28 May 2021, Volume 39 Issue 10

    

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Committing to serve the innovation-driven development
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  A review of the international non-governmental scientific and technological exchanges since the 9th National Congress of CAST

  BIAN Lihang, LU Pingli, SUN Yue, CUI Fujuan, QIN Jiuyi

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 15-24. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.002

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  The international non-governmental exchanges in science and technology is an important task of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), an important support for the national innovation strategy and an integral part of the country's diplomacy. Over the past five years, the CAST has improved its strategic layout for the scientific and technological exchanges with other countries. Due to the complex international situation and the outbreak of the COVID-19, the CAST has been working hard to broaden its foreign exchange work. On this basis, the CAST actively set up cooperation platforms and made full use of international scientific and technological resources to serve the country's innovation-driven development and opening up activities. This paper reviews the international non-governmental scientific and technological exchanges since the 9th National Congress of CAST, based on the relevant materials in recent years.
Committing to improve the science literacy of the people
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  Construction of a high-quality science popularization system to help building a New Development Pattern——A review of the achievements of China's science popularization since the 9th National Congress of CAST

  ZHENG Nian, WANG Weiying

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 25-33. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.003

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  Since the 9th National Congress of the CAST, the science popularization of China has developed steadily, and great achievements have been made in the construction of the citizens' scientific literacy, the national science popularization capacity and the science popularization ecology. The wing of the science popularization in China's innovation and development becomes more powerful. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China should strive to build a high-quality science popularization system, make full play of the science popularization in both political and value-leading roles, with good scientific and cultural qualities to realize the all-round development of people, and to help building a world science center and the innovation highland, as well as constructing a New Development Pattern.
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  History, present state, and future perspective of Modern Science and Technology Museum System with Chinese Characteristics

  MA Yugang, MO Xiaodan, YUAN Nan, LIU Wei, SU Qing

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 34-47. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.004

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  The modern science and technology museum system with Chinese characteristics built by the China Association for Science and Technology(CAST) has completed its synergistic development of the Science Wagon, the Mobile Science and Technology Museum, the Rural High School Mini Sci-Tech Museum, and the China Digital Science and Technology Museum, with features of the adequacy, the balanced coverage and the accessibility of the public service for the science popularization in China. This paper comprehensively reviews the achievements and the experiences of the system since its construction, as well as its shortcomings in the process of exploration and practice, with an outlook of its future development. In the context of the New Era, with new requirements for the science popularization in terms of holding the proper values, promoting all-round development of personality, serving the national development and the social progress, the System must respond, expand the connotation and the extension, strengthen the service function and promote an equal development of the innovation and the popularization of science and technology. Furthermore, the future of the System should be based on the integration of the scitech and the culture and the requirements of the market, to promote the social development, strengthen the theoretical researches and achieve the innovation.
Committing to serve the scientific decision making of Communist Party of China and the government
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  A review and outlook of the decision-making consultation work of China Association for Science and Technology in recent years

  REN Fujun

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 48-56. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.005

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  This paper reviews the decision-making consultation work of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), especially, the construction of the think tank for the science and technology innovation since the 18th CPC National Congress, or, the ninth National Congress of the CAST, as well as some successful experiences and typical practices. Based on the principle of "developing through inheritance and innovating through development", the future decision-making and consulting work of the CAST is prospected. This work is of certain reference value fur the decision-making and consulting work of the science and technology association system and other mass organizations and the construction of the innovative think tank.
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  Achievements, problems and suggestions on the construction of high-end scientific and technological innovation think tank of China Association for Science and Technology

  XIA Ting

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 57-64. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.006

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  This paper discusses the building of a high-end science and technology innovation think tank, with the National Academy of Innovation Strategy(NAIS,CAST) as an example, analyzes and explores the effective path for the China Association for Science and Technology to build the high-end science and technology innovation think tank. Based on the analysis of the achievements and problems of the China Association for Science and Technology in the construction of the high-end science and technology innovation think tanks in the past five years, the countermeasures and suggestions are proposed. It is shown that the construction of the high-end science and technology innovation think tanks of the China Association for Science and Technology should further clarify the mission and the positioning; strengthen the reform and the decentralization of the think tank institutions, optimize the operation mechanism of the science and technology innovation think tanks; better use the organizational advantages of the science association system, and enhance the influence of the science and technology innovation think tanks.
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  Analysis of the Supported-Research Project for the Representatives in the 9th National Congress of CAST

