[What's happening in China] Japanese media: Significant increase in research and development in China's cutting-edge science and technology fields. Citation | Innovation | China
On August 2nd, China Daily reported that the level of technological innovation determines a country's development momentum, and innovation cannot be separated from basic research. According to an article published on Nihon Keizai Shimbun. com on the second day, in recent years, Chinese researchers have been engaged in exploratory research to open up new fields and constantly open up new fields. However, Japan adheres to existing research fields and lacks a new attitude of exploration.
At the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers are conducting experiments. Xinhua News Agency image
Recently, the Science and Technology and Academic Policy Research Institute of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology released a survey report on the "Science Map". The report investigated the citation relationships of important papers ranked in the top 1% of citations by other papers in major fields such as clinical medicine and physics.
The number of areas of focus for this study is 919. Among them, the top 1% of important papers with citations come from 605 fields in China. China's proportion has grown significantly, especially with strong influence in high-tech fields such as nanoscience and artificial intelligence. In the 2008 survey, Japan accounted for 41%, reaching its peak, and this time it dropped to 31%. Britain and Germany account for about 50%.
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"China has a strong and active research foundation, and can even create a research field in its own country," said Ishin Masayoshi, the head of the Research Center
The survey subdivides the research field into four types: large-scale, traditional themed "continental type"; Small scale, fiercely changing, and expanding into new fields; The "peninsula type" and "island type" in the middle.
The survey found that the proportion of "small island" research areas in China has increased from 27% in the 2004 survey to 32%, while the proportion of "mainland" research areas has decreased from 33% to 23%.
The article states that China has always attached great importance to applied research, but since around 2015, a policy has been proposed to enrich the basic research of young researchers. In the future, China will also propose the goal of increasing the investment ratio. Not only in existing research fields, but also dedicated to fundamental research.
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In fact, this year's government work report pointed out that China's basic research funding has doubled in five years. Official data shows that in 2022, China's basic research funding will continue to grow, and new breakthroughs will be made in original innovation.
Preliminary estimates show that in 2022, China's basic research expenditure will be 195.1 billion yuan, an increase of 7.4% compared to the previous year; The proportion of research and development funds is 6.32%, maintaining a level of over 6% for four consecutive years, which has played a positive role in continuously improving China's original innovation capabilities.
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