What is the content of scientific and technological knowledge?

Science and technology are the primary productive forces. Nowadays, scientific and technological progress plays an increasingly decisive role in a country's economic and social development. We must unswervingly implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, truly put accelerating scientific and technological progress in the key position of economic and social development, form our own scientific and technological innovation system as soon as possible, and strive to promote the practical transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productive forces. This is a very urgent job. If we don't work hard to improve our scientific and technological knowledge and fully understand the trend of scientific and technological progress in the world today, it will be difficult to do a good job in leadership in this regard.

Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping all attached great importance to science and technology. They always keenly capture the social significance of every major scientific and technological discovery, thus enriching and perfecting their theoretical system and revealing the direction of social development and progress. Every major breakthrough in science and technology will cause profound changes in productivity and great progress in human civilization. 1848, Marx and Engels pointed out in the Producers' Party Manifesto that the productive forces created by the bourgeoisie during its less than one hundred years of class rule exceeded all the productive forces created in all previous times. The main reason is that science and technology made a series of new breakthroughs at that time. One hundred and fifty years have passed, and unprecedented changes have taken place in world science and technology. In this century, mankind's new discoveries and inventions in science and technology, as well as the new industries and new products born from them, are changing with each passing day. Especially since the middle of this century, great progress has been made in the research of atomic energy technology, space technology, microelectronics and information technology, bioengineering technology and new materials, which has greatly improved human understanding of nature and society and greatly promoted the development of productive forces. At present, mankind is experiencing a global scientific and technological revolution. Materials science, bioengineering technology, information technology, cosmology science and earth science are all developing rapidly, and scientific and technological knowledge is produced, disseminated and transformed at an unprecedented speed. 1998, many new achievements have been made in the development of science and technology in the world. Revolutionary changes in the field of science and technology will not only strongly affect people's production and lifestyle by promoting the development of productive forces, but also profoundly affect the world political, economic, cultural and military pattern in the next century. We should have a full estimate of this.

When I visited Russia last year 1 1 month, I gave a speech on science and technology in Novosibirsk Science City, which aroused widespread concern and great repercussions in the United States and some other countries. Foreign newspapers have also published many comments. Why does it attract their attention? There are two reasons. One is to pay attention to Sino-Russian scientific and technological cooperation, and the other is to pay attention to the historical impact brought by China's strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education.

To learn scientific and technological knowledge, we must first grasp the general trend of world development through this kind of learning and enhance our sense of urgency and responsibility in doing a good job. An important reason why western capitalist countries have been called world powers for hundreds of years is that they first mastered and applied advanced science and technology, and formed an overwhelming advantage over other countries in economy and military. Since modern times, China has been invaded and ravaged by western powers. In addition to decadent political rule, backward economy and technology are an important reason. We should never forget this historical lesson. If we don't keep up with the trend of scientific and technological progress and strive to improve the scientific and technological level of our country, we will fall behind. Once something happens, you will be passive. At this point, our senior cadres must be very clear-headed ideologically.

At present, the economy of some developed countries is developing in the direction of relying mainly on knowledge innovation and creative application of knowledge. This trend must attract our close attention. There are some high-tech industries in China, but a large number of them are industrial economies in the general sense, and there are even a large number of natural economies. In this case, is it too early for us to learn knowledge economy? Of course not. Everything that represents the future direction of economic development and scientific and technological progress should be grasped in time. We should give full play to the superiority of China's socialist system, combine with actual needs, selectively and emphatically concentrate on developing and applying the latest technological achievements, realize technological development by leaps and bounds, and occupy a place in the forefront of high technology in the world. If we don't do this, the gap between China and developed countries will be difficult to narrow and will widen.

Practice has proved that even countries with relatively backward overall scientific and technological level may make breakthroughs in some fields and links. In the 1960s and 1970s, we successfully developed "two bombs and one satellite", which greatly enhanced China's international status. It is reported that in the past five or six years, the Indian software industry has maintained an annual growth rate of more than 50%, far higher than the annual growth rate of 20% in the world software industry. 199 1 year, India's software exports are less than 50 million US dollars, and198 reached1800 million US dollars. In the global software development market designed according to customers' requirements, India has occupied 16.7% of the market share and is the second largest software exporter in the world after the United States. Many developing countries have realized the great significance of developing science and technology to their own economic and social development, and have taken measures to promote the development of science and technology. Although Malaysia has been hit hard by the financial crisis, it is still ready to speed up the establishment of its own science city. Not long ago, Newsweek published an article in the United States. After talking about the various science and technology cities such as Silicon Valley in the United States, it is considered that all countries in the world should build their own science and technology cities and have their own high-tech R&D centers, which is a major issue related to national security. If you don't do this, it will be irresponsible for the future development and security of the country. This makes sense.

Nowadays, new technologies and new knowledge emerge one after another. Even those who study natural science will soon fall behind if they don't study. As a leading cadre, if he knows nothing about modern science and technology, how to attach importance to and lead the scientific and technological work? Jokes such as "changing water into oil" and "perpetual motion machine" that violate scientific common sense, and superstitious activities such as astrology and burning incense to worship Buddha are still quite popular among a few of our comrades. Without the basic scientific spirit, how can we promote scientific and technological progress? Therefore, we should persistently study scientific and technological knowledge, break feudal superstitions and eliminate all kinds of pseudoscience and anti-science phenomena. If scientific and technological innovation and transformation are further improved, the stamina of China's economic and social development will be stronger.