Learn from Xi Jinping's speech 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 Chinese Academy of Sciences

The National Science and Technology Conference, the National Science and Technology Award Conference, the 21st Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the 17th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering were grandly held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission attended the conference and delivered an important speech. The original text reads as follows:

This conference is a grand scientific and technological event held during the critical period of comprehensively promoting the building of a powerful country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization. First of all, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, I would like to extend my warm congratulations to the collectives and individuals who have won the 2023 National Science and Technology Awards! I would like to extend my sincere greetings to the academicians of the two academies and the vast number of scientific and technological workers! A warm welcome to the foreign academicians and friends of the international scientific community!

If science and technology prosper, the nation will prosper, and if science and technology are strong, the country will be strong. Our party has always attached great importance to the development of science and technology. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has deeply promoted the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, proposed the strategic task of accelerating the construction of an innovative country, established the goal of building a scientific and technological power by 2035, continuously deepened the reform of the scientific and technological system, and fully stimulated the enthusiasm and initiative of scientific and technological personnel., Creativity, vigorously promote the self-reliance of science and technology, and my country's science and technology have made historic achievements and historic changes. New breakthroughs have been made in basic frontier research, and a number of major original achievements have been made in the fields of quantum science and technology, life science, material science, space science, and so on. The two core conjectures of differential geometry have been successfully proved. Small chemical molecules induce human cells to reprogram, and carbon dioxide synthetic starch to realize "technological creation". The strategic high-tech field ushered in a new leap. "Chang'e" took the moon, "Tianhe" stationed in the air, "Tianwen" explored fire, "Crust One" advanced into the depths of the earth, and the "Struggler" explored the deep sea of 10,000 meters. The world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant was put into commercial operation. Innovation-driven high-quality development has achieved new results, emerging industries such as integrated circuits and artificial intelligence have flourished, the first 6G satellite has been successfully launched, Beidou navigation has provided global precision services, domestic large aircraft have realized commercial flight, high-speed rail technology has set an international benchmark, new energy vehicles have added new impetus to the global automobile industry, and biological breeding, new drug creation and green low-carbon technology have helped food security and the construction of a healthy and beautiful China. The reform of the science and technology system has opened up a new situation, the science and technology management system has been reshaped, the national strategic science and technology forces have been accelerated, and the vitality of innovation subjects and talents has been further released. New progress has been made in international open cooperation, the initiative to launch international scientific and technological cooperation initiatives, and the leading organization of international large-scale scientific programs. my country's influence as an important pole of global innovation has continued to increase. All these have laid a solid foundation for building a powerful country in science and technology.

In the practice of the development of science and technology in the new era, we have continuously deepened our understanding of regularity and accumulated a lot of important experience. The main points are: adhere to the party's overall leadership, strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over scientific and technological work, observe the general trend, seek the overall situation, and grasp the fundamentals, so as to ensure that the development of scientific and technological undertakings always advances in the right direction. Adhere to the path of independent innovation with Chinese characteristics, based on self-reliance and hard work, give full play to the advantages of my country's socialist system in concentrating power to do major tasks, promote high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, and firmly grasp the lifeline of science and technology and the initiative of development in their own hands. Adhere to innovation to lead development, establish the concept that grasping innovation is grasping development, and seeking innovation is seeking the future, and use technological innovation to lead high-quality development and ensure high-level security. Adhere to the strategic orientation of the "four orientations", face the frontiers of world science and technology, the main economic battlefield, the major needs of the country, and the lives and health of the people, strengthen the deployment of the entire chain of scientific and technological innovation, the layout of the entire field, and comprehensively enhance scientific and technological strength and innovation capabilities. Persist in deepening reforms to stimulate innovation vitality, resolutely remove the ideological concepts and institutional barriers that restrict technological innovation, and effectively transform institutional advantages into technological competitive advantages. We will persist in promoting a virtuous circle of educational, scientific and technological talents, and comprehensively implement 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, so as to promote educational development, scientific and technological innovation, and personnel training. Persist in cultivating an innovative culture, inherit the innovative genes of Chinese excellent traditional culture, and create a good environment that encourages exploration and tolerates failure, so that advocating science and pursuing innovation have become common practice in the whole society. We will persist in opening up and cooperation in science and technology for the benefit of mankind, pursue a win-win strategy of opening up, and contribute Chinese wisdom and strength to meeting global challenges and promoting human development and progress. These experiences are invaluable and must be adhered to for a long time and continuously enriched and developed in practice.

At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are developing in depth. Scientific research to the extreme macro expansion, to the extreme micro-depth, to extreme conditions, to the extreme comprehensive cross-force, and constantly break through the boundaries of human cognition. Technological innovation has entered an unprecedented period of intensive activity, and cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum technology and biotechnology have emerged in a concentrated manner, triggering chain change. At the same time, the world's unprecedented changes in a century have accelerated their evolution. The scientific and technological revolution and the game of great powers are intertwined. The high-tech field has become the forefront and main battlefield of international competition, profoundly reshaping the global order and development pattern. Although the development of science and technology in China has made great progress, the original innovation ability is still relatively weak, some key core technologies are controlled by others, and there is a shortage of top scientific and technological talents. We must further enhance the sense of urgency, further increase the intensity of scientific and technological innovation, and seize the commanding heights of scientific and technological competition and future development.

