在上一世纪末,有识之士曾经指出,二十一世纪是知识经济的世纪。所谓“知识经济时代”,就是邓小平所说的“科学技术是第一生产力”的时代。在新世纪刚刚揭开序幕的时候,重温邓小平同志关于发展科学技术的一系列论述,以全新的角度去研究邓小平同志关于“科学技术是第一生产力” At the end of the last century, people of insight once pointed out that the 21st century is a century of knowledge-based economy. The so-called “era of knowledge economy” is what Deng Xiaoping called “science and technology are primary productive forces” era. At the just beginning of the new century, we reviewed Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s series of expositions on the development of science and technology and studied Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s new view that “science and technology are the primary productive forces”