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Innovation, Cooperation Advance Human Society

Source: Science and Technology Daily | 2023-01-05 11:26:11 | Author: QI Liming


Workers carry out plant protection operations for soilless grown vegetables in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. (PHOTO: VCG)

By LI Wenjun & LI Hong

Entering 2023, the challenges facing humanity continue unabated. In order to deal with these challenges, it is urgent to use the power of sci-tech innovation and constantly promote open science and international cooperation.

Countries should work together to solve common challenges and scientific difficulties, strengthen international cooperation on science, technology and innovation, and contribute to the building of a community with a shared future for humankind.

However, the international cooperation in sci-tech innovation is faced with the challenge of "unilateralism" and "grouping" by some countries, to limit the development of their competitors. Science knows no borders and innovation has no limits. Sci-tech innovation is inseparable from an international vision and global thinking.

To strengthen international cooperation in science and technology is not only a necessary choice to review historical experience at home and abroad, but also the only way to gain a thorough understanding of the law of global scientific and technological change. The following four proposals for China may also serve as a reference for the world:

Firstly, to solve environmental, energy, health and other problems, fundamentally China needs to rely on sci-tech. Scientists from all over the world should work together in the long term, and more extensive and in-depth international cooperation is also a must. Since building a community with a shared future for humankind is a higher vision for future social development, it transcends differences among countries and serves as an ideological guide for building consensus on development and overcoming difficulties in governance.

Secondly, China should pursue win-win cooperation and expand international cooperation in sci-tech and innovation. The country needs to unswervingly continue to promote and further expand the opening-up of sci-tech, carry out mutually beneficial cooperation in sci-tech, and better integrate into the global innovation network. In addition, it needs to improve multilateral cooperation mechanisms, strengthen cooperation with the international standardization body and the United Nations global technical regulatory body, and participate in global sci-tech governance. The country should also improve the resilience and security of industrial and supply chains, and build a mutually beneficial international cooperation system for industrial and supply chains.

Thirdly, China needs to stimulate the flow of research factors and enhance the ability to provide specialized services for an open environment and international cooperation. It should focus on details, provide convenience for the entry and exit of sci-tech experts, and promote foreign experts services, legal consulting services and other scientific and technological work to be more professional and international. This is in order to create an attractive environment for gathering international talents and international innovation resources.

Fourthly, relying on the large scientific device platform and scientific research network platform, China could initiate global innovation issues, accelerate the gathering of global innovation resources, and help global scientists to expand the scope of scientific research cooperation. To achieve this, China would work with relevant sci-tech management agencies of other countries to jointly develop a series of international sci-tech cooperation and communication products, and enhance the international influence of sci-tech innovation.

The two authors are from Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Editor: 齐笠名

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