Promoting Basic Research to Achieve High Quality Development Strategy | Innovation | Basic Research
As an important component of the national strategic scientific and technological strength, national scientific research institutions should implement the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee, based on their own positioning, accelerate the transformation of scientific research concepts, focus on innovating topic selection mechanisms, organizational models, and management methods, strengthen division of labor, cooperation, and overall coordination with other types of innovative entities, focus on strategic oriented systematic basic research, and strive to produce more original and leading major innovative achievements.
In July 2023, as China's first mission level deep cooperation space science exploration mission with the European Space Agency, the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Interaction Panoramic Imaging Satellite completed all preliminary development work and fully entered the normal development stage. The diagram shows the spatial operation of the "Smile" satellite. Picture provided by the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Accelerate the transformation of scientific research concepts and strengthen the awareness of "seizing the commanding heights"
We must always bear in mind that national research institutions, as "national teams" and "national people", must be concerned with "national affairs" and shoulder "national responsibilities", always have the "great of the country" in mind, and determine the target direction of basic research around national strategic needs and the forefront of world science and technology, providing basic theoretical support and technological source supply for innovation and development. Enhance innovation confidence, step out of the comfort zone of scientific research, bravely venture into the "no man's land" of technology, dare to propose new theories and methods, open up new fields and directions, fundamentally reverse the thinking inertia of tracking and following and the path dependence of following step by step, and actively seize the technological high ground.
Innovate the selection mechanism for basic research topics, and achieve a transformation from "what we are doing" and "what we want to do" to "what we should do"
From the strategic perspective of effectively supporting development, ensuring survival, and enhancing leadership, efforts should be made to address the most urgent and pressing scientific principles and major scientific and technological challenges at the forefront of world science behind national strategic needs. Avoid the tendency of "shifting from reality to falsehood" in the topic selection, strengthen communication with important industry departments and backbone enterprises, fully leverage the consulting and evaluation role of strategic scientists, research and develop and dynamically update the list of major needs and cutting-edge scientific issues. For example, around the major strategic needs of black land protection and utilization, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with relevant departments and local governments, organized more than 1300 scientific and technological personnel to carry out the "black soil granary" science and technology war, and promoted the organic cross integration of soil, breeding, plants, information, space remote sensing and other disciplines around basic research issues such as black land fertility improvement. At the same time, it is also necessary to avoid the tendency of "seeking refuge" in the topic selection, strengthen the combination of top-down and bottom-up, select basic scientific problems with strong driving force, high difficulty in tackling, and focused task goals, plan major scientific and technological tasks for basic research, and organize large teams to carry out centralized research.
Reform the organizational model and management methods of basic research, fully leverage the advantages of systematization and institutionalization
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We should take national strategic needs and major scientific issues as the driving force, explore the establishment of research groups, laboratory groups and other scientific research organization methods, organize relevant research institutions, and concentrate our strengths to carry out cross disciplinary and cross disciplinary collaborative research and development. In response to the trend of profound changes in scientific research paradigms, we will rely on national major scientific and technological infrastructure and research conditions platforms to carry out institutionalized basic research, strengthen the layout construction and open sharing of scientific and technological basic capabilities such as research instruments, scientific data centers, and scientific journals. Further strengthen the integrated allocation and coordination of various innovative resources such as basic research funds, projects, and talents, and form a policy synergy. Actively leading and participating in international big science programs and projects around global issues such as climate change, energy security, biosecurity, and outer space utilization, striving to provide more Chinese wisdom and solutions, and continuously enhancing China's vitality and influence in the field of global basic research.
Based on scientific research practice, strengthen the construction of talent team, and fully stimulate the innovative potential of basic research talents
We must adhere to the cultivation of basic research talents in scientific research practice, focus policy on young talents, and provide greater and longer stable support to outstanding young talents in accordance with the principle of "combining topic selection and talent selection", provide a relaxed scientific research environment, and promote the output of major original achievements and outstanding young talents to stand out. In recent years, with the support of the central government, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has selected 100 young teams in basic research fields, provided stable support for a five-year cycle, and actively trained outstanding young scientific and technological talents, achieving good phased results. We need to improve the long-term support and differentiated evaluation mechanism for basic research talents, resolutely eliminate "only papers, only professional titles, only academic qualifications, and only awards", establish a quality, performance, and ability oriented basic research evaluation mechanism, and encourage researchers to focus on national strategic needs. Focusing on the long-term needs of building a world science and technology powerhouse, adhering to the correct education orientation, actively exploring new mechanisms to strengthen the integration of science and education under new circumstances, and comprehensively improving the quality of independent talent cultivation.
Vigorously promote the spirit of scientists and create an innovative ecosystem conducive to basic research
We should further guide scientific researchers to inherit the glorious tradition of the older generation of scientists dedicating themselves to the country and caring for the people, and write papers on the land of our motherland, so that basic research can better serve national development and social progress. Vigorously promote the spirit of scientists, inspire researchers to combine academic interests with national needs, combine professional spirit with patriotic dedication, and combine the pursuit of excellence with practical application. Strengthen the construction of work style and academic style, create an academic ecosystem that is pragmatic, diligent in learning, sincere in action, open and inclusive, have zero tolerance for academic misconduct, strengthen the awareness of scientific researchers to abide by research ethics and academic norms, and carry out responsible scientific research. Fully leverage the advantages of high-level experts and professionals, actively carry out scientific popularization work, and encourage and guide more outstanding young people to engage in scientific research.
For more information, please refer to the article of the Party Leadership Group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of the Communist Party of China "Building the Foundation for Self reliance and Self reliance in High level Science and Technology"