Abstract
China’s rising capability in science, technology and innovation to a certain extent has to do with “a grand experiment” that started 15 years ago when the Chinese government released the National Medium and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology (2006–2020) (MLP). MLP launched the indigenous innovation strategy and set goals to turn China into an innovation-oriented country. The junction when the old MLP phased out and a new MLP (2021–2035) will soon be introduced holds greater historical and practical significance for the Chinese and international scientific communities to make sense of planning for science. This paper reviews the progress achieved in implementing the MLP, analyzes the daunting challenges facing China to become an innovation-oriented nation, discusses the implications of planning science for the Chinese and international scientific communities, and speculates on what might be included in the new MLP.
Highlights
China’s rising capability in science, technology and innovation to a certain extent has to do with “a grand experiment” that started 15 years ago when the Chinese government released the National Medium and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology (2006–2020) (MLP)
The efforts to foster the indigenous innovation capability, as MLP stipulated, had been reinforced by the 11th, 12th, and 13th FYPs with specific programs written into respective FYPs and carried out (Appelbaum et al, 2016)
- increasing the nation’s gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) as a percentage of GDP (GERD/GDP or R&D intensity) to 2.5%; - increasing the contribution of Science and Technology (S&T) progress to economic growth (STP) to 60% or more; - reducing the degree of dependence upon foreign technology (DFT) to 30% or less; and - making China one of the top five countries in the world in terms of the number of invention patents granted to its citizens and citations of international scientific papers to its authors
Summary
China’s rising capability in science, technology and innovation to a certain extent has to do with “a grand experiment” that started 15 years ago when the Chinese government released the National Medium and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology (2006–2020) (MLP). In early 2006, China’s State Council, or the cabinet, released the National Medium and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology (S&T) (2006–2020) (MLP).
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