Technology innovation is the key to winning the future

The key to China's high-quality economic development is how to improve the allocation efficiency of limited resources, so that limited resources can generate more output. An important reason for the decline in economic growth is the decline in the marginal efficiency of capital and labor, which is the appearance of the gradual topping out of the initial factor dividend, and science and technology innovation is the most effective means to stop this decline. Like the key elements of all industrial revolutions, the new generation of science and technology represented by digital technology has a strong universal character. Because of its extreme permeability and synergy, digital technology can profoundly affect the various factors involved in production, enhance total factor productivity, and thus increase total economic output in a higher quality and more efficient manner.

Technology is the application of the discovery of basic scientific laws, and science and technology innovation is highly dependent on the accumulation of profound basic science. Only core technological inventions, new industries and new ideas generated from basic science can ensure that the marginal output of capital and labor input remains at a high level. Shifting the economic development model to be driven by science and technology innovation is a long-term process that requires high attention and persistent investment from the whole society. Now, some frontier fields in China are starting to enter the parallel and leading stage, and the strength of science and technology is moving from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, from point breakthrough to system capacity enhancement, especially the need to pay attention to and cultivate basic research and applied basic research talents.

The economic development model with science and technology innovation as the first driving force requires a large number of compound talents who have the ability of scientific research and originality, but also can deeply understand and accurately grasp the "people's growing needs for a better life". Scientific research practice is the fundamental way to cultivate innovative scientific and technological talents, while management practice is an important hand to combine scientific and technological innovation practice with China's economic development, and the breeding of complex talents requires a complex training system. Insisting on facing the frontier of science and technology in the world, the main battlefield of economy, the major needs of the country, and the people's life and health, we should be curious about science and sensitive to "transforming demand problems into technical problems", and keep advancing to the breadth and depth of science and technology in order to have higher level of original achievements and shoulder the The important task of science and technology innovation.

Technological development is changing rapidly, and in order to continuously inject power into the economy, scientific and technological talents need to maintain the frequency of knowledge updating, so as to extend the innovation life cycle of talents. Enterprises, research institutions and universities should actively provide opportunities for continuous learning of talents, combine basic theoretical learning and applied practical learning systems, use first-class academic research to help innovative talents maintain the height of theoretical frontiers, and help them better apply their basic theoretical research to economic development. By transforming more scientific and technological innovations into economic development, we can better promote the high-quality development of China's economy and provide strong support for economic and social development in the 14th Five-Year Plan period.