"China" has become one of the "hot words" in the global science and technology community in recent years: top international academic journals have produced special issues on Chinese scientific research; the World Intellectual Property Organization praised China's patent "blowout"; the "New Four" "Invention" has attracted countless "fans" overseas...

Innovative wisdom helps scientific research breakthroughs, innovative applications improve the quality of life, and innovative vitality drives economic development. China's innovation has become a new source of power for global progress, and its significance to the world has become more prominent.

Scientific research breakthroughs come from China

An Nuojie, Greater China President of the internationally renowned science and technology publishing organization "Springer Nature Group", took out two "Nature" books that were published five years apart. The journal told Xinhua News Agency reporters somewhat mysteriously that the changes in China's scientific research in recent years are typical examples.

The first one was published in May 2012, and the cover article was a paper on tomato genome sequencing. The authors came from many countries and regions; the second one was just published last month. A group of quantum communication research papers are highlighted, and the authors are all from China.

Annojie explained: "The former is an excellent example of China's participation in international scientific research cooperation, while the latter highlights China's increasing independent breakthrough capabilities and its status in the international scientific research community."

The foreigner’s continued attention to China’s scientific research led him to give himself a Chinese name. The world’s top academic journal where he works also produced a “China’s Science Special” in June last year. It is rare that only one country's scientific research progress is the focus of introduction and discussion.

“In the past few years, China’s scientific research output has been growing, and the quality of related papers has also been rapidly improving,” Richard Monastelsky, editor of Nature magazine, told reporters Said, "Nature magazine hopes to take an in-depth look at the scientific development of this country."

Nick Campbell, executive editor of "Nature" magazine, expressed the driving force and world significance of the rapid development of China's scientific research. He said that the Chinese government attaches great importance to scientific research in driving innovation and economic growth, and is rapidly moving towards becoming a global leader in scientific research. In the next few years, China is likely to become one of the countries that contributes the most to global scientific research development.

As Campbell said, from Mozi's "message transmission" to Beidou network construction, from supercomputing's "power" to "Sky Eye" sounding... In the past five years, China has made breakthroughs in many major cutting-edge scientific research fields. , becoming an important force in promoting global scientific progress.

Look to the East for innovative applications

Basic science may be a bit "lofty", but applied technology is more "down to earth".

In recent years, there is an obvious phenomenon in the development of new technologies around the world: the concept or germination of new technologies did not originate in China, but they were combined with innovative applications and business models in China and achieved great success and then fed back to the world. .

Such examples are common. Typical examples are high-speed rail, online shopping, Alipay and shared bicycles, which are known as the "four new inventions". These innovative applications have not only become a shining "China business card", but also contributed positive energy to deal with the world's most common economic and social problems.

For example, high-speed rail provides an efficient and reliable path for world interconnection, online shopping provides booming "Internet business opportunities" to the world, Alipay transcends geographical restrictions and becomes a financial bloodline for easy buying and selling around the world, and bicycle sharing is in Countries spread the concept of green transportation and advocate healthy lifestyles.

“Inventions and creations make the lives of the Chinese people better and better, and also make China a country that makes positive contributions to the world and a country that makes the world feel warm.” said Wu Hequan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

China’s outstanding performance has made traditional Western innovation powers begin to “look east.”

“In 15 years of reporting on innovation in Eastern and Western countries, I have never seen Silicon Valley so concerned about China’s impact on Western technology,” global innovation expert Rebecca Fanning recently told Forbes " magazine wrote an article saying, "The new trend of 'copying China' is also often discussed."

The British "Economist" weekly also recently published an article pointing out that in recent years, China has "transformed" into a The leader in global innovation is leading a new round of world industrial and consumer trends.

Innovative vitality shines around the world

Like Annuojie, Australian Francis Gurry has often talked about "China" in recent years. The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization pays attention to China mainly because of the innovative vitality that China has shown in recent years.

“China has become the world’s largest applicant for patents, trademarks and industrial designs.” In April this year, Gurry, who came to Beijing to attend an event, told reporters.

What is even more amazing is the explosive growth in the number of patent applications in China. "In terms of international patent applications, the number of applications from China increased by 44% within one year," Gurry said. "China's performance is extraordinary."

Innovation in China has transformed from a guiding concept to an independent one Action is in full swing. The "Evaluation Report on the Innovation Capacity of Chinese Enterprises 2016" released by the China Academy of Science and Technology Development Strategies in August this year shows that Chinese enterprises have gradually become more active in carrying out innovation activities, with more than 40% of the companies surveyed having innovative activities.

The "2017 Global Innovation Index" released by the World Intellectual Property Organization and other institutions also shows that China has made further progress in the quality of innovation, becoming the "leader" in the innovation rankings of middle-income countries for five consecutive years. China ranks first in individual indicators such as domestic market size, knowledge workers, original patents, high-tech exports, and original industrial design.