This is an award certificate issued 38 years ago, which bears witness to Xi Jinping's concern and encouragement for scientific and technological innovators.

On January 1985, 1, Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Zhengding County Party Committee, presented Zhang Xinli of the local Spring Optoelectronic Equipment Factory with a special certificate - "Self-taught Talent Award".

Zhang Xinli originally worked at the county radio station and liked to delve into radio technology. In 1983, he resigned and opened the Spring Optoelectronic Equipment Factory, which developed a device that could automatically put on stage lighting according to changes in music. After hearing about this scientific and technological innovation, Xi Jinping visited the Chunguang factory many times and helped Zhang Xinli open up product sales. Soon, the equipment developed by Zhang Xinli appeared on the stage of activities to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the founding of New China.

From the local government to the central government, Xi Jinping always gives support and encouragement to scientific and technological workers at critical moments.

"Hand-torn steel", known as the "crown jewel of the steel industry". For a long time, this technology was monopolized by a few countries. In 2016, TISCO set up a young "hand-torn steel" innovation R&D team to attack this "stuck neck" field.

In 2017 and 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into this company twice for inspection and research. At the time of the general secretary's first visit, the R&D team was engaged in the difficult exploration of the new project "hand-torn steel", which failed on average every two days. The ardent expectations of the general secretary have encouraged the scientific and technological workers of TISCO to muster up the courage to innovate.

Three years later, TISCO was reborn and the world's thinnest "hand-torn steel" was successfully developed. General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into the production workshop, picked up a piece of "hand-torn steel", gently twisted it, and praised: "A hundred steels are made into finger wrapping." ”

Since 2017, China has established May 5 as "National Science and Technology Workers Day" every year. Since then, the majority of scientific and technological workers have had their own festivals. Over the past few years, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attended important meetings, delivered important speeches or sent letters many times, extending sincere greetings to scientific and technological workers across the country.

No matter how the times change, "serving the country through science" will always be the source of motivation for the unremitting struggle of the vast number of scientific and technological workers. General Secretary Xi Jinping once quoted the poem "Frost is full of blood and sprinkles on the autumn leaves of a thousand peaks" to highly praise the major contributions made by generations of scientists to the motherland and the people.

In order to create a clean and healthy scientific research environment for the majority of scientific and technological workers, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the academician conference of the two academies and the 2021th National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology in <>: "To let scientific and technological personnel devote their main energy to scientific and technological innovation and research and development activities, we must not let scientific and technological personnel spend a lot of time on some unnecessary welcoming activities, unnecessary review and evaluation activities, and formalistic and bureaucratic activities." The general secretary's speech has aroused strong resonance among the vast number of scientific and technological workers.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's scientific and technological workers have worked hard to tackle key problems, and scientific and technological achievements have continued to emerge. As General Secretary Xi Jinping said: "China's independent innovation cause is promising!" The vast number of scientific and technological workers in our country have made great achievements! ”

Producer丨Geng Zhimin

Producer丨Du Xiaodong Wu Xuan

Choreographer丨Liu Xuefeng

Videography丨Li Weipeng Wei Chen

Editing丨Yan Jia

Voiced by丨Wang Shuaitian

Editor: Wang Anran

Packing丨Hu Jie

Materials丨Zhang Jin, Li Jinghui, Yang Shan, Xu Anqi, Zhang Yanan

Coordinator丨Yang Bo, Yang Hailing, Liu Xiao, Mao Hui, Zhao Yezi, Yang Caiyun

Assist in filming丨Main Tai Hebei Station Hebei Tai