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Advisor Chen I-wan:Twenty-four countermeasures to reduce occurrence of suppression and strangling to challenging science and technology innovations
The author’s paper “Healthy & Rapid Development of Chinese Science & Technology, Economy and Society Call for Innovation Achievements Bringing Challenges to Traditional Basic Theories of Science and Technology”was published by “Impact of Science on Society” (Quarterly) No.2 Issue 2004 (June 25), an important journal of the Academy of Science of China.(CAS). In his comments to the above paper, a teacher in Guangzhou hit the nail on the head and wrote: Strangling challenging science and technology innovation achievements is the greatest destroying force to productivity! Being inspired by this, the author comprehensively studied what countermeasures should be effective against this, and accordingly the “Twenty-four countermeasures to reduce occurrence of suppression and strangling to challenging science and technology innovations” was proposed, and became the basis of the author’s speech at the “2006 China science and technology development forum” held in Beijing, Oct., 2006. The “Collection of theoretical research papers for leading officials of today”, published by the China News Publishing House, Oct. 2006, including the complete text of this paper (p912-926). Another important collection of papers has also confirmed its acceptance of this paper. The paper herewith is based on the finally text accepted by the above collection of papers.
1) The science community must admit to the public: Before being fully proved science hypothesis can not be used as a reason to suppress and strangle science and technology innovations!
2) Create conditions to allocate 25% to 30% of space of academic journals giving priority to enable “non-mainstream science and technology achievement papers/monographs” and “papers/monographs in dispute” get published by academic journals to recreating an excellent “hundred theories debate, and a hundred flowers blossom” environment for science and technology academics of China.
3) Establish necessary legal regulations to assure that researchers been academically attacked enjoy legal rights enabling them to publish refuting papers, programs or monographs, on the same journals, media (including internet media, TV), publishing houses which published academic attack on them.
4) Encourage the role of the internet in giving publicity and recommending “non-mainstream science and technology achievements” and inviting a more broader scope of in-depth reviewers and examination.
5) Science and technology innovations challenging the basic theories of conventional science and technology making efforts “through establishing social consensus to win acknowledgement to their innovations” should be encouraged, and not be opposed for any reason!
6) Chinese authoritative science and technology journals should be especially advocated and encouraged to publish science hypothesis proposed by Chinese researchers.
7) “Obtaining agreement by academicians and authoritative academic scholars” should no more be regarded as a condition of necessity for approving funding and awards to science and technology innovation achievements “challenging the basic theories holding domination position in their respective fields”.
8) “Opposition by authoritative scholars within the same concerned disciplines” can also no more regarded as a decisive condition for rejecting science and technology appraisals, science and technology research supporting funds, and awards, to science and technology innovation achievements “challenging the basic theories holding domination position in their respective fields”.
9) In the situation that major science and technology innovations concerning important interest to the State and the people's livelihood and reputation of China encounter resistance caused by academic interest or commercial interest of various small groups, the Ministry of Science & Technology has the responsibility to implement administrative power on behalf of the interest of the State and the people in organizing necessary science and technology appraisals and popularize such innovations through administrative power.
10) When the China Natural Science Foundation, 973 and other state science and technology foundations/institutions examine major projects concerning the interest of the state and the people's livelihood, or examine important projects involving substantial sums of funding, legal regulations should be established requiring to organize open, democratic and transparent hearings of witnesses, to which members of the main benefited parties, and non-mainstream scholars from the concerned fields, representatives from the concerned committees of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) are especially invited. The result of the examination and approval should be announced to the public and notified to the members who attended the hearing of witnesses, enabling them within a stipulated duration present their different opinions to the NPC, CPPCC, and concerned departments of the government.
11) Various funding facilities supporting science and technology development of China should invest with priority to “bold experiments” “challenging the basic theories holding domination position in their respective fields of science and technology”, and not concentrating funding support only to “seeking knowledge gradual development” projects chasing after the science and technology positions of the West.
12) During the examination and approval of major science and technology research rewards and their candidates, should not stick only to one pattern but give priority to those and their challenging innovation achievements providing effective economic solutions to major difficult problems encountered by the rapid and healthy development of China, and priority to those projects and individuals “challenging the basic theories holding domination position in their respective fields of science and technology” which/who exercise strong promotion effect to the further development of China’s science and technology innovation undertakings, and promotion to the younger generation of science and technology researchers, and to science and technology research activities of the masses.
13) The Chinese government should within the next two to three years allocate 25% to 30% of its science and technology research development supporting funds giving priority to projects which might achieve breakthrough in “challenging the basic theories holding domination position in their respective fields of science and technology”.
14) Inspire and encourage introduction of “non-mainstream science and technology achievements challenging the basic theories holding domination position in their respective fields of science and technology”, or even “non-mainstream science and technology research challenging the basic theories holding domination position in their respective fields of science and technology”, into universities for students to study, research and evaluate. Examination if universities can do so or not do so should be included into the evaluation standards on the levels of universities.
15) Allow, inspire and encourage university master/doctor degree candidates to select master degree/doctor degree subjects challenging the basic theories held by their professors.
16) The attitude towards science and technology personnel pursuing “non-mainstream research” should be added and included to the system examining the quality of work of academicians of the Academy of Science and Academy of Engineering, other senior level science and technology positions personnel, and science and technology administrative officials.
17) China should establish a Science & Technology Bo Le Award
(Note: Bo Le was an ancient Chinese scholar well-known for his recognition and support to unknown talented “small potato” personnel).
18) China should establish a system of “non-mainstream science and technology achievements appeal and evaluation committee”.
19) The proposed “non-mainstream science and technology achievements appeal and evaluation committee” should actively organize a general re-examination of all “denied projects”.
20) Urgent “salvation” measures should be adopted on various “non-mainstream science and technology achievements” experiences in danger of fading away.
21) Urgent “salvation” measures should be adopted on various original data of certain “non-mainstream science and technology research work” which might get loss with no such efforts; Massive scientific data held by mainstream science community should be made open and available to non-mainstream researchers.
22) Great efforts is required to develop Science Development Social Science in China.
23) The All China Science & Technology Association should urgently organize an information archive of Chinese non-mainstream science and technology research which also might get loss with no such efforts.
24) Effective measures should be adopted to control the more and more serious spread of “economy of meetings” and “economy of publishing” under the name of “promoting science and technology innovation”.
Welcome questions and discussions on the issues presented by the author. Address: Xin Shi Ji Commercial Center Rm.316, No.A2 Bai Jia Zhuang Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100020, China. Email: cheniwan@263.net
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