Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 9th Title: Improve the overall efficiency of the agricultural science and technology innovation system! This implementation opinion has made clear arrangements

Xinhua News Agency reporter Gu Yiping

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and seven other departments recently jointly issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Implementation of the Overall Efficiency of the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation System." The reporter noticed that the implementation opinions focus on better leveraging the forces of scientific research institutes, enterprises, talents, etc., and deploy and promote the improvement of the overall efficiency of the agricultural science and technology innovation system, so as to "add firewood and add fire" to agricultural science and technology innovation.

Scientific research institutes and universities are important sources of agricultural scientific and technological innovation. For scientific research institutes and universities at different levels and types, the implementation opinions make clear division of responsibilities: central-level scientific research institutes should focus on serving major national needs and focus on major scientific and technological issues in overall, strategic and forward-looking agriculture. Local scientific research institutes should focus on supporting regional development and focus on regional and characteristic industries and scientific and technological issues. Colleges and universities should strengthen their mission of serving farmers, take moral education as the foundation, strengthen agriculture and promote agriculture as their mission, vigorously cultivate new talents who know and love agriculture, and accelerate the improvement of agricultural science and technology innovation capabilities.

Qiu Tongwei, associate professor at Nanjing Agricultural University, said that these deployments set key points for different research institutes and universities, which will help each perform its own duties and show its strengths, avoid repeated labor, promote the formation of a reasonable division of labor and healthy competition among research institutes, and improve the overall efficiency of agricultural scientific and technological innovation.

Science and technology leaders are the main force in breaking through key core technologies, building a modern industrial system, and developing new quality productivity. Su Fu, president of Syngenta Group, a subsidiary of China Sinochem, noticed that the implementation opinions propose to accelerate the cultivation and expansion of leading agricultural science and technology enterprises, enhance the independent innovation capabilities of enterprises, strengthen the in-depth integration of industry, education and research led by enterprises, and ensure the leading position of enterprises in science and technology innovation.

"From the enterprise perspective, the relevant deployments proposed in the implementation opinions are highly targeted and practical, providing a powerful engine for enterprises to accelerate innovation, which will help guide more high-quality innovation resources to gather in enterprises and promote the accelerated development of agricultural technology enterprises." Su Fu said.

Create a more active and open and effective talent policy, increase the training of agricultural strategic scientists, leading scientific and technological talents, and young scientific and technological talents in the stages; strengthen the training of abilities and quality of responsible persons and scientific and technological management personnel in scientific research institutes; encourage scientific research institutes to conduct classified evaluations of personnel engaged in scientific and technological innovation, achievement transformation, scientific and technological management, and scientific research assistance in professional title evaluation, promotion and promotion... Focusing on talents, the first resource of agricultural scientific and technological innovation, the implementation opinions propose relevant measures to strengthen the agricultural scientific and technological talent team, and release a clear direction of paying attention to agricultural scientific and technological talents, increasing talent training efforts, and improving talent assessment indicators.

In addition, the implementation opinions also make arrangements for improving the support capacity of agricultural science and technology conditions, accelerating the transformation of agricultural science and technology achievements, and promoting high-level open cooperation in agricultural science and technology, creating a good environment for improving the overall efficiency of the agricultural science and technology innovation system.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that the research and issuance of this implementation opinion aims to focus on improving the overall efficiency of the agricultural science and technology innovation system, integrate scientific research resources at all levels and types, strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, highlight the further comprehensive deepening of the reform of the agricultural science and technology system, break down the institutional and mechanism barriers that hinder agricultural science and technology innovation, continuously stimulate innovation momentum, improve innovation efficiency, and effectively support the construction of an agricultural power with high-level agricultural science and technology self-reliance and self-improvement.