On Science and Technology

Author: Jiang Zemin
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Science and technology are productivity; scientific and technological progress and innovation are decisive factors in promoting economic and social development. With the rapid advancement of world science and technology, in the 21st century, there will be new revolutionary breakthroughs in science, technology, and productivity. Comrade Jiang Zemin has always attached great importance to science and technology issues. He has accurately analyzed and grasped the trends of world scientific and technological development, promptly proposed far-sighted major decisions such as implementing the science and educationcountry strategy, promoting scientific and technological progress and innovation in China, and improving the scientific literacy of the entire nation, thereby enriching and developing Comrade Deng Xiaoping's idea that science and technology are productivity. To help a broad range of cadres, especially leaders at all levels and science and education workers, study Comrade Jiang Zemin's important remarks on science and technology, the Jiang Zemin "On Science and Technology" book has been compiled with the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. This book includes 49 important speeches, articles, letters, and directives of Comrade Jiang Zemin on science and technology from December 1989 to October 2000, many of which have been published for the first time. Some of the writings are excerpts from long speeches, and we have drafted new titles for them, with explanations in the preface.