——Speech at the 17th Conference of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 12th Conference of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

■Interpretation

People are the most active factor in productivity and the most critical factor in scientific and technological innovation. Comrade Xi Jinping also quoted "Ji Ji Duoshi, King Wen Yining" in the Book of Songs, Daya and King Wen" to express his great importance to scientific and technological talents. At present, China has the world's largest scientific and technological team, from the romantic space kiss between the "Heavenly Palace" and the "Divine Eight" to the "Jade Rabbit" strolling on the surface of the moon, China's scientific and technological talents have burst out with tremendous innovation vitality. However, the lack of world-class scientific and technological masters, leading talents, and top talents still restrict China's scientific and technological innovation and hinder China's progress towards becoming a human resources power.

It is precisely for this reason that Comrade Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that "the development of human resources should be given the highest priority in scientific and technological innovation". Therefore, it is necessary to improve the talent training mechanism to avoid quick success and quick profit, and pull out seedlings to help growth; This requires the whole society to actively create a good atmosphere that encourages innovation, has the courage to innovate, and embraces innovation, which not only attaches importance to success, but also tolerates trial and error; This requires the cultivation of a large number of innovative young talents to pave the way for top-notch innovative talents to stand out. Knowledge is power, talent is the future, and once the wisdom resources contained in the brains of more than 1.3 billion people are stimulated, it will create a better China.

■Original text

The thirteen states of the first assassination history department. Famous ministers wanted to exhaust their civil and military affairs, and the edict said: "If you have extraordinary merits, you must treat extraordinary people." Therefore, the horse or gallop to thousands of miles, and the scholar may have the burden of the vulgar and make meritorious contributions. The horses that are driven by the husband, and the people who are sloppy are also in the palace. It makes the state and county inspectors and the people have different talents, and can be the one who will make the country extinct. ”

——(Eastern Han Dynasty) Ban Gu, "Hanshu Wudi Ji Sixth"

■Definition

"If you have extraordinary merit, you must treat extraordinary people", from the edict of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the fifth year of Yuan Feng (106 BC) ordering the prefectures and counties to recommend talents. Meaning: To build an extraordinary career, you must rely on unusual talents.

During the Yuanguang period (134-129 BC), Sima Xiangru wrote to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for the affairs of the Southwest Yi, and there was a sentence that attracted the attention of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: "There must be extraordinary people in the world, and then there are extraordinary things; There are extraordinary things, and then there are extraordinary things. The extraordinary is also different from ordinary people. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty appreciated this sentence so much that more than 20 years later, he summarized it in an edict as "If you have extraordinary merits, you must treat extraordinary people." Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty claimed to be an emperor who was "different from ordinary people", and most of his life was used as "extraordinary people", "extraordinary things", and "extraordinary achievements". Therefore, the "Book of Han" praises and says: "The Han Dynasty wins people, and it is prosperous." And behind this series of "extraordinary", there is a larger background of the times, that is, the "extraordinary world" of the prosperous era of the Han Dynasty.