Xi Jinping's speech at the symposium on basic research has sparked responses from the scientific, technological, and education sectors

Xi Jinping emphasized at a symposium on strengthening basic research that basic research is the source of the scientific system and an important foundation for driving technological breakthroughs. Around this speech, people in the science, technology, and education sectors said they will further strengthen their sense of responsibility and urgency and continue to advance basic research. The article pointed out that as a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation accelerates, enhancing original innovation capabilities, optimizing the layout of basic research, and strengthening coordination among education, science and technology, and talent have become important tasks in building China into a leading science and technology power. Relevant workers believe that the speech provides a clear direction for strengthening basic research, cultivating young talent, and improving the innovation environment in the future. The report also mentioned that the speech called for increasing support and safeguards for basic research, improving the categorized evaluation system, improving the working and living conditions of researchers, and fostering an open, inclusive, and failuretolerant innovation atmosphere. People in the science and education sectors said they will combine their job responsibilities to promote highlevel selfreliance and selfstrengthening in science and technology.