At present, the structural, institutional and cyclical problems of China's economy are intertwined, and the problems of unbalanced and uncoordinated development have become increasingly prominent. In the final analysis, promoting the transformation and upgrading of China's economic development depends on the endogenous power and vitality of development. Whether it is to promote the supply side structural reform or build a modern economic system, the key is to base on scientific and technological innovation, release innovation driven efficiency, make innovation the starting point of development, and build a new engine of development by innovation.

In recent years, China has actively promoted the innovation driven development strategy, continued to expand the reform of scientific research autonomy of universities and scientific research institutes, made efforts to improve innovation performance and increase the supply of scientific and technological achievements, improved the transformation chain of scientific and technological achievements, made more achievements in basic research, cutting-edge technology, high-end equipment, major projects and other fields. Behind the increasing leading role of scientific and technological innovation is the power of continuous deepening reform. However, the deep-seated problem that China's science and technology and economy are not closely linked still needs to be further solved, which requires us to break the barriers in the process of transformation of scientific and technological achievements as soon as possible, and work together with all parties to accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and deepen reform and innovation.

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Grasp scientific research evaluation mechanism and promote original innovation

To promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, it is necessary to establish and improve the transformation mechanism of scientific and technological achievements, and open up the innovation chain, industrial chain and value chain of industry, University and Research Institute. After years of development, China's basic scientific research has made great progress, but compared with the requirements of building a world science and technology power, the short board is still outstanding. It is urgent to improve the evaluation system of basic scientific research to make up for this short board and strengthen the weak link. In particular, we should pay attention to the construction of scientific research personnel and the implementation of scientific research incentive mechanism, stimulate innovation and creativity, encourage the cultivation of more top talents and teams, so as to comprehensively enhance the ability of scientific and technological innovation and win the strategic initiative in the new round of global competition.

Recently, the Ministry of science and technology and other five departments issued the work plan for strengthening "from 0 to 1" basic research, emphasizing the need to "establish an evaluation system conducive to original innovation", which provides important support for solving the problem of lack of "0 to 1" original achievements in basic research in China. At present and in the future, we should perfect the evaluation system of basic research as soon as possible, and make a scientific plan for it.

In addition, China has also introduced a series of reform measures to stimulate the enthusiasm and creativity of scientific research personnel and the vitality of innovation subjects, and implemented the distribution policy oriented to increase the value of knowledge, so as to make the transfer and transformation channels of scientific research institutes and universities more smooth.

On September 17, 2019, workers of Sichuan Huanlong New Material Co., Ltd. are packaging and producing "bamboos" natural color paper. In recent years, Meishan City, Sichuan Province, through policy guidance and financial support, has increased the technological transformation of bamboo manufacturing enterprises. After technological transformation and investment, the productivity and market competitiveness of enterprises have been greatly improved. (photo source: Dongfang IC)

Establish the communication mechanism between government and enterprise, dredge the transformation chain

In order to promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, we need to overcome the problems of "acclimatization" and "incoherence". This requires the government to establish a smooth and effective communication mechanism between government and enterprises, adopt various ways to timely listen to the reflection and demands of market players in scientific and technological innovation, and encourage and support market players to expand innovation space.

In the past two years, in order to solve the problems such as lack of undertaking carrier and no place for project implementation, Baotou rare earth high tech Zone in Inner Mongolia has established a project undertaking mechanism, planned and constructed No.2 industrial base of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Baotou new material industrial park of Shanghai Jiaotong University, providing independent special achievement transformation bases for the pilot test and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements of the two institutes. Since the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia, Baotou Rare Earth High-tech Zone has been strictly deployed, scientifically coordinated and prejudged in advance, and on the basis of ensuring strict implementation of the various measures and measures for preventing and controlling the epidemic, we should orderly promote the resumption and resumption of production, effectively solve the difficulties and problems faced by enterprises in the resumption of work and effectively stabilize the regional economic development.

In the process of dredging the transformation chain of scientific and technological achievements, the government should make good use of the "igniter" of the reform engine of scientific and technological innovation, establish a technological innovation system with enterprises as the main body, market as the guidance and deep integration of production, teaching and research, strengthen the construction of pilot bases for transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and improve long-term mechanisms such as policy support, factor investment, incentive guarantee, service supervision, etc., and support those with conditions Enterprises undertake major national science and technology projects to build and maintain the ecological environment supporting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

On April 1, 2020, the unmanned GPS satellite navigation seeder sows cotton in Tarim township. (photo source: Dongfang IC)

Take market demand as guidance, adapt to industrial development

According to the national technology market transaction Bulletin released by the Ministry of science and technology, the transaction volume of China's technology contracts exceeded 2 trillion yuan for the first time in 2019. This remarkable report card not only reflects the strong market demand for technology, but also shows the great potential of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in China.

An important reason for the unsmooth transformation of scientific and technological achievements lies in the mismatch between scientific and technological achievements and industrial development demand. To promote the formation of a virtuous circle of transformation of scientific and technological achievements, we need to give full play to the guiding role of the market in the direction of technological research and development, route selection, factor price and allocation of various innovative elements. Only by means of market, can technology be freely circulated as a kind of market element, can transaction cost be reduced, technology innovation end and product supply side closely cooperate to form strong support for industrial development.

Of course, giving full play to the driving role of the market in the ecological chain of scientific and technological achievements will also help to establish a market-oriented output mechanism, guide universities, scientific research institutes and innovative enterprises to carry out scientific research and tackle key problems facing the reality of the people's livelihood, the world's scientific and technological frontier, the main economic battlefield, and the major national development needs, so as to accelerate the transformation of new technologies and new achievements In order to further deepen the reform of the science and technology system and improve the efficiency of innovation, we should make timely use of the technology to make up for the weak points, strong and weak items, and plug up loopholes. (Economic Daily - Zang Mengya, China economic network)

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