The Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee met on June 27th to discuss a number of key issues concerning the National Medium & Long-term S&T Development Plan and worked over activities to be deployed for the acceleration of China¡¯s S&T progress. HU Jingtao, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee presided over the meeting.
The Meeting pointed out that science and technology are the primary productive forces and a concentrated expression and a hallmark of advanced productive forces and the historic mission of building a well-off society in an all-round way has raised higher requirements for China¡¯s S&T development. In order to realize the objectives of building a well-off society in an all-round way, we must continuously achieve qualitative leaps in the development of China¡¯s productive forces by driving and relying on S&T progress and innovations with higher consciousness and on a most extensive scale so as to facilitate faster and healthier development of China¡¯s economy and society.
It was pointed out at the Meeting that significant achievements have been made in China¡¯s S&T development thanks to the continuous efforts and utmost fortitude of a few generations over the past five decades since the founding of New China. In the meanwhile, we must be keenly aware of the fact that S&T development level of China as a whole still lags behind the advanced level and we must do all we can to catch up. The first 20 years of this century is a key strategic period full of opportunities for China¡¯s economic, scientific and technological development. The formulation and implementation of the first National Medium and Long-term S&T Development Plan of the century is directly connected with the realization of the objectives of building a well-off society in an all-round way, the success of socialist modernization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and embraces great realistic and profound strategic significances.
The Meeting emphasized that£¬in face of the new situation where the world is making great strides in science and technology, we must uphold Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of ¡°three represents¡±, implement the concept of scientific development in an all-round way and press ahead with the implementation of the strategies of rejuvenating China through science and education and reinforcing China by relying on human resources; we must put forward in a scientific way the guidelines, strategic objectives and strategic keystones of China¡¯s S&T development in the future by keeping abreast of the actual demands of China¡¯s social and economic progress and modernization and making realistic deployments; we must enhance our confidence and work hard to realize the great strides of China¡¯s S&T development.
The Meeting emphasized that we must take S&T progresses and innovations as the primary driving force of our social and economic development more resolutely, regard the capabilities of independent innovation as a key step of economic restructuring, transformation of the growth pattern and promoting the national competitiveness and take the construction of an innovative nation as a key national strategy geared to the future. In the coming 15 years for China¡¯s S&T activities, we must adhere to the guidelines of supporting the development and leading the future through promotion of independent innovation and great strides in key areas and resolutely take the enhancement of independent innovation capabilities as a key part of the overall S&T activities; we must make all endeavors to become a master of a group of kernel technologies in a number of important fields, take command of a batch of independent intellectual property rights and build a group of enterprises and brands with international competitiveness by sparing no efforts to reinforce the original innovations, integrated innovations and digestion and absorption of and innovations based on introduced advanced technologies so as to provide powerful S&T supports to China¡¯s economic and social development and modernization of national defense.
The Meeting emphasized that we must establish a complete and sound leadership and coordinating mechanism for the S&T activities, handle well the formulation and implementation of the various counterpart policies and actions and make all endeavors to achieve key breakthroughs in the deepening of the reform of S&T system, incentives to enterprise innovations, increase of input in S&T sector, acceleration of human resources development and reinforcement of S&T exchanges and cooperation with the international world.
It is put forward as a requirement at the Meeting that all regions and governmental departments shall follow the uniform deployment by the Central Government and organize enterprises, research institutes, institutes of higher learning and S&T forces of other natures to realize the various objectives and missions defined in the National Medium and Long Term S&T Development Plan through full mobilization of their initiative and joint efforts and reasonable distribution of responsibilities and duties.
Discussions on other issues were also conducted during the Meeting.
