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Innovation is the first driving force leading development. If we seize innovation, we will seize the "bull's nose" that affects the overall economic and social development. At the 20th Academician's Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 15th Academician's Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that innovation does not matter the origin of heroes, regardless of where they come from, we should "make the heroes of scientific and technological personnel with genuine talents useful". This important statement profoundly clarifies the role of innovation in national development and construction, reflects the clear orientation of advocating innovation and not asking about "origin", and encourages thousands of enterprises and scientific and technological workers to devote themselves to science and technology, and strive to make China the innovation highland of the world.

Innovation does not ask for "origin", which is to establish and improve the system and mechanism of "unveiling the banner" and create an environment of equal competition. Innovation often brings about the survival of the fittest and the innovation of the old, which is consistent with the law of market economy. Looking back at the world history and the history of science and technology since modern times, it can be clearly seen that the major progress in science and technology and the major breakthrough in the field of innovation were not born from mutual competition. At present, China's economic aggregate has ranked the second in the world, but the problem of large but not strong is still prominent, mainly reflected in the lack of strong innovation ability and the restriction of key core technologies on others. This is the "Achilles heel" of China's economic giant. In view of the problems hindering China's improvement of innovation capability and efficiency, the 14th Five Year Plan and the Outline of Vision Goals for 2035 clearly pointed out that we should implement systems such as "unveiling the list and taking the lead" and "horse racing", and improve the system and mechanism of scientific and technological innovation. The implementation of the system of "unveiling the list and taking the lead" and "horse racing" is to enable enterprises, research institutes and researchers to compete fairly and stimulate innovation. As long as it is helpful to the research and development of key core technologies and the improvement of China's social productivity, we will not refuse. To solve the hidden danger of core technology being controlled by others and improve the ability of independent innovation, the key is to create an environment in which innovation does not ask for "origin", regardless of qualification, without setting a threshold, select talents, and focus on practical results, so that all qualified and powerful market players can participate in the competition fairly and stimulate the innovation enthusiasm of the whole society; We need to improve the system and mechanism of scientific and technological innovation, provide sufficient innovation resources to all enterprises, institutions and individuals who want to innovate and can innovate, and ensure that the capable are superior, the mediocre are inferior, and the inferior are eliminated.

Innovation does not ask for "origin", which is to encourage enterprises to innovate and play the decisive role of the market in allocating innovation resources. Engels once said: "Once the society has a technological need, it will be more able to push science forward than ten universities." Scientific and technological innovation is not just research in the laboratory, but must transform the achievements of scientific and technological innovation into a real driving force to promote economic and social development. Give full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of innovation resources and the main role of enterprises in innovation, and let the urgent and long-term needs of the country dominate the selection of scientific research topics and resource allocation. This is the fundamental policy of focusing on innovation without asking for "origin". In recent years, China has invested a lot in core technology research and development, but the effect is not very obvious. For example, in agriculture, many seeds are largely dependent on foreign countries, and the planting and processing technology of agricultural products is relatively backward; In industry, some key core technologies are restricted by people, and some key components, parts and raw materials rely on imports; In terms of society, the lagging development of science and technology in areas such as biomedicine and medical equipment has become increasingly prominent; wait. To solve the problem of "two skins" of scientific research and economy and improve the efficiency of scientific and technological innovation in China, it is necessary to focus on innovation without asking about "origin", promote enterprises to become the main body of technological innovation decision-making, R&D investment, scientific research organization and achievement transformation, and cultivate a group of innovative leading enterprises with outstanding core technological capabilities and strong integrated innovation capabilities. At the same time, we should give play to the market's guiding role in the direction of technology research and development, route selection, factor prices, and allocation of various innovative factors, so that the market really plays a decisive role in the allocation of innovative resources; We should improve long-term mechanisms such as policy support, factor input, incentive guarantee, and service supervision to drive the vigorous development of new technologies, new products, and new business types; We should accelerate the transformation and application of innovative achievements, thoroughly break through the barriers, and break the bottleneck of realizing the "one-stop" transformation of technological breakthroughs, product manufacturing, market models, and industrial development.

Innovation, regardless of "origin", is to break the seniority and consolidate the talent base for innovation and development. Hard power and soft power, in the final analysis, depend on talent strength. All the history of science and technology has proved that whoever has first-class innovative talents and scientists can take advantage in scientific and technological innovation. Our Party has always insisted on selecting and appointing talents, and has taken the selection and appointment of talents as a key and fundamental issue related to the cause of the Party and the people. At present, China is still short of high-level innovative talents, especially scientific and technological leaders; The talent evaluation system is unreasonable, and the phenomenon of focusing on papers, professional titles and academic qualifications still exists, and talent "hats" fly everywhere; The talent management system does not meet the requirements of scientific and technological innovation and the law of scientific and technological innovation; wait. To solve these problems, we must focus on innovation without asking about "origin", take the reform of the scientific research evaluation system as a breakthrough to stimulate the innovation vitality of scientific and technological innovators, resolutely eliminate the "paper only, professional title only, education only, award only", improve the evaluation system of scientific and technological talents oriented by innovation ability, quality, effectiveness, and dedication, and build a hero based on real talent and practical learning to encourage exploration The atmosphere of tolerance for failure, respect for talents and respect for creativity makes innovation a value orientation, a social culture and a vivid situation of full flow of innovation sources.

(Source of this article: Economic Daily Author: Liu Ming, Xi Jinping Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in a New Era, National Defense University)