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has clearly defined the central task of comprehensively promoting the construction of a powerful country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization. Chinese-style modernization depends on the support of scientific and technological modernization, and the realization of high-quality development depends on scientific and technological innovation to cultivate new kinetic energy. We must fully understand the strategic leading position and fundamental supporting role of science and technology, anchor the strategic goal of building a science and technology power by 2035, strengthen top-level design and overall planning, and accelerate the realization of high-level science and technology self-reliance.

The scientific and technological power we want to build should have the scientific and technological strength and innovation ability in the forefront of the world, support the overall leap of economic strength, national defense strength and comprehensive national strength, enhance human well-being and promote global development. The following basic elements must be possessed: First, it has strong basic research and original innovation capabilities, and continues to produce major original and disruptive scientific and technological achievements. Second, it has a strong ability to tackle key core technologies, which strongly supports high-quality development and high-level safety. Third, it has strong international influence and leadership, and has become an important scientific center and innovation highland in the world. Fourth, it has a strong ability to train and gather high-level scientific and technological talents, and constantly strengthen the team of international top scientific and technological talents and the national strategic scientific and technological strength. Fifth, it has a strong science and technology governance system and governance capacity to form a world-class innovation ecology and scientific research environment.

It is now only 11 years away from achieving the goal of building a scientific and technological power. With the firm determination and indomitable will of "sharpening a sword in ten years", we should seize the day and work hard to turn this strategic goal into reality step by step.

First, give full play to the advantages of the new national system and accelerate the promotion of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. It is necessary to improve the system of centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over scientific and technological work, strengthen the overall planning of strategic planning, policy measures, major tasks, scientific research forces, resource platforms, and regional innovation, build a coordinated and efficient decision-making command system and organization and implementation system, and consolidate and promote The powerful synergy of technological innovation. It is necessary to give full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of scientific and technological resources, give better play to the role of the government in all aspects, mobilize the enthusiasm of all links of industry, university and research, and form a work pattern of jointly promoting key core technologies. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of national strategic scientific and technological forces, optimize the positioning and layout, improve the national laboratory system, and enhance the integration capacity of the national innovation system. It is necessary to maintain strategic determination, insist on doing something and not doing something, highlight national strategic needs, implement scientific and technological strategic deployments in a number of important areas, condense the implementation of a number of new major scientific and technological projects, form competitive advantages, and win strategic initiative. It is necessary to improve the degree of organization of basic research, improve the input mechanism that combines competitive support and stable support, strengthen collaborative research on major scientific issues, and at the same time encourage free exploration, strive to propose original basic theories, master the underlying technical principles, and build a solid foundation for scientific and technological innovation. And base.

Second, we will firmly promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation to help develop new quality productivity. The basis of integration is to increase the supply of high-quality science and technology. It is necessary to focus on the key areas and weak links in the construction of a modern industrial system, and increase technological research and development in response to bottlenecks such as integrated circuits, industrial mother machines, basic software, advanced materials, scientific research instruments, and core provenances, in order to ensure the independence of the supply chain of important industrial chains. Safe and controllable to provide scientific and technological support. It is necessary to aim at the commanding heights of future technology and industrial development, accelerate technological innovation in the fields of new generation information technology, artificial intelligence, quantum technology, biotechnology, new energy, and new materials, and cultivate and develop emerging industries and future industries. It is necessary to actively use new technologies to transform and upgrade traditional industries, and promote high-end, intelligent, and green industries.

The key to integration is to strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation. We should give full play to the leading role of leading enterprises in science and technology, encourage scientific and technological innovation of small and medium-sized enterprises and private enterprises, and support enterprises to take the lead or participate in major national science and technology projects. It is necessary to guide enterprises to cooperate closely with universities and scientific research institutions, jointly refine scientific and technological issues, jointly carry out scientific research, coordinate the training of scientific and technological talents, and promote enterprise-led industry-university-research integration and innovation.

The way of integration is to promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements. Relying on the advantages of my country's industrial foundation and super-large-scale market advantages, we must strengthen the construction of the national technology transfer system, improve policy support and market services, promote the promotion and application of independent research products and iterative upgrades, so that more scientific and technological achievements will be transformed from samples to products and industries. We should do a good job in this article on science and technology finance, and guide financial capital to invest early, small, long-term and hard technology.

