The 2004 enlarged winter session of the Leading Group of the Communist Party of China at CAS was held January 3-7 in Beijing. Chaired by CAS President and Secretary of the Group Lu Yongxiang, the meeting was attended by the leading officials of the Academy.
The 2004 enlarged winter session of the Leading Group of the Communist Party of China at CAS was held January 3-7 in Beijing. Chaired by CAS President and Secretary of the Group Lu Yongxiang, the meeting was attended by the leading officials of the Academy.
Based on a review of the progress and experience scored from the previous two stages of the national knowledge innovation program (KIP) piloted by CAS over the past six or so years, the conference participants focused their discussions on strengthening the Academy's S&T innovation capacity building and the blueprint for the third phase of KIP, which is characterized by "leapfrog development and sustainable development through innovation."
The meeting stressed that priority should be given to the development of innovation bases in the new development stage. These bases should be an important foundation for consolidating resources from both inside and outside CAS, readjusting structures, reforming systems and organizing major innovation activities in line with national strategic needs and the development of world science frontiers. They should also act as important platforms for concentrating innovation capacities and implementing system integration. Furthermore, they should provide an organizational guarantee for overcoming limitations of a research institute and giving a full play to the role of CAS as a national S&T center and a backbone and leader in the national innovation system.
The meeting held that the research institutes and innovation bases will constitute a basic latticework for innovation capacity buildup and groundwork for a novel system of matrix and grid management of innovative objectives that integrates S&T frontier issues with national strategic needs. The structural optimization and capacity consolidation should be promoted through key projects in major research orientations.
A drive of structural readjustment will be launched to set up new innovation units or network systems. Efforts are to be made to attract, train and concentrate qualified personnel, S&T strategists and top-notch researchers in the innovation practice and organization optimization. Measures should be taken to establish a secure resource supplying mechanism to meet the needs of the innovation bases and the sustainable development at the research institutes, and an effective mechanism for scientific management, evaluation and incentives.