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rationality and shift from product-oriented to service-oriented innovations, so as to
meet market needs to the largest extent.
3. Supporting decision-making and providing social services for green, lowcarbon and circular development
Higher learning institutions also do a lot of work to support government decisionmaking and serve the public and enterprises. In this process, university educators
should fulfill their social responsibilities by providing science-based suggestions for
decision-making in social management, promoting ecological tech innovations to
meet economic and social needs, and foster the public environmental awareness in
a scientific and objective spirit.
University educators should proactively take up the social responsibility for
making substantial decisions on green, low-carbon and circular development. Due to
domestic and international situations at the moment, the decision-making process has
to be backed by more solid scientific information, which means university educators
should carry a more significant social responsibility on their shoulders. At home,
following the requirement of building an ecological civilization, the basic state
policy of “resource conservation and environmental protection” has to be strictly
observed in formulating various economic and social policies, promoting all the
work and developing all kinds of plans. Meanwhile, the guideline of “prioritizing
resource conservation and environmental protection and letting nature restore itself”
should be upheld as the fundamental direction of our work in resource exploitation
and utilization as well as environmental and ecosystem protection. Internationally,
circular economy, green development and environmental protection are all important
strategies many countries have adopted in their economic and social development,
and also key measures for them to occupy the economic high ground in the age
after the financial and debt crisis. Compared with other countries, China’s development involves more factors and more complicated relations, with protruding conflicts
between economic growth and environment, resources and energies and greater difficulties in making scientific decisions. During social operation and management,
many scientific researchers don’t want to get involved in “politics” or participate
in “decision-making,” but the government often needs scientific and technological
basis when it has to make decisions on complicated issues. Scientific researchers
in modern times should not only be specialized in their own fields, but as social
elites should also participate in the government’s and industry’s decision-making
and management process.
Universities should also proactively conduct publicity and education and guide
public opinions. Many pollutants that are discharged into the environment as byproducts of modern technologies lead to diseases and ecological damages, and measures
have to be taken to avoid environmental hazards and risks. In possession of specialized knowledge, scientific researchers can predict the possible application prospects
of such knowledge more accurately and comprehensively, and therefore have the
responsibility to estimate the positive and negative effects of related technologies.
The current industrial production in China has caused more and more serious resource
waste and environmental pollution, and grave and frequent eco-security hazards
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rationality and shift from product-oriented to service-oriented innovations, so as to
meet market needs to the largest extent.
3. Supporting decision-making and providing social services for green, lowcarbon and circular development
Higher learning institutions also do a lot of work to support government decisionmaking and serve the public and enterprises. In this process, university educators
should fulfill their social responsibilities by providing science-based suggestions for
decision-making in social management, promoting ecological tech innovations to
meet economic and social needs, and foster the public environmental awareness in
a scientific and objective spirit.
University educators should proactively take up the social responsibility for
making substantial decisions on green, low-carbon and circular development. Due to
domestic and international situations at the moment, the decision-making process has
to be backed by more solid scientific information, which means university educators
should carry a more significant social responsibility on their shoulders. At home,
following the requirement of building an ecological civilization, the basic state
policy of “resource conservation and environmental protection” has to be strictly
observed in formulating various economic and social policies, promoting all the
work and developing all kinds of plans. Meanwhile, the guideline of “prioritizing
resource conservation and environmental protection and letting nature restore itself”
should be upheld as the fundamental direction of our work in resource exploitation
and utilization as well as environmental and ecosystem protection. Internationally,
circular economy, green development and environmental protection are all important
strategies many countries have adopted in their economic and social development,
and also key measures for them to occupy the economic high ground in the age
after the financial and debt crisis. Compared with other countries, China’s development involves more factors and more complicated relations, with protruding conflicts
between economic growth and environment, resources and energies and greater difficulties in making scientific decisions. During social operation and management,
many scientific researchers don’t want to get involved in “politics” or participate
in “decision-making,” but the government often needs scientific and technological
basis when it has to make decisions on complicated issues. Scientific researchers
in modern times should not only be specialized in their own fields, but as social
elites should also participate in the government’s and industry’s decision-making
and management process.
Universities should also proactively conduct publicity and education and guide
public opinions. Many pollutants that are discharged into the environment as byproducts of modern technologies lead to diseases and ecological damages, and measures
have to be taken to avoid environmental hazards and risks. In possession of specialized knowledge, scientific researchers can predict the possible application prospects
of such knowledge more accurately and comprehensively, and therefore have the
responsibility to estimate the positive and negative effects of related technologies.
The current industrial production in China has caused more and more serious resource
waste and environmental pollution, and grave and frequent eco-security hazards