Third, comprehensively deepen the reform of the scientific and technological system and mechanism, and fully stimulate innovation and creativity. We should adhere to the combination of goal orientation and problem orientation, deepen the reform of science and technology management system, coordinate the construction of various innovation platforms, and strengthen the overall planning and strength organization of innovation resources. Improve the layout of regional scientific and technological innovation, strengthen the central and local coordination and linkage, and create an innovation highland with global influence. It is necessary to improve the management of science and technology plans, deepen the reform of the mechanism for the allocation and management of science and technology funds, give scientific research units and researchers greater autonomy, and enhance the efficiency of investment in scientific and technological innovation.

In recent years, positive progress has been made in loosening the burden of scientific research personnel, but many scientific research personnel have reported that various non-academic burdens are still heavy. We should adhere to the combination of "breaking the four only" and "establishing new standards", and accelerate the improvement of the classification evaluation system and assessment mechanism in line with the law of scientific research activities. It is necessary to improve the incentive system of science and technology awards, income distribution, and achievement empowerment, so that more outstanding talents can get reasonable returns and release innovative vitality. It is necessary to continue to rectify the trend of excessive "hats" and "brands", so that scientific researchers have no distractions and devote themselves to research, and effectively reduce distractions and distractions for reporting projects, issuing papers, evaluating rewards, and competing for resources.

Fourth, promote the development of education, science and technology talents as a whole, and build a competitive advantage for talents. Scientific and technological innovation depends on talents, talent training depends on education, education, science and technology, talents are internally consistent and mutually supportive. It is necessary to strengthen the concept of the system, deepen the reform of the system and mechanism of educational, scientific and technological talents, improve the cooperative education mechanism of science and education, and speed up the cultivation of a large-scale, reasonable structure, and high-quality innovative talent team.

At present, the structural contradiction between the supply and demand mismatch between talent training and scientific and technological innovation in China is more prominent. We should adhere to the demand for scientific and technological innovation, optimize the discipline setting of colleges and universities, innovate the training mode of talents, and effectively improve the level and quality of independent training of talents. It is necessary to speed up the construction of national strategic talents as the top priority, strive to train and bring up strategic scientists, first-class scientific and technological leaders, and innovative teams, and strive to train and bring up outstanding engineers, craftsmen of big countries, and highly skilled personnel. It is necessary to highlight the strengthening of the training of young scientific and technological talents, fully trust them, use them freely, carefully guide them, and care enthusiastically, so as to promote more young top-notch talents to stand out.

It is necessary to implement a more active, more open, and more effective talent policy, accelerate the formation of an internationally competitive talent system, and build an innovative highland that gathers global smart resources.

The growth and development of talents cannot be separated from the nourishment of innovative cultural soil. It is necessary to continue to create a social atmosphere that respects labor, knowledge, talents, and creativity, vigorously promote the spirit of scientists, and encourage scientific researchers to be ambitious, patriotic, dedicated, and committed to innovation. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of scientific research integrity and style of study, and promote the formation of a clean and upright scientific research ecology.

Fifth, we will deeply implement the concept of building a community of human destiny and promote open cooperation in science and technology. Scientific and technological progress is a worldwide and contemporary issue, and only open cooperation is the right way. The more complex the international environment is, the more we must open our minds, open the door, coordinate openness and security, and achieve self-reliance and self-improvement in open cooperation.

It is necessary to deeply implement the initiative of international scientific and technological cooperation, broaden the channels for exchanges and cooperation between the government and the people, give full play to the role of platforms such as the joint construction of "Belt and Road Initiative," take the lead in organizing major international scientific plans and major scientific projects, and support scientific researchers from various countries to jointly tackle key problems. We must actively integrate into the global innovation network, deeply participate in global science and technology governance, and work with countries around the world to create an open, fair, just, and non-discriminatory international science and technology development environment, and jointly respond to global challenges such as climate change, food security, and energy security, so that science and technology Better benefit mankind.

To build a powerful country with science and technology, the scientific and technological front has a heavy responsibility and a glorious mission! It is hoped that the academicians of the two academies, as outstanding representatives of the scientific and technological circles, will be the pioneers of the frontiers of science and technology, the leaders of major tasks, the leaders of the growth of young talents, and the demonstrators of the spirit of scientists, so as to contribute to the development of science and technology in my country. Make new contributions! It is hoped that the vast number of scientific and technological workers will consciously integrate their academic pursuit into the great cause of building a powerful country in science and technology, forge ahead, pursue excellence, and create new achievements worthy of the times and worthy of the people!

Building a strong country with science and technology is the common responsibility of the whole Party and the whole country. Party committees and governments at all levels should conscientiously implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, earnestly strengthen the organization, leadership and scientific management of scientific and technological work, and make every effort to ensure service. Leading cadres at all levels should attach importance to learning new knowledge in science and technology and enhance their ability to lead and promote scientific and technological work.

Building our country into a powerful country in science and technology has been the dream of the Chinese nation since modern times, and generations of Chinese people have worked hard and worked tirelessly for it. Now, the baton of history has been handed over to our generation. We must set up ambitions, work hard, work hard, unite and work hard, and march forward courageously towards the grand goal of building a powerful country in science and technology!