China's sci-tech progressed faster in the last
10 years than any other decade in history, Vice Minister of Science and
Technology Li Meng said at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday. "China's
change in the sci-tech field was historical and comprehensive," he told
reporters. "We have become a nation of innovations and part of the
global innovation system." Li revealed that the current annual
spending on research and development (R&D) is 2.7 times that of
2012, with the spending on basic research being 3.4 times that of the
same year. China's rank in the Global Innovation Index rose 10
times and is now 22 positions higher than in the past decade, Li said,
adding that China is the only nation to achieve such a feat. Li
used the examples of space and deep-sea explorations and quantum
computing to describe China's achievements in basic research and
strategic sci-tech development. However, despite the country's
progress, Li said China is still far behind world-leading nations in
sci-tech development and more effort is needed. A better sci-tech system The
reform of the sci-tech management system has been an important task for
China in the past decade, said Li, noting that President Xi Jinping
proposed many of the institutional reforms regarding science and
technology. In the past decade, China has made progress in utilizing the power of enterprises for sci-tech development, he told reporters. "About
three-quarters of the total R&D spending came from enterprises," he
said. "Enterprises participated in 79 percent of national key research
projects." Li also noted that the market for technology trade in
China expanded 5.8 times between 2012 and 2021. The market size in 2021
was 3.7 trillion yuan (about $550 billion), which is more than the
country's total R&D spending. The country also created national committees for sci-tech advisory and ethics for the first time in history. The
new system also gave scientists more control over budget and research
direction to free them from complicated and unnecessary red tape. "We
have solved some long-standing problems with the reform," Li said. "We
will continue the effort of letting the right talents do the right job."
China achieved unprecedented sci-tech advancement in past decade: official
Editor:阮梓峰
Source:CGTN
Updated:2022-05-13 17:02:54
Source:CGTN
Updated:2022-05-13 17:02:54
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