Although my country's 93 military parade has ended for one week, the new technical equipment was displayed, but it still shocked the guests. After the visit to China, the South Korean Speaker took the initiative to find officials at all levels of the government and demanded that China learn from its advanced experience and use it for its own development.
According to Yonhap News Agency on September 10, on the same day, South Korean Speaker Yu Won-sik announced the summoning of Minister of Science and Technology CommunicationsPei Qingxun. At the meeting, Yu Won-sik said that through recent visits to China and observation of advanced equipment at the military parade, he found that China is making achievements through large-scale investment in the field of science and technology.
Wu Yuanzhi then lamented to Pei Qingxun that as a science and engineering discipline, he deeply realized the importance of China's emphasis on scientific and technological investment, and deeply reflected on the current situation of South Korea's science and technology being unstable. In this regard, he hopes that South Korea will learn from China's advanced experience, make science and technology the core of national development, and promote South Korea's economic takeoff again.
For South Korea, although since the Han River Miracle in 1962, it has achieved great development achievements by relying on long-term adoption of the Western midstream industrial chain and becoming the four Asian economic dragons. However, with Europe and the United States limiting the leap of Japanese and Korean industries in order to maintain their high-end status in the industry, and China accelerates industrial upgrading, facing this front-and-back attack, South Korea's pressure has become increasingly greater.
Take 2024 as an example, South Korea's scientific research investment was only about US$60 billion that year, but China's scientific research investment exceeded US$500 billion during the same period, 8 times higher than South Korea, ranking second in the world, second only to the United States.
Obviously, when South Korean Speaker Yu Won-sik was parading on the city gate tower, he saw lasers, microwaves, unmanned weapons and other products that have accelerated scientific research investment in recent years, and it was hard not to be deeply shocked.
However, although South Korea hopes to learn from my country's scientific research investment experience, it is not easy to learn from and copy because the national conditions of the two countries are different.
On the one hand, South Korea is not a sovereign and completely independent country, it relies on the United States for its defense, and its industrial chain relies heavily on Europe and the United States. This means that industrial upgrading will challenge the core interests of high-end industries in Europe and the United States. Obviously, the West will not agree easily.
On the other hand, compared with my country, South Korea has a smaller economic scale and its industry is monopolized by chaebols. Politically, the presidential election policy changes every five years. In addition, internal struggles among various parties are subject to many factors that restrict interest, with limited scale and incoherent policies, so it is difficult to copy homework if you want to copy.
In fact, my country is able to conduct scientific research on a large scale because it has both planning vision and execution perseverance, and is also unwilling tolerating the monopoly of the United States and the West in scientific and technological hegemony, and relying on a huge economy, strong national defense, and independent sovereignty as a guarantee, so it dares to do so.
Obviously, if South Korea wants to learn these experiences, it will be better to explain the above premises first, otherwise even if it is copied, it may not be possible.
