China wants to be the world leader in science

China has set a target to exceed the US and Europe to become a world leader in science, the researchers announced at a conference in the US yesterday.

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After becoming the world's largest supplier of cheap goods, China is investing heavily in science and technology. That is the common judgment of scientists attending the annual meeting of the American High-level Science Association in Washington City on February 18, AFP said.

"China hopes to become one of the leading intellectual property providers in the coming years ," said Denis Simon, a professor at Penn University in the US. Simon is currently a technology adviser of Thi reward in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China.

The goal of China is given in the context of the US and European countries all reduce budgets for scientific research due to economic crisis. Simon insists that China has significantly increased its budget for research facilities.

" Chinese officials insist they will spend about 2.5% of gross domestic product on scientific research and development activities before 2020 ," Simon said.

Meanwhile in the United States, Republicans want to reduce the budget for the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest medical research facility, and many other research agencies to reduce the budget deficit. This move contrasts with the policy of increasing the budget for science proposed by President Barack Obama in the draft budget for 2012.

The Republic also wants to reduce $ 5 billion in education, although Education Minister Arne Duncan warned the US to improve the quality of teaching, especially in math and science, if not for generations. The future loses competitive advantage in the global economy.

A report published last year showed that the US dropped from second to 13th in the list of 34 countries with the highest number of university students in the world.

Caroline Wagner, a Penn University professor in the United States, said that the number of researchers in China will be greater than that of the United States as more and more Chinese youth enter university. The larger the number of researchers, the higher the number of research works and the quality of research.

The number of high-quality research projects in China also increased strongly. This is another sign that China is really serious about its ambition to become a leading science powerhouse. A research result is considered to be of high quality when it is frequently cited in other works. The number of Chinese studies cited is increasing, while the number of studies cited by the US and Europe tends to decrease.

In terms of research quantity, China has published more works than America in the fields of natural science and technology.

Currently, the US is still the world's most research-intensive country.

' Based on the current situation, China will become the most published country in the world in all fields ,' Wagner predicted.