Xi urges scientists to boldly explore
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PRESIDENT Xi Jinping promised to respect the creativity of scientists and support free and bold scientific exploration when he spoke at a science event yesterday.
“Scientists should be allowed to freely explore and test the bold hypotheses they put forward,” Xi told a meeting on scientific and technological innovation, which also marked the biennial conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Among the five priorities in the country’s innovation drive, the president stressed the establishment of a rich talent pool of scientists with global vision, and entrepreneurs and technicians who are innovators.
He promised to grant leading scientists more power and liberty to decide the direction of their research, and greater management of research funds and resources.
The other four priorities are developing cutting-edge science and technology, launching key projects to create a world-class research network, benefiting economic and social development, and reforming a science management and operation mechanism.
Xi said China should strive to take a leading role in scientific and technological research.
The country should have a global vision, establish development strategies in a timely manner, be confident in innovation, and be known for original theories and discoveries.
“Currently, the state needs the strategic support of science and technology more urgently than ever before,” he said.
He encouraged scientists and technicians to respond to China’s major strategic demands, strive to advance research into core technologies and move up to the world’s scientific and technological “high ground.”
To be the world’s major scientific and technological power, the state will have to champion first-class institutes, research-oriented universities and innovation-oriented enterprises. This will also support a substantial amount of original research, Xi said.
He stressed the role scientific research can play to boost economic and social development.
In the process of advancing supply-side structural reform and cutting overcapacity and excess inventory, de-leveraging, reducing costs and addressing points of weakness, more advances in innovation are needed, Xi said.
Public scientific and technological services should be increased, so that the people can enjoy a more livable environment, better health care and safer food and medicine, he added.
Xi said there will be greater support for tech companies, especially small and medium-sized firms, and research institutes and universities will be reorganized.
China is also planning cities or regional centers that are attractive to outstanding innovation industries, he said.
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