[Ten Years Answer]
Guangming Daily reporter Yang Shu Liu Kun
No. 11! Not long ago, World Intellectual Property Organization released the "Global Innovation Index 2022", which is my country's latest international ranking among them. From 34th in 2012 to 11th in 2022, a ten-year leap reflects the vigorous trend of China's continuous increase in innovation capabilities.
Technology empowers development, innovation wins the future.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has placed scientific and technological innovation at the core of the overall national development and regarded innovation as the primary driving force for development. my country's scientific and technological undertakings have undergone historic, holistic and pattern changes, and have successfully entered the ranks of innovative countries. Scientific and technological innovation has played an important role in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and high-quality development of , and has opened a new stage of promoting high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement and building a strong country in science and technology.
In this decade, innovation-driven development strategy has taken root in China, and science and technology self-reliance and self-improvement have delivered wonderful answers.

On July 24, the Long March 5 B Yao3 launch vehicle equipped with the Wentian Experimental Cabin was ignited and launched at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in my country. Xinhua News Agency released
Major scientific and technological innovation achievements are emerging
Golden autumn October, and we entered Beijing Exhibition Hall . At the theme achievement exhibition of "Strive for the New Era", Shenzhou 12 return capsule, chip module, palm six-axis industrial robot, 5G technology application, industrial Internet platform demonstration... One physical object and model with a strong sense of technology reflects the huge momentum brought by innovation drive.
This is a shocking set of data: Since 2012, my country's total R&D funding has increased from 1.03 trillion yuan to 2.79 trillion yuan, ranking second in the world, and its R&D intensity has increased from 1.91% to 2.44%, close to the average level of the OECD (OECD ) country;
The total number of R&D personnel in China in 2021 is expected to be 5.62 million people a year, 1.7 times that of 2012, ranking first in the world, firmly ranked first in the world; ;In 2021, the number of high cited papers in my country was 42,920, ranking second in the world, 5.4 times that in 2012; the number of invention patents ownership per 10,000 population increased from 3.2 in 2012 to 19.1 in 2021, and the number of PCT international patent applications increased from 19,000 in 2012 to 69,500 in 2021, ranking first in the world for three consecutive years...
action started with the concept. The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made major arrangements to implement the innovation-driven development strategy, emphasizing that "scientific and technological innovation is the strategic support for improving social productivity and comprehensive national strength, and must be placed at the core position of the overall national development." The "National Innovation-Driven Development Strategy Outline" officially released in 2016 has carried out top-level design and systematic planning of this strategy, sounding the "assembly call" for scientific and technological innovation.
Water polo becomes "lazy" experiment, fun drinking water in space, wrench that can turn around... On October 12, the third lesson of " Tiangong Classroom " was successfully held. Looking back on the past decade, my country has independently completed the entire process of China Space Station from design, manufacturing to testing. Now the construction has entered the final stage, becoming a vivid section of China's leapfrog development of aerospace science and technology.
At the end of September, the "China Sky Eye" 500-meter-diameter spherical radio telescope (FAST) located in the deep mountains of Guizhou made new discoveries, and the dynamic evolution of the fast radio burst close to the environment was detected. Today, the world's largest single-aperture radio telescope is opening up to scientists around the world, producing amazing scientific research results in multiple research directions, contributing to the exploration and understanding of the universe of all mankind.
"China's position and role in the global innovation map have undergone new changes. It is not only an important participant in cutting-edge international innovation, but also an important contributor to jointly solving global problems." said Wang Zhigang, Minister of Science and Technology.

