Scripture Society's editorial | Spending scientific research funds better, three things still need to be promoted

The continuous growth of scientific research funds is of course a necessary condition for the improvement of scientific research capabilities. "Good" is manifested in three aspects: the right method, right person and right evaluation system.

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On August 31, the National Bureau of Statistics released data: In 2021, China's RD funding investment was 2.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.6%over the previous year, and the growth rate accelerated by 4.4 percentage points. Among them, basic research funds related to scientific research have increased by 23.9%over the previous year, accounting for 6.50%of RD funds, an increase of 0.49 percentage points over the previous year.

Compared with the level of developed countries, China's RD funds, especially the proportion of basic research funds, are still gap, but the gap is shrinking. From the perspective of the total investment, China can already be regarded as a great country in scientific research.

The continuous growth of scientific research funds is of course a necessary condition for the improvement of scientific research capabilities. "Good" is manifested in three aspects: the right method, right person and right evaluation system.

The "right method" refers to the continuous advancement of the reform of the scientific research fund allocation mechanism.

Since 2016, there are four copies of the reform documents of the funding management of scientific research projects involved in financial research projects issued by the central and State Council levels. The last one is the "Several Opinions on Reform and Improve the Management of the Central Financial Research Funding" in 2021, involving budget preparation of budget preparation Simplify and indirect funding ratio and 25 aspects. This means that the reform of scientific research funding under the existing ideas has entered the deep water area. How can I change the next step? The scientific research fund allocation mechanism is an important direction.

The financial support of finance mainly includes two ways: project system and stable support. At present, China's scientific research funding mainly adopts the "project system", and it is the main task of scientific research personnel in scientific research personnel. When scientific research resources are lacking, the project system can play a role in competitive selection. However, with the increase of scientific research funds, the stable support category may be appropriately increased to allow some scientific researchers to invest in scientific research activities without worries.

"Right" refers to people who make resources flow to those who have more capable and potential in scientific research.

From the perspective of scientific research laws and domestic and foreign experience, the youth group is a group that is particularly easy to break through in scientific research. It should be "picking the beams and the protagonist". The greater assessment pressure and life pressure are often trapped in various types of entertainment activities and administrative affairs, and become self -deprecating "green peppers".

How to make youth researchers be more free and lower into scientific research activities? It is necessary to further adjust and reform the scientific research system. The "Notice on Carrying out Special Actions on Like the Like the Living Action of Young Researchers" issued by the five ministries and commissions this year has begun to solve some problems and look forward to the results of the results. Of course, this is not to say that it is necessary to draw a line, and the essence is still the scientific research funding more about scientific researchers who are capable, potential, and willing.

The "right evaluation system" is to evaluate scientific research results, scientific researchers and scientific research institutions in a better way.

The policy level has repeatedly proposed "breaking the four Wei", namely "theory, the title of the job, the degree of education, and the only award." "Broken Four Wei" is not difficult. What is the difficulty of "Breaking Siwei"? What should I use?

At present, policy orientation is to establish a "multi -dimensional, classification" scientific and technological achievement evaluation system, such as different evaluation systems for scientific research results in different directions such as basic science and application science. And social evaluation. The general direction is clear, the key is how to land in the future.

In addition, the current evaluation of scientific research institutions is basically an additional evaluation of scientific researchers, but this method lacks inspections of various aspects such as the management capabilities and organizational capabilities of scientific research institutions, and there is room for further improvement.

"Scientific and technological evaluation is the command of science and technology activities", and the reform of the evaluation system is also the most difficult reform. How to build the evaluation system is more suitable, there is difficult to have standard answers all over the world. However, as the Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang said, to "the premise of trust", no matter what kind of evaluation system, the premise is to trust scientific researchers. Based on this, a constant exploring a scientific research law and in line with the current national economic needs Evaluation System.

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