China News Service, March 29. According to the website of the Ministry of Water Resources, the Pearl River Water Conservancy Commission recently completed the annual statistical work of sorting out technical achievements and compiled the "Compilation of Excellent Technical Achievements of the Pearl River Water Conservancy Commission" (1979-2023). This compilation has added a special item of "popular science works", which includes a total of 551 achievements in 12 categories including annual award-winning achievements, technical standards, patents, treatises, scientific and technological projects and talents. The total number of achievements has reached a new high, an increase of 23% over the previous year.
Statistical results show that in 2023, the Pearl River Water Conservancy Commission will focus on high-quality development of water conservancy, achieve new breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation, and popularize science to add vitality.
The first is to strengthen sorting and condensation, and the quality and quantity of award-winning technical achievements have improved. 8 technical achievements won provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, 14 achievements won the 2022 Science and Technology Award of the Pearl River Water Conservancy Commission, including 1 special prize; 24 achievements won provincial and ministerial level survey and design awards, and the Youjiang Baise Water Conservancy Project won the fifth International Milestone Engineering Award for RCC Dam.
The second is to encourage original research and achieve new breakthroughs in the number of independent intellectual property rights. A total of 177 patented technologies were authorized in the year, including 127 invention patents, a year-on-year increase of 90%; 108 new software copyrights were added, 83 Chinese core or above papers were published, and 25 monographs were published.
The third is to focus on application first, and achieve new results in the promotion and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. It has been selected as 23 outstanding technical achievements in provincial and ministerial promotion catalogues, and has been approved as one of the first batch of technology promotion bases of the Science and Technology Promotion Center of the Ministry of Water Resources.
The fourth is to continuously innovate ideas and provide more colorful science popularization. The popular science song "Saving Water in the Pearl River" was released for the first time, and the graphic science publication "Wison Pictures of Dateng Gorge" was published, and 5 original science micro videos were published.
Fifth, we insist on paying equal attention to selection and promotion, and achieve new results in the training of high-level talents. One new young science and technology talent from the Ministry of Water Resources, two young top-notch talents from the Ministry of Water Resources, and six science and technology talents from the Pearl River Water Conservancy Commission were added.
In the next step, the Pearl River Water Conservancy Commission will continue to focus on the goals and implementation paths of high-quality water conservancy development in the new stage, accelerate the development of new water conservancy productivity, with the goal of achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance in the basin, and continue to do a good job in scientific and technological innovation and scientific popularization in the basin and throughout the committee. work to encourage all units affiliated to the committee to build on their own technological advantages, produce more and better, practical and effective technological achievements, and use high-level scientific and technological innovation to promote the development of Pearl River water conservancy science and technology to take new steps.