After the second plenary meeting of the Fourth Session of the 13th National People's Congress, the second "Ministerial Channel" interview event was held, and some of the leaders of relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council who attended the meeting were invited to accept interviews via online video.
Science and Technology Daily reporter: May I ask Minister Wang, because we have also promulgated many policies and measures on the reform of the science and technology system in recent years. I would like to ask you how these policies and measures are implemented?
And what are our subsequent deployments and considerations?
Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang: Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has placed the reform of the scientific and technological system in an important position for comprehensive and deepening reform, personally deployed and promoted, and achieved a series of scientific and technological system reform results, 143 items The reform task was fully completed.
At the same time, some reform measures have become national laws and policies, forming evaluation methods, and forming some new consensus on how to promote innovation in the whole society. These are the results of reforms.
Wang Zhigang: Of course, there are still some problems in the reforms. We will continue to pay attention to them and continue to deepen and overcome them in the new round of reforms.
In terms of comprehensively deepening the reform of the scientific and technological system, we mainly focus on national strategic goals, focusing on how to mobilize the enthusiasm of scientific and technological personnel, how to build a good innovation ecology such as laws, policies, and social environment, and how to invest in national science and technology for the whole society. Use science and technology investment to achieve better performance, implement the requirements of the General Secretary to face the world's scientific and technological frontiers, face the main economic battlefield, face the country's major needs, and face the people's lives and health, optimize systems and mechanisms, produce more scientific and technological achievements, and support the country's economic and social development.
We must persist in reform-driven innovation and innovation-driven development, and in accordance with the requirements of the General Secretary, promote the two wheels of technological innovation and institutional innovation.
This also shows the dialectical unity relationship between reform and innovation.
Wang Zhigang: The Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee and the government work report have put forward clear requirements for the reform of the science and technology system, and the Ministry of Science and Technology will carefully understand and implement it.
Wang Zhigang: First, we must focus on the key core technology to promote the reform of the science and technology management system, including how to build a more effective new nationwide system; how to better utilize the country as a major scientific and technological force and organizer of scientific and technological tasks under the conditions of a market economy How to make the main bodies of industry, university and research institute play their respective roles to create an innovation community and a community of interests; how to promote the reforms such as “revealing the rankings” mentioned in the government work report to achieve better results.
Wang Zhigang: Second, take scientific research evaluation as the starting point and continue to advance the various reforms that have been carried out, including reducing the burden on scientific researchers, creating a good ecology, building a good style of study, and how to enable scientific researchers to engage in basic research and application foundations. Research, technological innovation, and the transformation of scientific research results together form a strong scientific and technological support for national development and security.
(Organized according to the web text live broadcast)