Why is "strengthening the national strategic scientific and technological strength" ranking first in the key tasks next year?
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We must do a good job in the organic integration of effective markets and promising governments, so that the two complement each other and play a better role.
Among the key tasks of the central government's economic work in 2021, "strengthening the country's strategic scientific and technological capabilities and giving play to the advantages of the new nationwide system" ranks first.
Connecting China to become the only major economy in the world to achieve positive economic growth in 2020, certain shortcomings in economic and social development-especially major "stuck neck" problems in some key areas and key links have been exposed. This deployment is obviously meaningful.
Create a good environment for technological innovation
Judging from the deployment of economic work in 2021, the creation of systems and mechanisms for technological innovation is the focus, as well as the strategic fulcrum for enhancing the independent controllability of the industrial supply chain, adhering to the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand, and comprehensively promoting reform and opening up.
Failure to make forward-looking layouts and key breakthroughs in technological innovation will make it difficult to effectively enhance the independent controllability of the industrial supply chain. The problem of "stuck neck" will become a long pain, and the strategic basis for expanding domestic demand will also lack endurance-because The key to domestic demand is to create and tap new consumption power.
Based on the current debt ratios of governments, residents, and enterprises, the space for circular economy to increase on the basis of existing demand is constrained by the diminishing marginal effects of scale.
The comprehensive promotion of reform and opening up also requires the strategic stabilization effect of technological innovation.
Based on the current international situation, if breakthroughs can be made in technological innovation, it will strengthen the foundation of my country's foreign cooperation and reduce the difficulty of foreign cooperation.
The same high-quality reform and opening up is itself an important part of creating a system and mechanism for technological innovation.
How to create a good system and mechanism environment for technological innovation?
The Central Economic Work Conference highlighted the importance of the new nationwide system, which is essentially determined by the environment of my country’s scientific research and innovation.
Of course, the new nationwide system is different from the traditional nationwide system. Its essence is to give play to the main role of enterprises in technological innovation and allow the market to play a decisive role in the allocation of resources. Better expand the main role of enterprises in technological innovation, rather than substitute the main role of enterprises.
The "stuck neck" problem has the subject of benchmarking
The biggest problem with my country's scientific and technological innovation at present is that basic scientific research such as basic theory is relatively weak.
For a long time, the state's strategic scientific and technological forces have invested excessively in applied scientific and technological innovation, which has restrained enterprises from playing the main role in scientific and technological innovation to a certain extent, and also affected the market's decisive role in the allocation of scientific and technological innovation resources.
At the same time, basic scientific research that does not directly produce economic effects, which is the place where the national strategic scientific research force is most likely to play a role, is faced with problems such as lack and dislocation.
From this perspective, it is obviously a top priority to make use of the advantages of the new-type nationwide system and realize the national strategic scientific and technological strength based on basic theories and other basic scientific research.
At present, my country's economy has encountered a series of "stuck neck" problems and shortcomings in the independent controllability of the international industrial chain supply chain. To improve the independent controllability, we must tackle these "stuck neck" problems. .
In this regard, the advantages of the new nationwide system will be quite prominent.
Because such scientific research activities have clear goals and clear tasks, it is important to optimize the allocation of scientific research resources and concentrate national strategic scientific research forces for targeted attacks. It will be very efficient and feasible.
How to make use of the scientific research advantages of the new nationwide system?
Of course, in order to give full play to the advantages of the new nationwide system in scientific research, and to abandon the shackles of the traditional nationwide system based on path dependence, it is necessary to maintain the strategic determination of the enterprise's dominant position in scientific and technological innovation; it is necessary to clearly position the national strategic scientific and technological power as one This kind of public service is to better promote enterprises to play the dominant position of scientific and technological innovation to escort, rather than the national strategic scientific and technological force to directly replace the dominant position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation.
This requires that the national strategic scientific and technological forces must not only do basic research work, but also explore effective methods of resource allocation and resource sharing mechanisms for scientific research forces, realize an industry-university-research innovation complex with enterprises as the main body, and explore various types of shared intellectual property rights. form.
At the same time, improve the intellectual property trading market.
Strengthen the exploration of intellectual capital pricing mechanism and transaction mechanism.
In short, the new nationwide system is not about taking the road of planned economy in scientific and technological innovation, but by giving better play to the role of the government to provide necessary public services for enterprises to play the main role in scientific and technological innovation; it is the national strategic scientific research force. Service sinking is to use market forces to measure the economic and social value of national scientific research forces.
Therefore, for the new nationwide system to truly and effectively bring out its advantages, it is essentially a process of national strategic scientific and technological forces exploring and promoting each other with market forces. It is also a concentrated expression of scientific and technological innovation in the modernization of my country's national governance system and governance capabilities.
That is, we must do a good job in the organic integration between effective markets and promising governments, so that the two complement each other and play a better role.
□ Liu Xiaozhong (author of financial column)