Q&A: China’s Advance in Basic Scientific Research

Editor’s note: The following interview has been adapted from the original Chinese text published by The Intellectual, a public WeChat account. It has been edited for brevity and clarity.

Facing competition with the United States in technology, what should Chinese science do? How should we view China’s stage of scientific development and the gap between China’s scientific research and other international giants? Yang Wei, the former director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and a scholar at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, spoke with The Intellectual about these topics.