Building a national laboratory system with Chinese characteristics is the responsibility of domestic instruments

[ Hot Focus on Chemical Machinery and Equipment Network ] In today's world, technological competition is the main battlefield for the game of great powers
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Adhering to the independent innovation of science and technology and realizing the self-reliance and self-improvement of science and technology are important conditions for China to seize strategic opportunities and seize the commanding heights in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation
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The breakthrough of scientific and technological strength needs to rely on a variety of elements, of which a very important point is the construction of the national laboratory system
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The laboratory is a place for conducting basic research and applied basic research, as well as a base for cultivating talents and exchanging academics
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Laboratory construction is of great significance for promoting the development of disciplines, nurturing scientific and technological innovation achievements, and solving major scientific and technological problems
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China's scientific and technological strength is rapidly increasing, and innovative achievements are constantly emerging.
However, compared with developed countries in the West, there are still problems such as the lack of major original achievements and the lack of world-class leading scientists in many fields
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With the increasingly fierce competition in international environmental science and technology, the importance of insisting on innovation has become increasingly prominent, and China has also paid more and more attention to the construction of the national laboratory system
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　　As the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", in 2021, China has issued a series of policies to support the construction of national laboratories and the construction of national key laboratory systems
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　　The 2021 government work report requires strengthening the national strategic scientific and technological strength, promoting the construction of national laboratories, and improving the layout of scientific and technological projects and innovation bases
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　　The 2021 National Science and Technology Work Conference will "promote the construction of national laboratories and the reorganization of the national key laboratory system, and strengthen the basic capabilities of scientific and technological innovation" as one of the key tasks to be done in 2021
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　　The "14th Five-Year Plan" outline also proposes to accelerate the construction of a strategic scientific and technological force led by national laboratories
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Focus on quantum information, photonics and micro-nano electronics, network communications, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, modern energy systems and other major innovation fields to form a number of national laboratories, reorganize national key laboratories, and form a laboratory system with reasonable structure and efficient operation
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　　After the successful completion of the initial deployment of the "14th Five-Year Plan", the center of science and technology work in 2022 will turn to the implementation of science and technology policies.
In terms of the national laboratory system, it is necessary to strengthen the overall planning of disciplines, task implementation, resource allocation, etc.
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It is a national laboratory system with Chinese characteristics with laboratory as the core and national key laboratories as the support
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　　How to build a high-level national laboratory? The top-level design is important, but the participants in all aspects cannot be ignored either
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Instruments and equipment are the core hardware conditions of the laboratory.
In the construction of the national laboratory system with Chinese characteristics, domestic instruments play an important role
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　　On the one hand, national laboratories must meet the urgent needs of the country and society as the main purpose, and the instruments configured in the laboratory also need to have corresponding performance levels
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For the research on frontier issues of many disciplines, it is difficult for ordinary equipment to meet the research needs, and high-end scientific instruments must be developed
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For example, the national key research and development plan "basic scientific research conditions and major scientific instruments and equipment research and development" key special projects are based on the major needs of scientific and technological innovation and economic and social development in China for scientific instruments and equipment, and independently develop key core technologies and components, so as to provide China's scientific and technological development.
necessary tools
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　　On the other hand, to achieve independent self-improvement in scientific and technological innovation, we must solve the problem of "stuck neck" in various fields
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Scientific instruments, whose high-end market is almost monopolized by foreign brands, are also one of them
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The suppression of China in the field of chips has sounded the alarm for the instrument industry
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At present, the high-end instruments and equipment used in domestic laboratories are mainly imported.
Without mastering the key core technologies, once the technology is blocked, China's scientific research undertakings will suffer a serious blow
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Therefore, the construction of a national laboratory system with Chinese characteristics also needs to support the development of domestic instruments, so that domestic instruments become the mainstream tools of scientific research in China
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　　In order to realize the domestic replacement of scientific instruments, China has been taking action
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On December 24, 2021, the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Progress in Science and Technology" was revised and passed, which clearly stipulates:
 

　　"For domestic natural persons, legal persons and unincorporated organizations, scientific and technological innovation products and services shall be purchased by the government on the condition that the functions, quality and other indicators can meet the needs of government procurement; if they are put on the market for the first time, government procurement shall be the first to purchase, and shall not be purchased on the basis of Restricted on business performance grounds
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　　The products purchased by the government are yet to be researched and developed, and are implemented by ordering
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The purchaser shall preferentially determine scientific and technological research and development institutions, institutions of higher learning or enterprises to conduct research and development by competitive means, and purchase products as agreed upon after the product research and development is qualified
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　　This means that support for domestic instrument procurement has been determined in the form of basic laws in the field of science and technology
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This is a major benefit for the domestic instrument industry
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　　The construction of the national laboratory system requires the participation of domestic instruments, and the participation of domestic instruments is also encouraged
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As of 2020, there are a total of 522 state key laboratories in operation in China, which are distributed in manufacturing, biology and agriculture, medicine, materials science and other fields; 5 national laboratories have been established, including the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory , National Laboratory of Electron Positron Collider, Beijing Tandem Accelerator Nuclear Physics National Laboratory, Lanzhou Heavy Ion Accelerator National Laboratory and Qingdao National Laboratory of Marine Science and Technology
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At the same time, a large number of laboratories are under construction
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A large number of laboratories provide an important market and application space for domestic instruments
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However, blacksmithing still needs to be hard on its own.
With the support of policies, the domestic instrument industry needs to continue to innovate and make breakthroughs in order to play its due role in the construction of the national laboratory system
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　　Original title: Building a national laboratory system with Chinese characteristics is the responsibility of domestic instruments