The participating scientists pointed out that scientific instruments and equipment are the materialization of scientific and technological knowledge such as test methods and technologies, and they are the basic means for people to understand the world and measure and control information in the material world. They are not only the basis for scientific research but also the modern high-tech and information industries. The source and components. In a certain sense, it can be said that whoever masters the most advanced scientific instruments and equipment will have priority in the development of science and technology, the right to safeguard people's health, the right to formulate commercial standards in economic interaction, and the initiative to control emergencies.
However, in our country’s scientific activities, for a long time, many laboratories have been equipped with experimental equipment imported from abroad, which has caused scientists’ ideas and actions to be limited by equipment and equipment in other countries. It is understood that 60% of China's investment in fixed assets is used for imported equipment, and a large part of it is a key high-end instrument. Take analysis and detection equipment as an example, technology-intensive high-end equipment such as chromatography-mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic spectroscopy, plasma mass spectrometry, electron energy spectroscopy, transmission and scanning electron microscopy, automated biochemical analyzers, and nucleic acid sequencers, 100% Depends on imports. The total volume of imported analytical instruments soared from 900 million U.S. dollars in 2001 to 1.613 billion U.S. dollars in 2003. It exceeded 2 billion U.S. dollars in 2004 and continues to climb at a rate of about 30% each year. In terms of biomedical instruments, China’s dependence on developed countries is even more severe.
Therefore, in November 2005, the Department of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences submitted a heavy report to relevant departments - "Recommendations on vigorously strengthening the capacity of independent research and development and industrialization of scientific instruments in China to implement the "Zhang Heng Project." Undoubtedly, this report has been highly valued by the government and has caused a series of "chain reactions." On the occasion of the implementation of the spirit of the National Science and Technology Conference and the implementation of the national medium and long-term scientific planning, the Condition Finance Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology organized the conference after it had solicited suggestions for research and development of the "Eleventh Five-Year" scientific equipment from the society early this year.
It is gratifying that although China currently has a huge gap with the world in terms of scientific research instruments, Chinese scientists have already started and have shown good conditions.
China will fully launch independent innovation in scientific research equipment
Recently, the Condition Finance Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology organized Chinese scientists and scholars to gather in Beijing to discuss in depth the specific contents of the independent innovation of scientific instruments and consolidate the focus of China's scientific equipment during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†so as to improve the research of the “Eleventh Five-Year†scientific equipment. Development Planning. More than 20 academicians and experts including Jin Guofan, Liu Guangding, Wang Erkang, Yao Junen, and Zhang Yukui attended the seminar.