Macro Thought on Development of China’s Large Research Infrastructures in the Next 50 Years

Abstract

The development roadmap of large research infrastructures in China in the next 50 years, including the determination of strategy and planning of the development, should be made on the basis of the following principles:

• Conform to the macro goal of China to basically realize modernization in the middle of the 21st century and reach the level of medium-developed countries; embody the national policy of sustainable economic and social development; and to be compatible with the overall planning of national scientific and technological development and the planning of social development.

• Reflect that the requirements of all scientific and technological fields on the research support capability are commensurate with their development roadmap.

• Grasp the direction of development in science and technology in the world and ascertain the long-term requirements of the economic and social development of the country; predict the potential possibilities offered by new principles and new technologies; and make forward-looking deployment.

• The overall development scale matches the level of national economic development and the government capability to make investment.