On May 5, the 25 Zhongguancun Forum opened in Beijing, and General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter. Looking forward, the general secretary sent a congratulatory letter to the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum and a video congratulations to the 2019 Zhongguancun Forum.
Three congratulations, there are judgments, initiatives, expectations, scientific and technological innovation is a consistent theme word. At this national, cutting-edge and international forum, let us further understand the general secretary's "world view" on scientific and technological innovation through three keywords.
World leading
Today's world is experiencing major changes unprecedented in a century, and technological innovation is one of the key variables. Whoever takes the first step of scientific and technological innovation will be able to seize the opportunity and win the advantage.
Ten years ago, in September 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping led the comrades of the Politburo of the Central Committee out of Zhongnanhai and moved the "classroom" of collective learning to Zhongguancun, and "implementing the innovation-driven development strategy" became the learning theme.
"Can't wait, can't wait, can't slack", General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed with three "can't", we must "firmly seize and make good use of the opportunities of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation".
The clock is ticking.
In the face of the new trend of scientific and technological innovation and development, major countries in the world are looking for breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation to seize the opportunity of future economic and technological development.
Zhongguancun is China's first national independent innovation demonstration zone, undertaking the task of taking the lead and piloting. During that collective study, General Secretary Xi Jinping asked Zhongguancun to "accelerate its march into a science and technology innovation center with global influence."
Since then, he has congratulated the Zhongguancun Forum three times, and building a "world-leading science and technology park" has always been General Secretary Xi Jinping's expectation for Zhongguancun.
Major breakthroughs have been made in areas such as deep space, deep sea and deep earth exploration for major national needs, and major original achievements such as long-life superconducting qubit chips continue to emerge... As a banner of China's innovation and development, Zhongguancun has helped China's science and technology transform from a "follower" and "companion" to a "leader".
In the decade of the new era, China's contribution rate to the world's scientific and technological innovation has increased significantly, and it has successfully entered the ranks of innovative countries.
Open cooperation
Openness and cooperation are the proper meaning of scientific and technological innovation.
In this year's congratulatory letter, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that at present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing in depth, and mankind needs international cooperation and openness and sharing more than ever to solve the problem of common development.
Openness promotes innovation, and cooperation promotes development.
After years of development, the Zhongguancun Forum has become an important platform for global scientific and technological innovation exchanges and cooperation, and a business card for China's foreign scientific and technological exchanges. The theme of the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum is "Open Cooperation and Shared Future", which further demonstrates the confidence and sincerity of China's scientific and technological openness and cooperation.
Strengthening open cooperation in science and technology and jointly coping with challenges is actually in line with the trend and the general trend. China has always been an advocate, defender and practitioner of international scientific and technological openness and cooperation.
The 2035th Five-Year Plan and the outline of the long-term goals for <> have a special section on "actively promoting open cooperation in science and technology" to deploy this.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to expand international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, strengthen the construction of an international scientific research environment, and form an open innovation ecology with global competitiveness.
Do not reject the current, the party is the river and the sea.
Independent innovation is not to build cars behind closed doors and fight alone, but to gather the spirit of the world and borrow the power of all parties. At the 19th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 14th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that it is necessary to deepen international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation and promote independent innovation from a higher starting point.
Win-win sharing
"Sharing the achievements of innovation and development with all countries in the world", "jointly promoting the noble cause of peace and development of mankind", "promoting science and technology to better benefit the people of all countries", General Secretary Xi Jinping's three congratulations to the Zhongguancun Forum all declared: innovation achievements should benefit the whole world, not become treasures buried in caves.
No country can be an independent innovation hub, or its own share of innovation. Scientific and technological achievements should benefit all mankind and should not become a means to restrict or curb the development of other countries.
In January 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized in his special speech at the World Economic Forum's "Davos Agenda" dialogue that China will promote international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation with more open thinking and measures, and work with other countries to create an open, fair, just and non-discriminatory environment for scientific and technological development, and promote mutual benefit and sharing.
Looking at this year's Zhongguancun Forum, a technology trading section has been specially set up to facilitate the matching and sharing of more than 40,7000 scientific and technological achievements from <> countries and regions.
Sharing scientific and technological innovation achievements, China is committed to promoting scientific and technological innovation achievements to benefit more countries and people. China's high-speed railway has written a wonderful stroke of jointly building the "Belt and Road", the Chinese space station is open to all member states of the United Nations, and a number of satellites are urgently called to provide assistance to other countries in flood relief ... All this provides scientific and technological support for building a community with a shared future for mankind and contributes to China's strength.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that scientific and technological innovation, like a lever to pry the earth, can always create unexpected miracles.
To cope with the challenges of the times, strengthen openness and cooperation, and promote win-win sharing, we can see China from Zhongguancun, the vitality of China's scientific and technological innovation, and the new era when China and the world join hands to create a better future.
Written by: Pan Junqiang
Photo by He Yong