As the only "national outstanding contribution scientist" in China, Qian Xuesen's contributions to Chinese civilization, the Chinese nation and the people of China include "Qian Xuesen's sword" to ensure the survival of civilization and keep strong enemies out of the country, "Qian Xuesen's question" to the sustainable and long-term development of the nation, and "Qian Xuesen's land" to explore the future and destiny of people's new life.
In the mid-1950s, Qian Xuesen returned to China as the director of the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, and began to develop cutting-edge weapons for the new China on his own. He can be called the "sword maker" of modern civilization in China. In the mid-1980s, Qian Xuesen, based on the long-term development of China, looked forward to the period of 265,438+30-50s, and thought about the development of scientific revolution, technological revolution, industrial revolution and social revolution, as well as the significance of natural science, social science and system science necessary for building a modern country in Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
In Qian Xuesen's view, Japan's five generations of computers, Reagan's Star Wars, and Mitterrand's Eureka Plan are all disputes over building a country through technology. 2 1 century, if any country can't be in the leading position in science and technology, it will be difficult to gain a foothold. There are at least three characteristics in the future world: the surge of information; The rapid development and popularization of electronic computer technology has connected into a world network;
Electronic computer technology is developing to a higher level of intelligence. Therefore, he put the focus of the fifth industrial revolution on intelligence, and regarded brain science, thinking science, intelligent machines, artificial intelligence and robots closely related to intelligence as the five frontier technologies in 2 1 century.
In the spring and summer of 2005, Qian Xuesen, who stayed in the United States for 20 years and returned to China for 50 years, was worried about the lack of scientific and technological innovation talents in China: "What others have said is said, and what they have not said is afraid to say. This will not cultivate top handsome talents ... We can't follow the trend, and the most important thing in scientific spirit is innovation. "
At present, China has not been fully developed. One of the important reasons is that no university can run a school according to the mode of cultivating talents for scientific and technological inventions. Without something unique and innovative, there will always be no outstanding talents. This is a big problem.