邓小平同志提出“科学技术是第一生产力”,这是对现代科学技术与现代生产力关系的高度概括,这一科学论断被社会的发展实践越加证明它的正确性。中国科协第四次代表大会上江泽民总书记又进一步明确指示“要把经济建设真正转移到依靠科技 Comrade Deng Xiaoping proposed that “science and technology are the primary productive forces.” This is a high-level summary of the relationship between modern science and technology and modern productive forces. This scientific assertion is increasingly proved by its social development practice. At the fourth congress of the China Association for Science and Technology, General Secretary Jiang Zemin further clearly stated that "we must really shift economic construction to rely on science and technology.