  WANG Yinqiu, SHI Yunyan, Xiong Xiaoxiao

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 65-71. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.007

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  As a bridge that links the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government with the country's science and technology community and with the fixed-term appointment of the representatives, the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) carries out the Supported-Research Project for the Representatives of the 9th National Congress of the CAST during the period from 2016 to 2020. Through the project, the representatives can make deep studies and give more proposals for the development of our country and the CAST. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the Supported-Research Project for the Representatives of the 9th National Congress of the CAST through the policy text analysis and the discussions with the project managers and the representatives, and the effectiveness of the project and the good experience are confirmed. Also, some deficiencies of the project and the reasons are analyzed, to support the proposals to improve the implementation of the project.
Committning to promote the reform and development of the national academic societies
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  International comparison on the development status of world class S&T societies: Based on the dynamic perspective of practice

  MENG Fanrong, MA Tianxi, YUAN Meng, MEI Pingping, CHEN Guang

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 80-89. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.010

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  As the global science and technology innovation has entered a period of unprecedented activity, the importance of the S&T societies becomes increasingly apparent. With the momentum of the national efforts to promote the development of science and technology, it is important for Chinese S&T societies to expand their international perspective and to better appreciate the overall situation of the global S&T societies. This paper takes the world's top S&T societies as an example, traces and analyzes the professional development dynamics of the advanced international S&T societies, and reviews the development of the world's top S&T societies, to provide a benchmark for deepening the governance reform of Chinese S&T societies, and to further strengthen the vitality and the creativity of Chinese S&T societies. The conclusions are as follows:(1) the domestic S&T societies emphasize the party leadership and the institutional strengths that reflect a strong cohesion; (2) foreign S&T societies are better at aggregating public resources and transforming new knowledge into usable products and services, promoting the integration of science and technology with the economy, the innovation chain and the industrial chain; (3) foreign S&T societies are good at making their voices heard in a variety of ways, giving a full play of their role as a think tank for policy makers and decision makers. (4) Substantive activities in the global S&T governance should be led by large international S&T associations. Chinese S&T societies need to pay attention to the construction of policy-making advisory think tanks, provide technical support for major government decisions, improve academic exchange platforms, create a good ecology conducive for the S&T workers to contribute their wisdom to the economic integration of the S&T, and promote mutually beneficial and shared international S&T exchanges and cooperations.
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  The international development of scientific and technological associations in China

  GAO Ran, QI Zhihong, CUI Zheng

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 90-98. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.011

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  With implementation of the open and shared international cooperation strategy by China, there is huge space and potential for Chinese scientific and technological associations to develop internationally. However, the internationalization process started very late in China, and the related theories and practices have still much to be improved. This paper considers the national associations affiliated to the CAST, analyzes the history and the current situation of their international development, and puts forward corresponding policy suggestions for Chinese scientific and technological associations to better play their roles in the global science and technology governance.
Committing to upgrade the home of science and technology workers
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  Influencing factors of scientific researchers' job satisfaction in China: Based on the 4th national survey of science and technology workers

  LI Kang, HUANG Chen

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 99-108. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.012

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  Increasing the enthusiasm and the initiative of the scientific researchers is conducive to fully releasing their capacity of innovation and creativity, promoting the construction of an innovation-oriented country, and achieving the high-quality economic development. This paper analyzes the effects of the characteristics, the research work, the talent evaluation, and the income distribution on the job satisfaction of the scientific researchers based on the national survey data and the binary logistic models. It is shown that the factors such as the income distribution mechanism, the social status, the job autonomy, the training opportunities, and the ability and performance-oriented talent evaluation mechanisms all have significant effects on the job satisfaction of the scientific researchers. Based on the results of the model analysis, this paper proposes to promote the implementation of a distribution system that is oriented towards increasing the value of knowledge, to improve the evaluation standards that are oriented to the competence and the contribution, and to create a social atmosphere of respecting the scientific researchers.
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  The historical development and the characteristics of the proposals given by representatives of China Association for Science and Technology

