The implementation of the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education has pushed China's science, technology and education to a new development period. The party and the state first take measures to solve the problem that science and technology, education and economic and social development are out of touch. First, starting with organizational leadership, a national leading group for science and technology education was established to strengthen the leadership of science and technology education and coordination with economic development. By the end of 2003, the National Leading Group for Science and Technology Education held 14 meeting and made a series of important decisions to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education. Second, further clarify the working ideas. From 65438 to 0999, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council successively made the Decision on Deepening Education Reform and Promoting Quality Education in an All-round Way and the Decision on Strengthening Technological Innovation and Developing High-tech to Realize Industrialization, and successively held the National Education Work Conference and the National Technological Innovation Conference, making it clear that the focus of scientific and technological work is to strengthen technological innovation, develop high-tech and realize industrialization; The focus of education work is to deepen the reform of the education system and comprehensively promote quality education. Third, efforts should be made to promote the combination of science and technology, education and economic and social development from the aspects of system, mechanism, policy and concept. By comprehensively deepening the reform of science, technology and education system, we will accelerate the establishment of a new system of science, technology and education that adapts to the socialist market economy and is conducive to the integration of Industry-University-Research. Fourth, increase investment in science and technology and education, and strive to establish a mechanism that can mobilize all social forces to support the development of science and technology education. Fifth, while continuing to carry out scientific and technological research, the Spark Plan and the Torch Plan, a series of national-level scientific and technological education plans, such as the 973 Plan and the 2 1 century-oriented education revitalization action plan, have directly promoted the development of scientific and technological education.

After nearly 10 years of development, China's scientific and technological undertakings have achieved a new leap. The ability of scientific and technological innovation has been gradually enhanced, and the output of scientific knowledge has increased rapidly. Breakthrough progress has been made in high-tech fields such as manned spacecraft and genome research, and a number of original innovative achievements with important influence have emerged one after another, which indicates that China has made important progress in some frontier fields of science, and some key and key fields are close to or reach the international advanced level. The contribution of science and technology to economic and social development is increasing. From 199 1 to 200 1, the total industrial output value of China's high-tech industries increased from about 300 billion yuan to about180 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of more than 20%. The proportion of high-tech industries in the national economy has increased from about 1% years ago to about 15% at present. The vigorous development of high-tech industries has become an important driving force for national economic growth, and scientific and technological progress has become a powerful driving force for China's economic and social development.

China's education has continuously leapt to a new level, providing strong talent support and intellectual guarantee for socialist modernization. Basic education has developed rapidly. In 2000, most areas achieved the goal of basically popularizing nine-year compulsory education and basically eliminating illiteracy among young and middle-aged people as scheduled. The average educational years of the population increased from about 6 years in 1990 to about 8 years in 2006. The overall scale of vocational education and adult education has expanded and the structure has improved. The vigorous development of higher education, to a certain extent, conforms to the strong wishes of the people and meets the demand of economic and social development for high-level talents. In 2000, compared with the end of 1970s, the total number of professional technicians with technical secondary school education or junior professional titles in China increased by 3.4 times. The development of education not only cultivates talents, but also makes great knowledge contributions to modernization. The enhancement of scientific research strength in colleges and universities has become a new force in the field of scientific and technological innovation, especially basic research in China. In 2002, the national natural science foundation projects undertaken by universities accounted for more than 77% of the total projects, and the national social science planning fund projects accounted for more than 60% of the total projects. The development of education has become a key factor to promote the rapid development of China's economic aggregate, modernization and all-round social progress.