System, the Decision on Accelerating the Progress of Science and Technology, and the outline of the national medium-and long-term scientific and technological development plan, sticking to the road of independent innovation with China characteristics and building an innovative country.
In the new era, the Party leads the vast number of scientific and technological workers to vigorously implement the innovation-driven development strategy. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee clearly put "innovation" at the top of the new development concept leading China’s medium and long-term development, and then the Outline of National Innovation-Driven Development Strategy was designed at the top level and planned systematically. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasizes that innovation is the first driving force for development and the strategic support for building a modern economic system, which requires speeding up the construction of an innovative country and making systematic planning and deployment from the height of national strategy.
At the historical intersection of the goal of "two hundred years" and the important moment of starting a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made a profound explanation on speeding up the construction of a powerful country in science and technology, striving to achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and participation in global scientific and technological governance, and making China’s science and technology make greater contributions to promoting the building of a community of human destiny, thus charting the direction and path for China to promote innovation in the new era.
Heroes of scientific and technological talents come forth in large numbers
Melodious orchestral strings echoed with the clanging of bells and drums, and a big river winding in the boundless smoke and clouds gradually became clear. Then, radio telescope arrays looked up at the sky, several planes soared above the white clouds like eagles, high-speed trains flew in the wilderness, and huge ships chopped waves … … Finally, the bright night sky shines with such bright stars as Qian Xuesen, Yuan Longping, Nanrendong and Wu Mengchao, and the eight golden characters "Pay tribute to innovative climbers" are fixed on the screen. This is a MV called "Ask the Vast Earth", which has been widely circulated on the Internet recently, expressing people’s reverence for scientific and technological talents. Under the leadership of the Party, they used wisdom, sweat, even blood and life to write a glorious chapter for the country’s prosperity, national rejuvenation and people’s happiness.
During the revolutionary war years, the red scientific and technological workers led by the Party stood the test of blood and fire. During the Agrarian Revolution, scientific and technological talents represented by Li Qiang, Zhang Shenchuan, He Cheng and Fu Lianzhang risked their lives and overcame many difficulties to establish the Party’s radio communication station and the Red Army medical institutions. In Yan ‘an, the scientific and technological undertakings led by the Party have further developed, and a number of representatives have emerged, including chemical experts Qian Zhidao and Li Su, ordnance experts Liu Ding and Wu Yunduo, mechanical engineering experts Shen Hong, metallurgical engineering technology experts Lu Da and so on. They participated in promoting the historical process of China revolution with scientific and technological innovation.
The major scientific and technological projects implemented after the founding of New China, especially the "two bombs and one satellite" project, have brought together a large number of scientific and technological heroes, including overseas scholars such as Qian Xuesen, Deng Jiaxian, Zhao Jiuzhang, Zhu Guangya, Wang Ganchang, Guo Yonghuai, Cheng Kaijia, Yang Jiachi, Chen Fangyun, Zhou Guangzhao and Wang Xiji, as well as talents cultivated in China such as Yu Min and Qian Ji. They made great contributions to the country, responded to the call of the party and the country with deep feelings of home and country, and devoted themselves to this sacred and great cause without hesitation. In addition, scientific research teams such as Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University, which realized the artificial synthesis of bovine insulin, and scientists such as Tu Youyou, who successfully extracted artemisinin, won people’s admiration.
Since the reform and opening up, especially in the new era, the innovation vitality of scientific and technological workers has been increasing day by day, and the fields where major breakthroughs have been made have been continuously expanded, which can be described as all-round flowering and shining stars. The scientific and technological hero who won the title of "pioneer of reform" at the celebration of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up is undoubtedly one of the outstanding representatives. Among them are Wang Daheng, Sun Jiadong, Yu Min, Yuan Longping, Tu Youyou, Cheng Kaijia, Wu Liangyong and other scientists of the older generation, as well as young and middle-aged scientific and technological forces, including Jing Haipeng, a heroic astronaut who made three rounds in the sky, Ye Cong, a practitioner of manned deep diving, Ma Huateng, an explorer of the "internet plus" operation, and Li Yanhong &hellip, an outstanding representative of returnees who started their business and returned to the country to promote scientific and technological innovation; … In the last two years, with the completion of the Beidou-3 global system and the acceleration of the construction of the space station, more and younger scientific and technological talents, including those in the aerospace field, have emerged and become the new pride of scientific and technological innovation in the new era.
Scientific and technological cooperation is mutually beneficial and win-win
"I am very happy that we European astronauts can train in China and cooperate well and smoothly with China astronauts." Samantha Christopher, an Italian female astronaut, introduced her experience of training in China to the media in standard Mandarin Chinese. Like Christopher, there are several European astronauts who study Chinese hard. They and their international counterparts see new opportunities to explore space from the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s policy of opening up and cooperation with foreign countries in science and technology. In May 2018, the "Announcement Ceremony of International Cooperation Opportunities for China Space Station" was held at the United Nations Office at Vienna, inviting public and private institutions of all United Nations Member States to submit applications for participating in China Space Station cooperation projects. In the end, 9 projects from 17 countries including Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Italy, Norway and Kenya were successfully selected. Our party’s policy of actively opening up cooperation in foreign science and technology has won praise from the international community.
Science and technology is a powerful weapon for human beings to understand and transform the world. It is the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s consistent policy to carry out international cooperation and exchanges in science and technology so that people all over the world, including the people of China, can fully benefit from the development of modern science and technology.
Cultivating scientific and technological talents through studying abroad is one of the important ways of international scientific and technological cooperation. As early as the Agrarian Revolution, our party sent personnel to the Soviet Union to study radio communication technology many times. During the Yan ‘an period and after the founding of New China, our party sent more overseas students to the Soviet Union and other countries to learn much-needed scientific and technological knowledge. After the reform and opening up, two-way study abroad has promoted the continuous development of scientific and technological personnel training, and international students have become an important force to promote scientific and technological innovation at home and abroad.
Since the reform and opening up, under the guidance of the Party’s foreign scientific and technological cooperation policy, bilateral and multilateral scientific and technological cooperation has continuously reached a new level. By September, 2020, China has established scientific and technological cooperation relations with more than 160 countries and regions, signed more than 110 scientific and technological cooperation agreements, and participated in more than 200 intergovernmental scientific and technological international organizations, multilateral mechanisms and international major scientific projects, including the International Ocean Discovery Project, the Human Genome Project and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Project. At the same time, China has initiated the construction of a number of major national scientific and technological infrastructures, such as synchrotron radiation light source, fully superconducting tokmak nuclear fusion experimental device and 500-meter spherical radio telescope, and actively explored international cooperation with China as the mainstay.
It is particularly worth mentioning that in the new era, our party holds high the banner of deepening international scientific and technological cooperation and building a community of human destiny and has formulated a series of policies. Accordingly, China has implemented the national key research and development plan "strategic international scientific and technological innovation cooperation", and in recent years has implemented a number of projects involving global challenges such as climate change, public health, disaster prevention and mitigation, making outstanding contributions to promoting the UN’s sustainable development agenda in 2030 and benefiting all mankind.
A hundred years of brilliance, the century is in full bloom. Sustainable innovation is the youth password of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a century-old party, and self-improvement is the source of vitality of the Chinese nation. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the vast number of scientific and technological workers are working hard to speed up the construction of a strong country in science and technology and realize high-level scientific and technological self-reliance; To realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; Strive to build a community of human destiny. (Reporter Zhang Baoshu and Liu Wei)
Original title: Century Science and Technology Innovation Century Fanghua
People’s Daily Overseas Edition (08th Edition, July 1, 2021)