  BAI Lu, WU Xia, LI Ding

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 109-115. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.013

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  The proposals given by the representatives of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) during the National Congress of the scientific and technological workers play an important part in fully achieving the functions of the representatives of the scientific and technological workers. Also, it is an important form of participating in the CAST work. This paper reviews the historical roles played by the scientific workers, the characteristics of the proposals given by the representatives of the CAST, especially those on the enhancement and the fulfillment of the representative suggestions. This paper proposes to better organize the proposals of the scientific and technological workers for establishing a globally strong scientific country for China.
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  The distribution characteristics of inter-provincial mobility of high level researchers in China

  JIN Junbao, QU Jiansheng, WU Xinnian, ZHENG Yurong, BAI Guangzu

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 116-123. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.014

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  The flow of high-level scientific and technological talents is a topic thathas attracted much attention. The paper analyzes the distribution characteristics and patterns of the inter-provincial mobility in the 2014-2019 ESI of high level researchers in China. It is shown that the distribution of high level scientists in China is significantly unbalanced, mainly concentrated in the areas with developed economic and science-education resources such as Beijing, Jiangsu, and Shanghai; the net inflow of high level scientists is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Jiangsu and Sichuan provinces, the net outflow is mainly concentrated in the regions such as Jilin Province, Anhui Province and Liaoning Province; the net inflow institutions include mainly the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Soochow University and Fudan University, and the net outflow institutions include Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University. However, due to the large number of high level scientists in the CAS, the outflow proportion of the CAS is not significant. In the end, the results of this paper will help managers formulate the talent policies, improve the talent system, properly allocate scientific research resources, and utilize the global elite scientific and technological talent resources.
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  Analysis of the group characteristics of the talents brought in from overseas based on curriculum vitae analysis

  ZHAO Linjia, HUANG Yuanxi

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 124-131. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.015

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  With the curriculum vitae analysis and taking 2758 talents brought in from overseas in recent years as an example, a macro analysis of the basic situation of overseas talent returning groups is conducted. The analysis shows that among the overseas returning talents, males account for more than 90%, the average age of the overseas talents is 39.6 years old, with most of them in the range between 30 to 40 years old. The United States is the most important source of talents. The talents come mainly to a few areas such as Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong, and Zhejiang. The professional fields of the talents mainly include on life sciences, the information sciences, and the materials science. The personnel and the financial investment in the technological innovation environment are the most attractive factors of these regions. In order to better introduce those overseas talents, three suggestions were proposed. The first is to expand the talent introduction channel. The second is to to tilt the key introduction fields to the basic science areas. And the third is to take flexible measures for introducing talents.
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  Human resource in S&T, scientific societies, and S&T innovation performance: A panel analysis of China's provincial data from 2007 to 2016

  CHEN Zitao, MENG Fanrong, YUAN Meng, CHEN Guang

  Science & Technology Review. 2021, 39(10): 132-140. https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.10.016

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  The innovation is the first important driving force of the development. The human resource in the S&T is the mainbody of the S&T innovation activities, in innovation networks of the scientific societies and others. Based on the panel data of 31 provincial regions in China, this paper discusses the impact of the human resource in the S&T and the scientific societies on the S&T innovation performance. The main findings are as follows. First, the human resource in the S&T plays a fundamental role in the S&T innovation. Second, the scientific society's function with regard to the S&T innovation is through moderating the human resource in the S&T, but its direct effect is not significant. Third, the positive influence of the financial support on the S&T innovation should match the circumstance of the human resource in the S&T. According to the findings, the following suggestions are put forward. First, the human resource in the S&T and the personnel training of the S&T talents should be promoted to realize an innovation-driven development. Second, the scientific societies should be oriented as a service platform and be enhanced to stimulate the vitality of the national innovation system. Third, the resource of the S&T innovation should be allocated proportionally to enhance the capability of the national innovation system.