一向以科技人才荟萃著称的中国科学院,近几年来出现了高级专业人员老化和后继力量严重不足的现象。这一问题早就引起中科院党委和院领导的重视,深感在青年人才培养方面所做的工作与90年代面临的形势、任务的需要相比,确实差距很大。一些领导干部对青年人才问题的严重性、迫切性认识不足,缺乏严密规划,缺乏精心组织和扎实的工作。有的把科研、创收当硬任务,而把培养青年人才当软 The Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has always been famous for the gathering of scientific and technological personnel, has witnessed a serious shortage of senior professionals and succeeding forces in recent years. This issue has long aroused the attention of party committees and academicians in the Chinese Academy of Sciences and it is deeply felt that the work done in cultivating young talents is indeed far behind the needs of the situations and tasks faced in the 1990s. Some leading cadres do not have the seriousness and urgency to understand the problem of young talent, lack of strict planning, and lack of well-organized and solid work. Some take scientific research and generate revenue as hard tasks, while training young people to be soft