In the exhibition area of 2022 World 5G Conference China Telecom Group Co., Ltd., visitors will learn about 5G products on the spot. Xinhua News Agency issued
to promote high-quality economic and social development
high-model glass fiber production line is fully powered, and more than 10 information systems ensure production operation through "cloud" control... Nowadays, at Chongqing International Composite Materials Co., Ltd., the production line is fully automated from raw material feeding to product packaging, and the production efficiency is greatly improved.
"Industrial Internet + Intelligent Manufacturing" has given wings to enterprises. This is just a vivid epitome of my country's new generation of information technologies such as 5G and big data empowering traditional industries and promoting high-quality development since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
A set of data outlines the vivid picture of digital technology empowering the economy and society: my country's digital economy scale has grown from 11 trillion yuan in 2012 to 45.5 trillion yuan in 2021, ranking second in the world for many years, and the digital economy's share of GDP increased from 21.6% to 39.8%; e-commerce transaction volume and mobile payment transaction scale rank first in the world; agricultural digitalization level has accelerated, and precision operations have gradually become popular; industrial Internet applications have covered 45 major national economic categories.
"This decade has been the ten years with the greatest progress in engineering science and technology and the fastest improvement in scientific and technological strength in my country." said Li Xiaohong, president of of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Over the past decade, China's science and technology has built a major country project and played a new national system advantage. China's high-speed rail, China dam, China bridge, and China port have become the world's famous "business card" of China's science and technology meets major national needs, and technological breakthroughs have been made in Beidou navigation, new energy, advanced nuclear energy, ultra-high voltage transmission and other technologies have been continuously made, injecting new impetus into economic and social development; China's science and technology supports targeted poverty alleviation , helping to win the unprecedented scale, the largest and the largest population in human history; the vast number of agricultural science and technology workers have turned scientific research results into a harvest scene in the fields, and wrote the papers on the earth with practical actions.
regional innovation is also fruitful. Many of my country's "firsts" such as the first artificial intelligence chip and the first quantum communication satellite were born in the national high-tech zone. Beijing Zhongguancun, Wuhan East Lake, Shanghai Zhangjiang and other "innovation business cards" shine brightly on the map of China.
As of now, the total number of national high-tech zones in my country has reached 173, an increase of 84 from 2012. The GDP of the park has increased from 5.4 trillion yuan in 2012 to 15.3 trillion yuan in 2021. In 2021, the National High-tech Zone created 13.4% of the GDP with 2.5% of the country's construction land, contributing "high-tech power" to high-quality development.

In the 2022 Intelligent Expo China CRRC Showroom, staff (right) introduced the high-speed magnetic levitation transportation system to the guests at a speed of 600 kilometers per hour. Xinhua News Agency issued
Deepening reform and building a fertile ground for innovation
Innovation-driven, which is essentially talent-driven.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the reform of the science and technology system has been deeply promoted around the most critical factor of "people", and the system and mechanism for talent training, use, evaluation, incentives and introduction have become more perfect.
Improve scientific research projects and fund management methods, so that scientific research funds that have been managed too hard can be "live"; deepen the reform of scientific and technological plan management, so that scientific research projects that have been developed through multiple departments can be "unified"; continuously optimize the policy of transformation of scientific and technological achievements, so that more scientific research results that have once been sleepy can be "used"; revise the Science and Technology Progress Method to fully elevate the results and experience of reform to the level of the national legal system... As of now, the 143 reform tasks deployed by " Deepening the Reform of the Science and Technology System " have been fully completed, and the "Three-Year Plan for the Reform of the Science and Technology System (2021-2023)" is being promoted.
Heroes don’t ask where they are capable, whoever reveals the list. Implement the "Announcement and Leadership" project, support the parallel research of different technical routes, arrange key emergency major tasks to "horse racing", explore the chief scientist responsibility system... Gather the national strategic scientific and technological strength, and continuously innovate and improve the organization and implementation forms of major scientific and technological tasks.
let young people take the lead and be the protagonist. National Natural Science Foundation of China "Excellent Youth" project annual funding has increased from 200 to 315, and "Excellent Youth" project has increased from 400 to 630. The Youth Project has a total of 75,000 funding in the past four years. A large number of young people have entered the field of basic research with the support of the project.
is in the "national team of science and technology". Director of the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Director of the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Qian Wei is deeply touched by the benefits of these reforms: "It is all practical measures to 'take real action and take real moves'! A series of reform measures such as the establishment of the talent classification evaluation system and the 'opening of the list and taking charge' system have greatly promoted the talent and team building of our institute."
creates an innovative environment and lets the horses gallop. The number of highly cited scientists selected in the world in mainland my country increased from 111 in 2014 to 935 in 2021; cultivated fertile soil for innovation and widely sowed the seeds of popularization of science. The proportion of Chinese citizens with scientific literacy increased from 3.27% in 2010 to 10.56% in 2020.
innovation-driven, unlimited vitality.
From strong talents and strong technology to strong industries, strong economy and strong country, the powerful engine of scientific and technological innovation is being launched at full speed, driving the giant ship of the "China" to cut through the waves and move forward.
" Guangming Daily " (05th edition, October 15, 2022)
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