Diligence required for greater progress in 2018
As we ushered in 2018, many will no doubt have been reflecting on the year just passed. Such reviews help orientate us for the year ahead, but perhaps more important is identifying our goals for the coming year and how to attain them.
By reviewing the past, one can learn lessons and take stock of the year's experiences, but by making a detailed schedule of what is to be done and how, one has hopes and expectations that can drive one forward. The same is true for a nation.
As President Xi Jinping said in his speech on New Year's Eve, we have enough reason to be proud of what this country has achieved in its scientific innovations in the year 2017, such as the launch of the C919 airliner, the X-ray satellite Insight, a quantum computer, the rice production in saline soil on a trial basis, the first China-made aircraft carrier and so on.
