"With ‘ Sharpen a sword in ten years ’ The spirit has achieved major breakthroughs in key core areas. " The new deployment and new requirements of scientific research in this year’s "Government Work Report" are exciting, exciting and thought-provoking.
It is no exaggeration to describe scientific research work characterized by long cycle, high investment, high risk, great difficulty and boredom as "grinding a sword for ten years". Faced with the huge opportunity cost and the long life cycle pressure, it is the "question of the soul" of the "rational people" group of researchers whether they can calm down and devote themselves to scientific research and dare to pluck up the courage to win the "crown" in science.
The key lies in the talent evaluation mechanism, and we must make up our minds to eradicate the disadvantages of "only papers, only professional titles, only academic qualifications and only awards". In the short term, it is necessary to "reduce the burden" and "untie" researchers and completely solve the problem of "researchers turning around funds"; In the long run, we should take the correct incentive mechanism as the "baton", regardless of the "hat", no threshold, and no regard for human relations, and hand over the project to those who really want to do it, can do it and succeed.
There is also the problem of income security for researchers. Although there is no longer the strange phenomenon that "those who engage in missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs", the problem of low income of scientific researchers still exists to a certain extent. Not long ago, there were reports that dozens of scientific researchers in an institution collectively resigned. This requires efforts to improve the social distribution mechanism guided by respect for science and embody that "knowledge is wealth".
Compared with "profit", researchers care more about "name". The sense of accomplishment brought to them by gathering wisdom to tackle key problems and devoting themselves to science is beyond all "benefits" and is a more common pursuit. We should give due social honor to those researchers who have made great contributions, and let these heroes on the scientific research front "make a name for themselves".
There is no smooth road to science, and it is full of reefs and shoals in basic research, core technology and "from 0 to 1" exploration. Researchers themselves also need to be full of ambition, enhance their sense of action, dare to put forward new theories, open up new fields and explore new paths, so as to sharpen their swords in ten years and try their best once! (Text/Wan Quanyong)