When will Chinese technology catch up with the world's advanced level

At the "Future Science" sub-forum of the Pujiang Innovation Forum on the morning of 27th, Shen Jianlei, director of major projects at the Foundation division of the Ministry of Science and Technology, borrowed a forecast from the United Nations Human Development Organization that if the United States, Europe and Japan continue to develop according to existing laws, then Chinese technology and The intersection of Europe is 35 years later.

"We hope to catch up with the developed countries in 35 years." "he said.

Despite this hope, Shen Jianlei also admits that there are problems with insufficient investment in research in China.

Long-term "arrears" of scientific research investment

In the context of slowing global growth, research funding in most countries has also been affected. Shen Jianlei pointed out that China's research in the government budget is also being cut. So how can the budget cut while ensuring technological innovation and development? Shen Jianlei that no country's scientific input will continue to rise, there is always a period of development and adjustment. At present, our country is in an important adjustment period. From the national overall science and technology strategy, the state needs to support the free exploration of scientific research, especially in the future focus areas, such as environment, security, health and energy and other major issues.

Reinhold Ollig, director of the Department of Resources and Sustainable Development of the Ministry of Education and Research in Germany, Olich said since research and development is a priority area for every political party, the future of the country, there is no obvious change in the investment of research in the future government budget, "Germany should have enough money to support [research] ”。

In addition to Germany, the first financial journal reporter in October this year visited Sweden's universities, also learned that the Swedish Government's research and development in the investment and budget is not weakened by the economic decline, but in some areas such as health and health and other fields have seen a significant increase, Caroline Scar College, the largest medical university in Sweden, has been funded by the government and is building several laboratories.

Compared with European countries, our Government's highest decision-making level also takes innovation as a national development strategy, its core is to increase the investment of scientific research. But Shen Jianlei: "Our country wants basic research to reach 2.5% by 2020, but it has not yet broken 2%." We can see that Israel, Japan, the United States and other countries in the long-term scientific research can have sustained and stable investment. ”

At the plenary of the 18 session, the reform of scientific and technological system has become a hot topic of public opinion. Whether it will reform the way of supporting the science and technology funds based on direct appropriation of projects, and establish financial support mechanism to support research and development and industrialization by financial means such as funds, Shen Jianlei that this is an inevitable trend, although the development of our country is slow in this aspect at present.

Chinese paper quantity is not "bubble"

The change in the number of papers published in SCI from China also shows the progress of Chinese scientific research. Shen Jianlei pointed out that the 1981 national SCI published 1279 papers, and now there are 200,000, ranked second in the world; in addition, from 2010 onwards, the total number of patent applications in China has reached the fourth place in the world.

Facing the public opinion on the domestic paper and the patent "bubble" query, Shen Jianlei to this newspaper that the number of Chinese papers in the world the second should not be described with a bubble, after all, the quality of the paper is consistent with the national scientific research level, and overall, China's scientific research level and Europe and the United States But at least, quantitative change is the only way to achieve qualitative breakthrough.

In the speech, Shen Jianlei a special introduction to our Ministry of Science and Technology in the last 10 years to organize the support of scientific research program, because in 1997, was called "973 plan." Over the past more than 10 years, the 973 project has deployed more than 1000 projects, and currently more than 400 have been accepted. In the future, the project will focus on national energy security, brain planning and brain science and deep-sea science research.