World Celebrities Talk About Expo (Twenty-Nine)

On the road of human pursuit of modernization, the earth's natural resources supply capacity and ecological environment carrying capacity are facing severe challenges, and the traditional development mode is difficult to sustain. Human beings must develop new sources of resources and create new development models and ways of development. Shanghai World Expo is highly consistent with the current trend of scientific and technological innovation. Various technologies and products related to the development and utilization of new energy will become the highlight of the exhibition. World Expo is expected to catalyze and push ahead with a new round of technological breakthroughs in the world.

The upcoming 2010 Shanghai World Expo It will be another great event in China after the Beijing Olympic Games. World Expo, with the theme of "Better City, better life", will become a grand gathering to display and disseminate the achievements of advanced civilizations of all countries in the world. From the history of World Expo, every World Expo has left a record of scientific innovation and dissemination of science and technology to promote social progress. Such new technologies and products as steam engines, sewing machines, rubber, submarine cables, telephones and televisions are first appearing in World Expo, and are recognized and moved towards the world, thus profoundly changing the production and life of mankind. It can be said that every time World Expo is reviewing the latest achievements of contemporary human technology, it also provides some forward-looking perspectives for the development of science and technology in the coming decades.

One of the major challenges facing the contemporary world is that the contradiction between the strong desire of more people to pursue modern life and the supply capacity of natural resources and the carrying capacity of ecological environment are increasingly prominent and sharp. This basic contradiction will largely determine the direction, formula and process of human modernization.

In the next 50 years, 2 billion -30 billion people, including China and India, will advance bravely on the road to modernization. Most developing countries will also strive to upgrade the level of industrialization. Although more than 200 years of industrialization have modernized less than 1 billion of the world's population, natural resources and fossil energy have been threatened by exhaustion, which has caused great damage to the natural environment. According to the traditional way of economic growth that grabs non renewable resources in a destructive way, it follows that the development mode of a few countries to gather most of the world's resources is difficult to sustain. It is urgent for mankind to develop new sources of resources, create new modes of development and ways of development, and create new modes of production and life. This demand and contradiction strongly call for revolutionary breakthroughs in science and technology, and strongly call for technology to benefit most people. The process of human civilization needs a new technological revolution and industrial revolution.

Overall judgement of today's world science and technology On the eve of revolutionary change, the possibility of a new technological revolution in the first half of the twenty-first Century is greater. This global financial crisis has led to a major adjustment in the world economic structure and will accelerate this process.

Where is the new economic growth point, including China, in the next 50 years? Experts estimate that new energy and renewable energy technologies are likely to be an important direction. In the long run, fossil fuels such as coal and oil will eventually dry up. The annual clean solar energy on the earth's surface is about 8 thousand to 10 thousand times the total energy consumption of the entire human race. If there is a breakthrough in technology and the cost of solar energy utilization will be reduced, it will be an inexhaustible source of energy. In addition, information technology, life sciences and biotechnology, recycling economy, advanced manufacturing, modern services and health industries are also brewed big breakthroughs.

It is understood that this World Expo, a variety of new energy development and utilization of related technologies and products, including a variety of energy-saving emission reduction technology will become the highlight of the exhibition, which is highly consistent with the current trend of scientific and technological innovation.

It is a Chinese honor to hold World Expo in China. As a host city and host city, Shanghai has made great efforts. It is the bounden duty of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to fully support the current World Expo. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has a long history of friendly cooperation with Shanghai. Since 2001, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shanghai municipal government signed a cooperation agreement three times, forming a comprehensive and multidisciplinary cooperation pattern, and achieved fruitful results in building R & D platforms, condensing industrial clusters, promoting industrial upgrading, and undertaking major scientific and technological tasks. The research institutes and scientists and technicians of the Chinese Academy of sciences have actively participated in scientific and technological projects in World Expo, contributing to the success of World Expo's success. The Shanghai light source, which was built not long ago, is also a gift to World Expo, Shanghai, in 2010. We should not only focus on World Expo's own technological support, but also consider its role in regular environmental monitoring and security protection.

Looking forward to 2010 Shanghai World Expo It will become a catalyst and driving force to drive a new round of technological breakthroughs in the world, and it will also provide new strong driving force for China's technological innovation.

Biography:

Lu Yongxiang, vice chairman of the eleven NPC Standing Committee, member of the Party group, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Secretary of the Party group, executive chairman of the presidium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Academicians, professors and doctoral tutors. The youngest president in the history of the Chinese Academy of Sciences called himself a scientist serving scientists.

Born in April 1942, Cixi, Zhejiang. He graduated from the hydraulic machinery specialty of Zhejiang University and received his doctorate degree in Engineering Science from Rheinisch Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen University in Federal Republic of Germany. He has served in Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Provincial Committee and China Association for science and technology. From 1988 to 1995, he was president of Zhejiang University, and became the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Secretary of the Party group in 1997. He was the 2005 joint chairman of the International Academy of Sciences Committee. The twelfth and thirteen alternate members of the CPC Central Committee, the fourteen, fifteen, sixteen and seventeen members of the CPC Central Committee. Vice chairman, standing committee of the tenth and eleven National People's Congress.

It has made important contributions in mechanical engineering, especially fluid transmission and control, higher engineering education and other fields. It has obtained 20 patents in Europe, the United States and China, and has published more than 250 scientific research and engineering education papers at home and abroad, and 5 other monographs.