What is the role of science and technology in social development?

First, science and technology are important factors and forces to promote the development of modern productive forces. Marx clearly pointed out that the development of machine production needs the conscious application of natural science, "productivity also includes science" and "labor productivity develops with the continuous progress of science and technology." This assertion of Marx has been confirmed by the continuous development of social practice. The basic elements of productivity are means of production, objects of labor and laborers. The means of production are combined with certain science and technology. Workers also have certain scientific and technological knowledge. The rapid development of modern science and technology has rapidly transformed into real productive forces, which has changed the workers, tools, objects and management level in productive forces. Workers' mastery of science and technology has greatly improved people's ability to understand, transform and protect nature and improved their productive labor ability. In the productivity system, science and technology have become the key and leading factor to promote the development of productivity. Secondly, science and technology are the primary factors for the development of modern productive forces and economic growth. In the past, the development of productive forces and economic growth mainly depended on the input of labor, capital and natural resources. With the advent of the era of knowledge economy in modern society, science, technology and intellectual resources have increasingly become the decisive factors for the development of productive forces and economic growth. Productivity development and economic growth mainly rely on the power of science and technology, especially from the practice of economic development in developed countries. \x0d Third, the advanced nature of modern science and technology plays a leading role in the development of productive forces. The second technological revolution at the end of 2009 was a turning point in the relationship between science, technology and production. Before this, the relationship between production, science and technology has changed. The development of production promotes the progress of technology, which in turn promotes the development of science. For example, the technological revolution of the steam engine mainly developed from the craftsman tradition, explored technological inventions on the basis of accumulated production experience, and then summed up the thermodynamic theory. Since the second technological revolution marked by the electric power technology revolution, the situation that production promotes scientific and technological development has changed, and now science promotes technological progress. Then promote the development of production. Science and technology are more and more ahead of social production, opening up new fields of production development and guiding the development direction of productive forces. For example, the establishment of electromagnetic theory mainly explores electromagnetic theory through scientific experiments, promotes the revolution of electric power technology, and finally leads to the wide application of electric power in production. Deng Xiaoping profoundly pointed out when summing up the development trend of science and technology: "Modern science has opened the way for the progress of production technology and determined its development direction. Many new production tools and new technologies were first created in scientific laboratories. " "A large number of historical facts have proved that once theoretical research has achieved great reality, it will bring great progress to production and technology sooner or later." \x0d Fully understanding the assertion that science and technology are the primary productive forces under the new situation actually indicates the arrival of the era of knowledge economy. Jiang Zemin's important exposition that "science and technology are the primary productive forces, but also the concentrated expression and main symbol of advanced productive forces" profoundly reveals the position and role of science and technology in economic and social development, and raising science and technology to the height of "advanced productive forces" is the key for our party to consciously represent the development requirements of advanced social productive forces. \x0d Since the Second World Congress, science and technology have developed rapidly and on a huge scale. \ X0d 1) Science and technology promote production development and social change. \ X0d Science and technology are productive forces, the largest and most significant social function of science and technology since the modern industrial revolution, and also the main social function of science and technology. Today, the development level of science and technology has become the main factor of a country's comprehensive national strength and an important symbol to measure whether a country is developed or not. X0d(2) Science and technology promote economic growth \x0d The rapid development of modern science and technology has fundamentally changed all factors of production, including tools, technical methods, control means, skills and intelligence level of workers, and technological innovation has become the most critical factor among the three factors of economic growth. Facts show that two-thirds of the economic growth rate of some developed countries in recent decades comes from technological progress. Science and technology fundamentally determine the economic strength of a country. Developing countries must rely on scientific progress if they want to become economically developed countries. \x0d(3) Science and technology promote the construction of spiritual civilization \x0d Since the birth of modern science, the new discoveries and inventions of science and technology have had a far-reaching impact on human life. Historically, science has played an important role in emancipating people's minds in opposing the rule of religious theology. Today, it is still necessary to popularize scientific and technological knowledge, scientific ideas and scientific methods among all citizens, carry out education on dialectical materialism and historical materialism, improve the scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation, overcome superstition, ignorance and poverty with science and technology, promote the spiritual civilization of the whole society, and make the cause prosperous and the nation strong. \x0d(4) The relationship between science and technology coordinator and nature \x0d is a civilized history of human understanding, utilizing and transforming nature. Coordinating the relationship between man and nature is an important task of science and technology. In the long run, it is one of the important functions of modern science and technology to strive to make the relationship between man and nature in the best state.