Ministry of Education: Over the past ten years, colleges and universities have won 90%of the first prize of national technology invention

Director of the Department of Science and Technology and Information Technology of the Ministry of Education Lei Chaozi.

Cover news reporter Su Yu

On September 27, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the results of my country's education reform and development since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Director of the Department of Science and Technology and Information Technology of the Ministry of Education Lei Chaozi introduced at the meeting that in the past ten years, colleges and universities won more than half of the National Science and Technology Awards, and won 60%of the national natural science first prizes and 90%of the countries in the past ten years. Technical invention first prize.

Lei Chaozi said that colleges and universities are the main position of talent training and gathering, and also an important part of national strategic technology forces, and assume the dual mission of scientific and technological innovation and talent training. The Ministry of Education continued to deepen the integration of science and education, strengthen scientific research and educating people, and steadily expanded by strategic scientists and leading talents in colleges and universities.

In the past ten years, there are more than 350 academicians of the two new colleges and universities, and the proportion of colleges and universities in the two colleges and universities has accounted for more than 50%of the two academicians in the past three times. The total number of fund winners is nearly 70%.

According to survey statistics, in 2021, more than 1 million graduate students participating in the research and development of science and engineering agricultural and medical research and development projects were doubled over 2012. The development of the country depends on talents, and the national revitalization depends on talents. In the past ten years, the technological innovation of colleges and universities has strongly supported the self -cultivation of innovative talents, providing source living water for the construction of national strategic talents, and has saved important forces for the high -quality development of economy and society.

He said that the breakthrough of each major technology is to give birth to new technologies and new industries, open up new tracks in new economic development, and form an important opportunity to form new advantages of international competition. For example, "Zhu Rong" landed on Mars, "Beidou" successfully organized the network, the first sampling of the moon, and the Hong Kong -Zhuhai -Macao Bridge was completed and opened to traffic. The C919 large aircraft was immediately delivered. In a series of major national projects, colleges and universities made outstanding contributions and consciously fulfilled their services. The mission of high -level technology independence and self -reliance.

In addition, only when the scientific and technological achievements are transformed into real productivity can we truly release the driving force for innovation -driven development. In the past ten years, the number of patent transfer and license contracts of colleges and universities exceeded 65,000, and the amount of patent conversion increased from 820 million yuan to 8.89 billion yuan, an increase of nearly ten times. There are two key factors to determine the results of scientific and technological achievements. The quality of scientific and technological achievements itself is internal cause, and policy incentives are external causes.

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