Xu Kuangdi: Chinese science and technology workers must endure loneliness, have resilience and determination to solve basic theories

"We now have a great power weapon, but we don't have a'fine organ' yet

Xu Kuangdi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in an interview with the "Chinese Science News" on the eve of the academician meeting of the two academies

He said that China's biggest advantage is its institutional advantage.

But unfortunately, many of our key core precision components have to be imported or imitated from foreign countries

"Core technology cannot be bought.

This is not a day's work

Xu Kuangdi believes that what we need to break through is the foundation and core parts

For example, artificial intelligence is now the most popular application, replacing humans with machines

Because enterprises think it is not worthwhile considering the cost, there is no impetus to engage in it

For this reason, Xu Kuangdi hopes that Chinese scientific and technological workers will be able to endure loneliness, be resilient and determined to solve the problems of basic theory and core technology

He confessed that the life of a scientist is actually very poor, not as great as imagined, "not even as dazzling as a journalist", "Scientists should not expect to attract attention, be determined to deal with scientific research, be able to concentrate, and be able to resist.

With the rapid development of China's economy, the scientific research conditions of scientific and technological workers have been greatly improved

"What is needed now is to strengthen the sense of responsibility to the country

Scientists if only the pursuit of personal enjoyment of life and treatment, Xu felt "This is short-sighted"

"When we are old in the future, we will look back.

In the 1950s and 1960s, many young people were inspired by the novel "How Steel Is Made"-a person's life should be spent like this: when he looks back on the past, he will not regret for wasting his years, nor because of his busy schedule.

  Xu Kuangdi hopes that when contemporary scientific and technological workers recall the past several years later, they will not regret that they have not participated in the great cause of the revival of the motherland
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