Delegates at the meeting discuss strengthening basic research: sustained investment to achieve new breakthroughs

The delegates at the meeting, in discussing the spirit of the symposium on strengthening basic research, said that basic research should be treated as a longterm task and steadily advanced, so as to keep pushing scientific research to make new progress. The article was published on May 3 and came from People's Daily. It mainly introduced the study reflections of representatives from relevant research institutes, universities, and enterprises on the important speech at the symposium. The delegates believed that basic research is the source of technological innovation and also an important support for achieving highlevel selfreliance and strength in science and technology. In recent years, China has continuously improved its basic research capacity by optimizing its research layout, increasing investment, and reforming institutional mechanisms, while the conditions for researchers to carry out original innovation have also been improving. A number of delegates,结合 their own organizations' research directions, proposed that they will continue to focus on cuttingedge fields and national needs to deepen key research efforts, strengthen talent cultivation and industryuniversityresearch collaboration, promote tighter integration of basic research, applied research, and the transformation of achievements, and further enhance original innovation capability and the level of innovation.