The press conference held in Beijing on the afternoon of 6 May by China’s Association of Science and Technology (CSTD) on 6 May, revealed that the focus was on the reduction of science and technology workers, and that the third national innovation first award in 2023 built the STID (Scientific and Technological Identification) platform and created the “Scientific and Technical Identity Card” for the sole identification of talent in the sole science and technology talent code.
The Minister of Personnel of the Coco-operation of China, Lee Ping, gave a presentation on the progress of the third national innovation pre-selection and responded to media-related queries.
Lee Ping indicated that the focus was on the reduction of science and technology workers, and the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (ACC) had built the STID platform and created the “Science and Technology Identity Card” to achieve the only talent identification in the sole science and technology coding. STID has been deployed in this national innovation pre-winning system to give the declaration code, and in the future it will be possible to improve the efficiency and quality of fillings and reduce the burden of talent through a series of major talent science and technology events, such as STID, which brings together a series of journals, rewards, academic exchanges, etc.
At the same time, the third National Innovation Awards in 2023 took the form of “paperless nominations, evaluations” to achieve a “zero distribution” of candidates, nominated unit paper materials, and to allow candidates and nominees to “depend the way”.
Lee Ping noted that the third national innovation pre-birth recognition process in 2023 was characterized by high value gratuation, innovative talent evaluation mechanisms, adherence to a sound scientific ecology.
Focusing on value quotation, “four oriented” would serve as an important basis for the division of fields and reflect the value-oriented role of awards through classification evaluations. Among these are the world’s science and technology fronts, with greater attention to original, pioneering science and technology disciplines; the main economic battlefields, with a focus on building new frontiers of scientific and technological innovation, providing an inexpensive impetus for economic and social development; the country-driven demand, centred on the scientific and technological challenges of breaking up innovative development, making a prominent contribution to major engineering, major equipment manufacturing, the crushing of key core technologies of the “cabies” and the creation of major inventions; and the life-health of the people, focusing on enhancing the health well-being of the people as an important scientific and technological direction. In addition, social services have been set up, focusing on science and technology for the benefit of the people, leading scientific and technological workers to contribute to rural revitalization, shared wealth, and public scientific upgrading.
In the context of the innovative talent evaluation mechanism, the “categorization evaluation” has been tailored to explore the establishment of a “six-dimensional” comprehensive evaluation approach, led by “innovative values, capacities, contributions”. The first is the basic premise of a candidate qualification review that adheres to political standards; the second is to highlight academic ethics and to conduct scientific good faith inquiries for all candidates; the third is the introduction of representative results evaluations, requiring candidates to fill papers and works, patents, results-based conversions, representative engineering results, etc., not more than five contributions to key scientific and technological achievements; the fourth is to highlight academic impact evaluations, using part-time membership of major academic organizations or journals as an evaluation indicator; and the fifth is a “quality, contribution, performance, key award”, which highlights scientific and technological results, and the inclusion of major evaluation projects; and the six-dimensional evaluation of scientific and research results in the evaluation of clinical results of physicians. Through the above, talent will be effectively selected for high-quality development and the achievement of important scientific and technological innovations in the “innovative swings” initiative.
Insisting on the ecological aspects of sound scientific research, practical initiatives are being developed around the creation of a sound talent evaluation environment, ranging from recommended units, committee of experts management, staff conduct norms, selection procedures, expert composition mechanisms, candidate behaviour, to resolutely resisting negative winds and effectively safeguarding the integrity, impartiality and authority of awards.
It is understood that the National Innovation Prize was established jointly by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the State Council Committee of China, with an incentive cycle of three years, with an award of 10 places for advanced collectives, a rewarding team for science and technology workers, a national innovation slate, 300 for advanced individuals, and a national innovation scholarly award for 30 of them. The National Innovation Tribute was awarded twice in 2017 and 2020, and a large number of groups and individuals have made outstanding contributions in basic research and front-loading, major equipment and engineering, transformative results and innovative entrepreneurship, disease surveillance and poverty eradication, and social services. (concluded)