工程师——从物质财富的创造者到可持续发展的实践者

Engineers: From the Creators of Material Wealth to the Practitioners of Sustainable Development

工程师为人类物质文明的进步做出了巨大的贡献,工程科技是工程师推动社会经济进步的手段。几个世纪以来,工程师的主要追求是不断提高劳动生产率,但是随着工业化的进程,不可再生资源大量消耗、环境的严重污染、对生态的无情破坏,给人类的生存和发展造成了严重的威胁。在这种历史背景下,工程师应担负起社会可持续发展实践者的光荣使命。中国在21世纪实现新型工业化和可持续发展将更加依靠工程科技的进步,工程科学的基础要从20世纪单纯追求规模、效益的模式转向建设4R(Reduce减量化、Reuse再利用、Recycle再循环、Remanufacture再制造)的循环经济,使工程科技不仅满足人们在物质文化生活方面的需求,还满足人们对生态环境的需要,工程科技将在高效利用资源、保护生态环境方面发挥积极作用。

Engineers have contributed enormously to the progress of human society in material wealth. Engineering science and technology is the method by engineers to promote social and economic development. For centuries, engineers are in pursuit of higher productivity. In the meantime, along with the process of industrialization, large quantities of non-renewable resources have been consumed. Environment has been severely polluted, and ecological system has been damaged. Under this condition, engineers who are the practitioners in society sustainable development should take on the glorious mission All these are threatening the survival and development of mankind. To achieve a new type of industrialization and a sustainable development in the 21st century, China will rely more on the progress in engineering science and technology. In the new century, the direction of engineering science and technology should be shifted from the model of concentrating on scale and benefits alone in the 20th century to circular economy with 4R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Remanufacture) as its feature. Engineering science and technology will meet not only the demand in people’s material life, but also their needs in protecting ecological environment. It will play an active role in using resources more efficiently and protecting ecological environment.