Chapter 490: Fighting to Speak
The symposium officially began at nine o'clock in the morning, although the person in charge had made it clear before the meeting.
The reason I invited everyone here this time is to solicit everyone's opinions and see how scientific research and education can develop faster and better.
He told everyone to be more relaxed during the meetings these days, to say whatever they want to say and to speak as long as they want. If they can't finish in one day, they can speak for two days. In short, they must speak freely.
The leader said so, but the participants were not mentally prepared at all. It was only at this time that everyone understood the purpose of the trip.
Perhaps because they had some concerns in their hearts, everyone was quite cautious in the following speaking session.
After the first day of the meeting, Lin Siqiao's impression could be summed up in eight words: everyone in the court, both civil and military officials, was hesitating.
But we can't blame them for this, after all, this matter is not that simple.
Fortunately, today is only the first day of the meeting.
That night, several experts and scholars gathered together on the pretext of helping with digestion after a meal. After brainstorming, everyone changed their thinking.
As soon as the symposium started the next day, Professor Shu, a representative from Fudan University, raised his hand to speak. He did not exaggerate his own suffering, but described in detail the difficulties faced by scientific research today.
Take their Fudan Research Institute for example. They originally had nearly a hundred professional scientific researchers, but during the more than ten years of the great movement, all of them were "sent" out by the Red Committee for various reasons.
Some of them went to the countryside, some changed their careers, and some became frustrated because of this.
A good research institute was ridiculed by everyone as a 'police station'!
What hurt him the most was that the equipment in the institute was destroyed by human violence, and the scientific research materials he had painstakingly researched for half his life were treated as waste paper.
If he were ten years younger, he could just start over again.
But he is already 55 years old this year, and all the scientific researchers sitting in the audience have gray hair. How many more years can they work hard?
Having said this, Professor Su looked at everyone on the stage.
"We are confident and believe that China has the ability to take technology to the next level."
"But the biggest problem facing us right now is the severe shortage of scientific researchers. I implore all leaders to pay attention to this issue."
As soon as Professor Su finished speaking, Professor Tang from Jilin University also stood up.
The focus of his speech was on the word "gap".
To put it bluntly, it is the current China, whether it is the means of scientific experiments, the number and quality of scientific research teams, and research results.
These are all far behind those of developed countries.
Of course, Professor Tang also knows that no one likes to hear what he says, but facts are facts. If you don’t even dare to face yourself, how can you talk about catching up with Europe and the United States?
After hearing what Professor Tang said, several academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were deeply moved.
Do you think people abroad are really smarter than them?
No!
In fact, as early as 1956, after the country put forward the slogan of "march toward science" and formulated the "12-year science and technology plan", China has achieved considerable results in the development of biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy and other fields.
In 1930, China independently developed its first electron tube computer. In the same year, China's first atomic reactor cyclotron began operation.
In 2000, the Institute of Biology successfully disassembled and reassembled the chains of natural insulin.
In 2001, China's first experimental sounding rocket was successfully launched.
In 1989, China's first ruby laser was successfully developed.
In 1937, the atomic bomb test was successfully completed. At the same time, China also successfully synthesized bovine insulin, becoming the first country in the world to artificially synthesize protein!
In 1937, the hydrogen bomb test was successful.
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If China continues to develop at this pace, who can say that it will not surpass Europe and the United States?
However, no one expected that the advent of the Great Movement would cause China's scientific research development to stagnate.
In the following decade, other countries have been focusing on development and progress, while China has been standing still. Isn't the gap getting bigger day by day?
Thinking of this, several academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences could no longer sit still. They raised their hands to speak, and the topics they discussed became more and more sensitive.
In front of all the leaders, the academicians collectively accused certain units and certain individuals of "inaction" and "misconduct" in their work! The criticism is directed at the existing educational shortcomings.
Now that things have come to this, it is natural for people from the Ministry of Education to come out and express their stance.
So on the third day of the symposium, the topic of discussion shifted from scientific research to education.
The textbooks used across the country today were all compiled in the 1960s. Take the Chinese language subject for example, the junior high school Chinese textbook has only more than ten articles in total.
Most of them are excerpts from newspapers and magazines.
Moreover, the physics here is not called physics, it is called industrial basic course, and chemistry is not called chemistry, it is called agricultural basic course.
Just from the title of the book, you can tell how simple the content taught in these courses is.
If we want to strengthen our country through education, the importance of textbooks is self-evident.
The second issue is the social status and treatment of teachers.
That morning, Director Liu of the Higher Education Department spoke on these points for more than two hours, and his views were recognized by everyone present.
While Lin Siqiao was clapping, his eyes subconsciously looked at the person in the crowd, who was a professor at Wuhan University.
Although all the scholars present had the idea of reinstating the college entrance examination, this was the first person to formally propose it and speak it out in public.
Lin Siqiao originally thought that the other party would take advantage of this opportunity, but unexpectedly, the other party just frowned and said nothing.
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