What are the important functions and significance of scientific and technological modernization to China's modernization?

1) Science is people's knowledge system about nature, society and thinking, while technology is the application of natural science knowledge in the production process. Although science and technology are not independent elements of productivity, when it penetrates into the three basic elements of productivity, it will cause great changes in production tools, labor objects and workers and transform them into direct productivity, thus promoting the rapid development of social production.

(2) In modern society, science and technology are not only general productive forces, but also primary productive forces. Because:

Science and technology have become the most important factor in the development of productive forces. In ancient times, the development of production and economic growth mainly depended on people's physical labor; In modern times, the main factors of improving labor productivity and economic growth are still the investment of funds, labor and resources; At present, scientific and technological factors account for more than half of the economic growth in developed countries, and even as high as 60% in some regions and departments? Therefore, scientific and technological factors have become one of the basic characteristics that distinguish them from ancient and modern productive forces.

(2) Science and technology have penetrated into all elements of productivity. Whether it is the improvement of workers' skills, the reform and innovation of labor tools, the development of labor objects, the rational allocation of various factors of productivity, and the optimal organization and management of production activities, it is achieved through the role of science and technology. Science and technology have been combined with production and become the main lever to promote the development of productive forces.

③ Science and technology play a leading and leading role in the development of modern social production. The position and role of science and technology in economic and social development are becoming more and more important. In a sense, it has become a "decisive factor" that restricts economic and social development.

(3) Guiding significance for socialist construction.

(1) Deng Xiaoping put forward that science and technology are the primary productive forces, which is a great contribution of the theory of historical materialism to keep pace with the times;

Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and the key to China's modernization is the modernization of science and technology, which requires us to raise the development of science and technology to a strategic position and realize the importance of "rejuvenating the country through science and education".

The great promotion of modern science and technology to the development of productive forces requires that China's economic construction must rely on science and technology, give full play to the role of scientific and technological personnel, apply scientific and technological achievements to production and transform them into real productive forces. Science and technology are the primary productive forces, which requires China to develop a high-tech knowledge economy in order to realize the grand goal of socialist modernization in China at an early date.