邓小平南方谈话对我国科技事业发展的重要意义

The Significance of Deng Xiaoping’s South Tour Speeches on the Development of China’s Science and Technology

今年是邓小平南方谈话发表30周年。南方谈话科学总结了中共十一届三中全会后我国改革开放的基本实践和基本经验,精辟阐述了社会主义的本质特征,从理论上回答了长期困扰和束缚人们思想的许多重大问题。同时,南方谈话为在社会主义市场经济条件下解放和发展科技生产力、深化科技体制改革、促进高新技术产业发展和实施科教兴国战略提供了理论遵循和行动指南。重温南方谈话对我国科技事业发展的重要意义,有助于为新时代建设科技强国提供历史启示。(1)

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s South Tour Speeches. The South Tour Speeches scientifically summarized the basic practice and experience of China’s reform and opening-up after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, incisively expounded the essential characteristics of socialism, and theoretically answered many major questions that have long troubled and bound people’s minds. Meanwhile, the South Tour Speeches provided theoretical principles and action guides for liberating and developing scientific and technological productive forces, deepening the reform of scientific and technological systems, promoting the growth of high-tech industries and implementing the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education under the conditions of a socialist market economy. Reviewing the significance of South Tour Speeches to the development of China’s science and technology will help provide historical inspiration for building China into a world leader in science and technology in the new era.