"rejuvenating the country through science and education" refers to comprehensively implementing the idea that science and technology are the primary productive forces, adhering to the principle of education, placing science and technology and education in an important position in economic and social development, enhancing the national scientific and technological strength and the ability to transform it into practical productive forces, improving the scientific and technological cultural quality of the whole nation, shifting economic construction to the track of relying on scientific and technological progress and improving the quality of workers, and accelerating the prosperity of the country.
The theoretical basis of the thought of "rejuvenating the country through science and education" is Comrade Deng Xiaoping's thought that science and technology are the primary productive forces. 1977, Deng Xiaoping put forward at the symposium on science and education: "Where should China start to catch up with the advanced world level? I think we should start with science and education. "Without science and education, there will be no hope for the four modernizations, and it will become an empty talk." Clearly, the development of science and education is the forerunner of developing the economy and building a modern and powerful country, and it is placed at the top of our development strategy. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Comrade Deng Xiaoping adhered to the core idea that "science and technology is the key and education is the foundation", which laid a solid theoretical and practical foundation for the formation of the development strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education".
The great significance of implementing the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education.
1) Science and technology are the primary productive forces, the development of science and technology is the decisive factor of economic development, and the fundamental task of socialism is to liberate and develop productive forces. Implementing the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education will help to realize two fundamental changes, adjust and optimize the industrial structure, cultivate new economic growth points, improve the economic benefits of enterprises, open up new market space and greatly promote the development of productive forces.
(2) Our government's strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education is the embodiment of its function of organizing and leading socialist economic construction and spiritual civilization construction. The performance of these functions by the state is conducive to promoting economic development and all-round social progress, improving people's material and cultural living standards, and realizing socialist goals and objectives; It is conducive to consolidating and developing the socialist system and achieving national and social stability; It is conducive to enhancing China's comprehensive national strength and enhancing China's international status.