Focus academic attention on research not material rewards

AT THE END OF THE YEAR, large numbers of annual conferences, forums and lectures sponsored by various parties are staged, and almost all of them invite star scholars or expert speakers to participate. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

China's academic research on the economy and social development lags behind the country's economic and social development. The most influential research findings on modern China are not from home, but abroad.

An important cause of the problem is that a number of leading scholars and researchers in these fields are more prone to attend the well-paid events than to conduct real academic research.