Young talents take the lead in China's scientific and technological innovation A few days ago, the Research Report on the development of China's scientific and technological human resources (2020) released at the annual meeting of the China Association for science and technology showed that by the end of 2020, China's scientific and technological human resources had exceeded 110million people, with about 3/4 of the people aged 39 and under, and the characteristics and trend of youth are obvious. In recent years, a number of major scientific and technological innovations have sprung up in China: "Tiangong" scenic spot, "Chang'e" to the moon, "Jiaolong" to the sea, "Tianyan" sounding, "Mozi" Messenger, high-speed rail car, "Beidou" navigation, C919 large passenger plane... Behind all these, there are hard-working figures of core scientific research teams with an average age of less than 40 years. Talent is a strategic resource to achieve national revitalization and win the initiative in international competition. The development of scientific and technological talents in China is on the fast track, which provides a solid talent support for national scientific and technological innovation and the construction of a scientific and technological power. At present, the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform are accelerating, international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation are facing headwinds, and accelerating the improvement of China's scientific and technological innovation ability is the fundamental guarantee for China to achieve the scientific and technological level from catching up to running parallel or even leading. It is also the scientific and technological foundation for China to seize the opportunity of the fourth industrial revolution, and its necessity and urgency are needless to say. In the face of various challenges, China has continued to further promote the strategy of strengthening the country with talents and accelerated the construction of an important talent center and innovation highland in the world. In April this year, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to review the "national talent development plan during the 14th five year plan", emphasizing that we should firmly establish the strategic position of talent leading development and comprehensively cultivate, introduce and make good use of talents. The continuous release of the vitality of scientific and technological talents and the continuous improvement of the quantity and quality of scientific and technological talents are rapidly transforming China's continuous talent advantages into surging innovation momentum. The talent team continues to grow. China promotes the training of talents in an all-round way and encourages scientific researchers to climb the peak of science and technology. Over the past 10 years, China has continuously strengthened the training of talents in key disciplines and cutting-edge scientific and technological fields, and the scale of talents has continued to grow, and has remained the first in the world for many consecutive years. The center for security and emerging technology at Georgetown University in the United States once released a report that for every two doctoral graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in American universities each year, Chinese universities can cultivate about three. The report also predicts that by 2025, the number of doctoral graduates in these majors in China will be nearly twice that of the United States, with more than 77000. In addition, China implements an open talent policy, which not only introduces talents from different regions, but also makes good use of the advantages of "first try" in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and the Great Bay area, and optimizes international talent services through policies such as the reform of facilitating the entry and exit of talents and the direct application for China's "green card" abroad. The incentive mechanism has been continuously strengthened. China continues to deepen the reform of talent development system and mechanism, and build an internationally competitive scientific and technological talent system advantage. Talent oriented, trust, respect, treat and tolerate talents have greatly stimulated the innovative vitality of scientific researchers. At the same time, in the talent evaluation mechanism, bid farewell to the "one size fits all" talent evaluation, and discuss heroes with innovative value, ability and contribution. During the "13th five year plan" period, 2.13 million scientific and technological achievements across the country achieved technology transactions, 1.52 times that of the "12th Five Year Plan" period. By the end of June this year, the total number of valid invention patents in China had reached 3.906 million. In 2021, the number of domestic invention patents and PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) international applications in China ranked first in the world; China's global innovation index rose to 12th place and successfully entered the ranks of innovative countries. The innovation environment is constantly optimized. China makes good use of all kinds of talents and provides a broad world for talents to display their talents. Motivated by new measures such as "taking command of the list" and "horse racing", a batch of leading scientific and technological talents who want to do things, can do things, and get things done have taken the lead. Over the past 10 years, China has always placed basic research and cutting-edge technology development in a prominent position, laid out and built more than 40 major scientific and technological infrastructure, and made every effort to build an international scientific and technological innovation center and a comprehensive national science center. China will also tilt more scientific research projects to young scientific and technological talents. Among the first batch of key projects launched in the 14th five year plan, about 80% have young scientists' projects; Scientific research institutions at all levels and major scientific research projects in various regions have opened up "green channels" for young scientific and technological talents. According to the statistical report of China's scientific and technological papers in 2021, the number of papers in China's top international journals ranks second in the world; As of September 2021, the number of highly cited papers and hot papers in China has remained the second in the world. The achievements of China's scientific and technological innovation not only promote the development of self height and quality, but also go abroad with the construction of the "the Belt and Road" and take root in many countries and regions along the route, which not only adds new momentum to local development, but also improves the well-being of its people. The digital economy has become the key direction of China Africa cooperation, the green and clean energy industry is booming, the land surveying and mapping, precision agriculture, digital construction, smart port based on the Beidou system have been successfully implemented, and the R & D and production of covid-19 vaccine have been accelerated... It can be predicted that with the continuous release of China's scientific and technological innovation vitality, the world will have the opportunity to share more of China's scientific and technological innovation achievements. In the historical process of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, young talents are surging out like a spring, provoking the backbone of China's scientific and technological innovation. (sunyahui) (outlook new era)