On May 6, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council made the Decision on Accelerating the Progress of Science and Technology to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education. Jiang Zemin pointed out at the National Conference on Science and Technology on June 26 that innovation was the soul of a nation’s progress and an inexhaustible driving force for a country’s prosperity. We must study and introduce foreign advanced technologies while making unremitting efforts to improve the country's independent research and development capacity.