China News Service, Beijing, September 29 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The Chinese Academy of Sciences held a press conference in Beijing on September 29 to officially launch the implementation of the scientific frontier limit breakthrough plan, and issued an initiative to the global scientific community to face the "extreme questions", jointly build an "open bridge", and embrace the "trend of change", and called for the promotion of in-depth collaboration among the global scientific research community.
Zhou Qi, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said in his speech that launching the scientific frontier breakthrough plan is a practical measure for the Chinese Academy of Sciences to strengthen basic research with greater intensity. The plan focuses on major directions and scientific issues that will lead to the transformation of scientific research paradigms and open up new frontiers and new directions. It will use the open interoperability of major scientific and technological infrastructure and artificial intelligence-empowered scientific research as the starting point to organize superior forces to carry out systematic and institutionalized scientific and technological research, and support scientists to achieve original and leading breakthroughs in major scientific frontier issues and key core technologies.
Wei Zhixiang, director of the Bureau of Basic Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that the Science Frontier Extreme Breakthrough Program encourages outstanding scientists inside and outside the academy and even around the world to make full use of large scientific equipment and artificial intelligence platforms and networks to better demonstrate multi-disciplinary advantages, gather talents, platforms and resources, and significantly improve scientific research efficiency; pilot implementation of evaluation methods suitable for extreme breakthrough scientific research work, reduce preset goals and process interference, not only paper output and short-term results, and implement "tolerance for failure".
The scientific frontier extreme breakthrough plan revolves around and focuses on the direction of "extreme macro, extremely micro, extreme conditions and extremely comprehensive intersection" ("four poles"). Through the deep integration of large scientific device linkage and AI empowerment, scientific research projects with different characteristics and nature, such as systematic research or free exploration, implement a reasonable classification, combination of long and short, and dynamic and stable support methods.
At the press conference that day, the Scientific Frontier Limit Breakthrough Plan announced the first batch of 10 projects, including focusing on cutting-edge issues in the "quadruple" direction such as the synthesis of new elements, the nature of dark matter and dark energy, microscopic measurements of chemical bonds, and artificially synthesized cells. The directions for the next batch of areas to be focused on were also announced at the same time. It is clear that the focus will be on physical science, life science, earth system science, space science and other fields, and strive to produce a number of major original results with world influence in key areas related to the national economy and people's livelihood and the country's long-term development.
According to the initiative of the Science Frontier Limit Breakthrough Plan, we will face the "extreme questions" head-on, jointly overcome a number of major scientific problems that break through human cognition, and solve unsolved mysteries in the "no man's land".
In terms of jointly building an "open bridge", the Chinese Academy of Sciences will open and share large-scale scientific equipment and scientific data resources to the world in an orderly manner, so that extreme experimental conditions can benefit scientific researchers around the world, and promote in-depth collaboration among the global scientific research community.
In terms of embracing the "trend of change", we should actively embrace the new paradigm of scientific research driven by artificial intelligence, accelerate the transformation from "experience trial and error" to "intelligent prediction", and jointly open up new frontiers for scientific exploration.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences stated that it is willing to work with scientists from all over the world to jointly build a long-term, highly fault-tolerant collaborative research mechanism, encourage in-depth cross-disciplinary and cross-departmental cooperation, and support original innovation to continuously achieve new breakthroughs.
