On November 4th, 2020, the draft that math should be listed as a major national project during the 14th Five-Year Plan(2021—25)period was adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, reported China Daily.
Katherine Johnson (1918—2020), a former NASA mathematician who calculated and analyzed flight paths for many missions, once said: “Some things will drop out of the public eye and go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.” This may be one of the reasons why our country has listed math and its applications as a major national project into the next Five-Year Plan.
“The policy and financial support for the field of mathematics will be greatly improved between 2021 and 2025 compared with the past five years—it’s unprecedented,” said Yuan Yaxiang, a mathematician and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also stressed that mathematical research matters because it can help overcome some current technology bottlenecks.
According to Science and Technology Minister Wang Zhigang, basic scientific research, including mathematics, will have a larger focus during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, with funding expected to reach over 8 percent of all research and development (R&D) expenses.
The math project is expected to receive 1.5 billion yuan in funding, according to Yuan. The funding will be used to build new institutions for scientific research and support the current ones with new experimental equipment. More training for young mathematicians has also been urged.
Thịs year, Tsinghua University carried out a leading talent training program in math. It recruits hundreds of outstanding middle and senior high school students from across the country to cultivate leading talents in mathematics and related fields. The “strengthening basic disciplines plan” was launched in 2020 at 36 top universities.
According to the German newspaper Die Welt, China leads the way as far as those with an aptitude for math. Of all those born in China between 2005 and 2009, 24 million have exhibited a talent for math. The number is 1.8 million and 940,000 in Japan and South Korea, respectively. That's why many international companies like Apple have set their research centers in China.
【小题1】Why has our country listed math as a major national project in the 14th Five-Year Plan?| A．Because math has dropped out of the public eye. |
| B．Because the government intends to arouse the public’s interest in math. |
| C．Because math is the basic science that will always be there. |
| D．Because some mathematicians attach importance to it. |
| A．A middle school student talented in politics. |
| B．A high school student good at physics. |
| C．A primary school student gifted in mathematics. |
| D．A postgraduate with a natural gift in chemistry. |
| A．We will overcome current technology bottlenecks. |
| B．China will give unprecedented financial support to math researches. |
| C．1.5 billion yuan will be used to train more young mathematicians. |
| D．Many international companies will set up research centers in china. |
| A．Math has played an important role in the development of a country. |
| B．China carried out some policies to overcome difficulties in math. |
| C．Math has been listed as a major national project in the 14th Five-Year Plan period. |
| D．Leading talents will be admitted for further training. |
