Chinese Academy of Sciences recommends strengthening key layout of science and technology strategy

How will China respond to the financial crisis after countries have put their hopes on a revolutionary breakthrough in technology to speed up a forward-looking layout?

In a recent report published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences on the new situation of scientific and technological development and strategic choice for the 2020, it gives its own suggestions: in the field of large data science platform, stem cell and regenerative medicine to meet the important needs of the country, China may achieve major breakthroughs in science and technology and the world may have major scientific and technological events in the field to accelerate or strengthen the major scientific and technological layout.

Big Data science will bring a whole new industry

The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the strategic report, the current world of science and technology is showing a new development trend and characteristics of a big judgment is: Large data science will become a new paradigm of research.

"Internet technology, Internet economics, supercomputing, Environmental science, biomedicine and other research produced a large number of data, the birth of a big data science, the new paradigm of scientific research will lead to profound changes in scientific research organization, and the creation of knowledge and application of more closely integrated." Chinese Academy of Sciences Dean Bai pointed out.

Guojie, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, thinks that when the age of data is king, the concept needs to change and the focus should be shifted to the data. Although the computer industry is the information industry, but the long-term pursuit of computing speed, the large data age means that the need to change from the pursuit of computing speed to large data processing capabilities of the software also from programming to the main data priority. "Big data is not only an important direction for future scientific research, but also a trend for many industries and enterprises to develop," Guojie said.

According to statistics of 2012, the large data market of government, Internet, telecommunication and finance is large, and four industries occupy nearly half of market share. In the statistics of large data concern of enterprises in various industries, the positive degree of Internet Enterprises ' attention is obviously better than those of other industries, and the degree of attention is 40.5%.

Guojie predicts that some new industries, such as data prospecting, data chemistry, data medicine and so on, may be formed in the future. "We should attach great importance to the current emerging materials genomics, material chemistry genomics, drug genomics, which may bring new industries." ”

The report also predicts that China may have major technological breakthroughs in 19 areas in the next 5-10 years, including quantum communications, universal computing, stem cell research, and clean and efficient utilization of coal resources.

To speed up the layout of a group of new scientific and technological strategic points

Based on the above situation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences believes that China needs to strengthen or accelerate the key layout of science and technology strategy in large data science platform on the basis of existing technology layout.

It is reported that the difficulty in dealing with large data is not only the large amount of data, but also the challenge is that some areas of data are growing rapidly, and the vast majority of unstructured data. The current data mining relies mainly on advanced tools, tool dependence rather than data dependence, large data processing needs to study the laws and knowledge hidden in the data itself, the next 5-10 years must study the revolutionary large data processing system structure and revolutionary algorithm and software.

In addition, the report recommends that the State strengthen or accelerate the strategic focus of science and technology in the following areas: manufacturing resources efficient and clean use green process research, tight sandstone oil and gas and shale gas and other unconventional hydrocarbon resources evaluation methods and development techniques, the formation and control of atmospheric haze, new vaccine research, quantum information technology research and application, Materials design and process simulation, stem cell and regenerative medicine research, sustainability of the Earth system on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Jiangmen neutrino experiment, dark matter dark energy research and detection, and major problems in brain cognitive science.

It is particularly worth mentioning that, according to the report's predictions, over the next 5-10 years, with the breakthrough of the theory of cell meiosis, artificial sperm and eggs will appear, thus creating new ways to reproduce life.

"If one can produce stem cells that can be divided into sperm and eggs, what else should men and women do?" Homosexuals can also have their own genetic offspring. "This is never a challenge to human ethics and human development," said Qi, a researcher at the Vice director of the Academy of Zoology. ”

"We should not wait until the day the technology results appear to consider ethical issues, but should be more forward-looking thinking and thinking." "Qi said.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)