Abstract: This chapter discusses science in China. During the brief history of the People's Republic, the Chinese leadership's attitudes and policies toward economic development, education, and science have followed a course marked by repeated major, and often sudden, changes of direction. In the most general sense, the demands that China has been making on science have not changed in 30 years. Science must make China a competitive world power, and science must pull the hundreds of millions of Chinese people into the second half of the twentieth century. Given China's level of development, it seems quite reasonable that most of the country's scientific, human, and capital resources should go into applied research, development, and the adaptation of existing scientific knowledge and technology to China's needs.
Publication Year: 1979
Publication Date: 1979-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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