[Lushan Lecture] "Study History of Party, Carry Forward the Spirit of Innovation and Innovation-driven Development" by Chen Xiaohong, HUTB President and CAE Academician
2021-03-24
The 105th Lushan Lecture was held in the Lecture Hall in the Economic Management Complex on March 23. Chen Xiaohong, HUTB President and CAE Academician, gave a special lecture on the topic of "Study 100-year history of party, carry forward the spirit of innovation, and make a new progress in innovation-driven development" while imparting the knowledge of party history and talking about the road to innovation. The lecture was attended by Vice Presidents Zeng Fuqiu and Li Dingjun, and Chief Leader Nie Guoqing, and listened by the leading group of schools, professors, doctoral representatives, graduate students and undergraduate students. The lecture was presided over by Vice President Li Dingjun.
Chen Xiaohong, HUTB President and CAE Academician, dug deeply in explaining on four aspects: "Continue the spiritual bloodline from 100-year party history", "Enhance the confidence in innovation in historical review", "Strengthen the sense of mission of innovation based on a new era" and "Face the future and persist in making new progress based on innovation". She learned from General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the Party History Study and Mobilization Meeting, and believed that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech was impressive, broad-minded, and profound in thought, and clarified the significance of carrying out Party history study and education, put forward the clear requirements, and issued the call for learning. On this basis, she comprehensively and systematically elaborated on the spirit pedigree of the Chinese Communists, including the Red Boat spirit, Jinggangshan spirit, Long March spirit, Zunyi Conference spirit, Yan'an spirit, Xibaipo spirit, spirit of the war to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, and the spirit of fighting the epidemic as well as the revolutionary gene, emotionally told the heroic deeds of a large number of revolutionary martyrs such as Li Da, Cai Hesen, Zhang Side, Qiu Shaoyun, Yang Jingyu, Chen Shuxiang, Xiang Jingyu, and stressed the liability to vigorously carry forward the revolutionary tradition, inherit the revolutionary gene and maintain the spiritual bloodline of the Communists.
She believes that New China has gone through hundreds of years of development of science and technology in western developed countries in only more than half a century. The development of China in terms of science and technology is inseparable from the care of successive generations of central leadership. She reviewed the thoughts and calls of the older generation of revolutionaries such as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping on the scientific and technological innovation, eloquently described the touching spirit of the older generation of academicians and scientists such as Deng Jiaxian, Guo Yonghuai, Cheng Kaijia, Yu Min, Peng Shilu, etc., and called on everyone to carry forward the spirits of scientists such as the "two bombs and one satellite", manned spaceflight, Dongfeng, etc.
President Chen conveyed the important spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the technological innovation, analyzed the innovation-driven strategies of major developed countries, and introduced the innovation-driven strategies of China. She considers the innovation as an important way for the developed countries to maintain their leading positions in the new era, and for the developing countries to break through the middle-income trap, to become the high-income economies, and to transform from rapid development to high-quality development. She reviewed with pride a series of major technological innovation achievements China has made, such as the "two bombs and one star", manned spaceflight, Beidou navigation, Qinghai-Tibet railway, China bridges, indigenous aircraft carrier, high-speed rail, supercomputing, etc., and calmly analyzed the challenges faced by the current technological innovation of China. She emphasized the need to further enhance the sense of mission of innovation, work hard to strengthen the basic and applied research, and make great efforts to improve the original innovation ability and effectively solve the bottleneck problems.
Facing the future, President Chen interpreted the Outline of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China and Long-Term Goals for 2035and pointed out that the term “innovation” appeared 165 times in the full text of the Outline. The basic research, applied research, strategic emerging industries, the role of enterprises in innovation, new urbanization and social governance all depend on the innovation. She believes that our country has stepped into a new stage of development, with a more solid foundation and profound changes in development conditions, and the new opportunities and challenges await the further development. To get prepared for the opportunities and challenges, it is necessary to strengthen the national strategic scientific and technological power, enhance the technological innovation capabilities of enterprises, inspire the talents to innovate and improve the technological innovation system and mechanism. She also introduced the progress of the National Center for Basic Science and high-level scientific research projects led by her, shared her understanding and thinking on the scientific and technological innovation, and proposed to closely follow the deployment of scientific and technological innovation in the "14th Five-Year Plan" and implement the important argument for innovation of General Secretary Xi Jinping. She also suggested consciously embarking on a new journey of innovation and development in the new era, enhancing the skills to follow the path of independent innovation, and striving to be the leading power of science and technology in the world.
Finally, President Chen encouraged the students to lead innovation in the interdisciplinary integration, brave to break through boundaries, dare to explore the unknown, keep moving to new academic level and write papers on the land of motherland; improve the realm and humanistic literacy in the integration of science, humanities and art; expand the pattern in the integration of different cultures, learn to respect the differences of cultures, keep broadening the international perspective, and coexist harmoniously while learning from each other. In addition, she also hopes all teachers and students of HUTB to learn and understand the history of the Party, the history of New China, the history of reform and opening up, and the history of socialist development, and hold on to the great cause of socialist created by the people under the leadership of party and pass it on from generation to generation; promote the development based on the innovation, endure the great hardships, pioneer new ideas, take the path of innovation-driven development and jointly open up a new prospect in career development; adhere to the problem-oriented approach and carry forward the indomitable spirit.
The lecture of Chen Xiaohong, HUTB President and CAE Academician, studied the Party history from the perspective of innovation, sought the development from the perspective of Party history, centered on the overall situation of national development, focused on the frontiers of scientific and technological development, and evoked the wild enthusiasm from teachers and students with a broad vision, rich content, detailed cases and simple explanations. The students said that they will diligently seek the knowledge, dare to explore and innovate, strive to grow into high-quality innovative talents, and contribute their wisdom and capability in the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.
