6月3日,中国工程院成立暨首届院士大会和中科院第七次院士大会在中南海怀仁堂隆重举行。中共中央总书记、国家主席江泽民强调,从现在起到下世纪中叶,是中华民族振兴的伟大历史时期。在我们这样一个人口多、底子薄、人均资源占有相对比较低的国家,要搞现代化建设,要使经济发展、社会进步、人民富裕、国家富强,必须坚持以邓小平同志建设有中国特色社会主义理论和党的基本路线为指导,必须依靠科技进步。我们的改革,是要进一步解放和发展我国的生产力。科学技术作为第一生产力,更要有一个新的解放和大的发 On June 3, the founding of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the first academician congress and the seventh academician conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were held ceremoniously in Huairentang, Zhongnanhai. General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Jiang Zemin emphasized that it is a great historic period for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation from now until the middle of the next century. In a country like ours with a large population and a weak foundation and a relatively low per-capita share of resources, we must uphold modernization, make economic development, social progress, the people prosperous and the country prosperous and strong. We must uphold Comrade Deng Xiaoping's theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics And the party's basic line as a guide, we must rely on scientific and technological progress. Our reform is to further liberate and develop our productive forces. Science and technology as the primary productive forces, but also to have a new liberation and big hair