Technological Progress and the Economic and Social Development of the Tujia Ethnic Area

Author: Li Zhongbin / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: Three key points to note: pay attention to guidance, overcome negative factors in economic development, and consolidate the achievements of economic growth. It is especially important to strengthen reforms in production methods and lifestyles, discard outdated elements in traditional culture, guide the public to establish concepts of competition, innovation, wealth awareness, and risk awareness, thereby creating a favorable internal environment for economic development. Four, make full use of preferential policies in ethnic areas, and improve the legal system. The preferential policies granted by the Law of Regional Ethnic Autonomy must be implemented effectively to form advantages. At the same time, local regulations must be strengthened, with science and technology work emphasized as a key priority, attracting outstanding scientific and technological achievements to flow into Tujia areas, take root there, and encourage external individuals and entities to establish or lead science and technology industries in the region, providing preferential policies and support. In summary, only when the economy develops and self-development capabilities are enhanced can there be conditions and resources to focus on science and technology work. Conversely, only when science and technology work is well-executed can economic takeoff be realized.
3. Improve Quality, Strengthen the Team
To develop a commodity economy supported by science and technology, talent is essential, as well as the comprehensive improvement of the quality of the entire nation, because people are the carriers and sources of science and technology, and the main executors of science and technology work. Currently, three aspects of work must be prioritized:
First, stabilize the existing science and technology team and strive to expand it, providing corresponding social status and political treatment for those engaged in science and technology. This is not only for the current generation of science and technology personnel but also has a significant impact on mobilizing the next generation to dedicate themselves to science and technology.
Second, vigorously develop vocational and technical education to cultivate a large number of intermediate and primary technical talents needed in rural, pastoral, mountainous, and urban areas. Vocational schools should focus on training rural intermediate and primary technical talents and enterprise technical workers, making them leaders in promoting science and technology in rural areas and developing commodity economies, as well as skilled technical workers and core technical personnel in enterprises.
Third, utilize all available means such as radio, television, farmer night schools, and technical lectures to popularize and publicize science and technology among the general public, inspiring their enthusiasm to learn and apply science and technology through vivid examples of wealth creation through science and technology, thereby promoting the general improvement of production technology.
4. Expand Opening-Up, Enhance Cooperation
Reform and opening-up are the main themes of the world today. Ethnic areas must intensify reforms to achieve rapid development in the competitive market economy. Tujia areas should further deepen reforms, improve opening-up with domestic and foreign entities, among ethnic areas, and within Tujia areas themselves, absorbing advanced technologies and experiences from others to transform them into driving forces for their own development. At the same time, adopt flexible and diverse forms to go out and bring in, establish relationships with external research institutions and universities, strengthen cooperation, utilize their technological achievements and intellectual resources to formulate economic development plans for the region, participate in various economic and technological decisions, establish technology experimental zones or demonstration bases, help businesses carry out technological transformation and develop new products, making them an important think tank for economic development. Of course, research institutions and universities within this region should also shoulder the responsibility of advancing science and technology and revitalizing the ethnic economy, developing new technologies and achievements suitable for local needs and vigorously applying them to various fields to achieve better economic and social benefits.
Chapter 3: Adjustment and Consolidation: Technological Progress and Industrial Structure Adjustment (Part 1)
Science and technology are important factors determining the development strategy of the economy and society. The more developed science and technology is, the faster the economy grows. As a social phenomenon, the science and technology of productivity can only achieve long-term development and progress in the development of the economy and society. Therefore, the development of the modern economy is largely determined by the advancement of science and technology. Today, the evaluation of a country's level, speed, and degree of scientific and technological development is no longer solely based on the amount of investment in scientific and technological activities or the number of participants, but more importantly on its impact on the development, speed, and efficiency of the real material production sectors. Science and technology is productivity, and it is productivity. If science and technology are not organically integrated with economic construction and cannot effectively promote the modernization process of material production sectors, how can productivity be reflected? When examining the interactive relationship between contemporary science and technology and the economy, it is evident that science and technology are closely integrated with the economy, mutually restricting and promoting each other. According to Marxist principles, when we examine the historical evolution of the interaction between scientific and technological progress and economic development, we emphasize that science and technology are not only the mutual influence between people and nature in the process of labor but also the economic relationships that arise among people during the process of labor production. Science and technology are both means of labor and also the economic relationships that make the production process more perfect.