“It’s a great honor for me to attend the congress and it helps me obtain a better understanding of my responsibility as a scientist,” said Yin, a member of the Jiangxi Association of Science and Technology and deputy director of the Jiangxi Microbe Institution. “It shows our Party and government hold great respects for knowledge and talents.”

In the keynote speech made at the congress, General Secretary Jiang Zemin reiterated the importance of science and technology in building socialism, saying that China must give play to the important role of science and technology as the primary productive force.

“China’s rejuvenation should rely on scientific and technological innovation,” said Yin. “Above all, we scientists should help transform scientific and research achievements into practical productive force so as to raise efficiency of production and boost economic growth. It is not right to keep the result of one’s research high up in an ivory tower, as happened before.” This requires an integration of research, production and marketing, Yin explained. In the past, due to various reasons, it often happened that scientific patents became outdated before they were actually used. Now people, scientists and enterprises in particular, are increasingly enhancing their awareness in this regard.

“Enterprises should be the vanguards in the whole innovation system since they are ‘production cells’ and scientific research is the ‘yeast,’” said Yin.

Yin’s company, the Jiangxi Musashino Bio-Chem Co., Ltd., is a JV established by him in cooperation with a Japanese company in 2000. It produces the so far most excellent lactic acid from rice with the technology invented by Yin. The acid can be applied to medicine, food processing, cosmetics and plastic production. As it can be decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, it causes no pollution to the environment. The company has an annual production capacity of 5,000 tons and its products are well received at home and abroad.

Yin’s lactic acid industry belongs to the new industry as it is of high science- and technology-concentration, good economic returns, low resource consumption, and little environmental pollution. An industry like this will play an important role in upgrading and invigorating China’s industrial development.

“After the congress, I’ll apply the spirit of Jiang’s report in my daily work, so as to accelerate the innovation in Jiangxi’s scientific system and transform scientific results into production,” said Yin Peimin. “As long as the relevant policies are implemented in practice, I believe, it will not be far that China becomes a scientific power.”

(china.org.cn by staff reporter Guo Xiaohong November 14, 2002)