If you want to do something good, you must first use your tools.

Scientific instruments and equipment are the "tools" of scientific research and the basic conditions for scientific research and scientific innovation.

According to statistics, by 2017, among the Nobel Prize-winning projects in natural sciences, 11% were directly awarded for the invention of scientific instruments. And 72% of the physics prizes, 81% of the chemistry prizes, and 95% of the physiology or medicine prizes were completed with the help of cutting-edge scientific instruments.

Wu Aihua, secretary general of the Analytical Instrument Branch of the Chinese Instrumentation Society, told the First Financial Reporter that from an international perspective, the work of many Nobel Prize winners is related to the development of instruments.

Wu Aihua said that scientific instruments are not civilian consumer goods, so many times people ignore their importance and think that their economic benefits are not as good as those of many other industries. But instruments are scientific tools for understanding the unknown world, as well as tools for controlling the production process. "It is the source of understanding the world's raw information data."

On May 28 this year, the 20th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the 15th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology were held simultaneously in the Great Hall of the People. At the meeting, key core technologies in oil and gas, basic raw materials, high-end chips, industrial software, crop seeds, instruments and equipment for scientific experiments, and chemical agents were named as the direction of full attack.