On July 10, 2024, Fang Yu was invited to attend the collective learning meeting (expanded) of the Theoretical Learning Center Group of the Party Committee of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and delivered a lecture on the spirit of the important speech made by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee at a meeting conflating the National Science and Technology Conference, the National Science and Technology Award Conference, the 21st General Assembly of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the 17th General Assembly of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

SCCE Party Committee secretary Gao Lingxiang presided over the meeting and led the study of the important speech. Members of the central group of SCCE Party Committee, high-level talents at the provincial and ministerial level or above, secretary of the Party branch of the faculty, and director of the Teaching and Research Office participated in the study meeting.

Fang Yu shared his personal reflection on attending the conference. He said that with only 11 years to go before the goal of building a powerful country in science and technology by 2035, the development of science and technology has entered a very critical stage, and he deeply felt the burden of scientific research workers and the responsibility of contributing to the development of the country. He pointed out that scientific research at this stage is facing major changes and can no longer look at new problems with the unchanged vision. On the one hand, the state has strengthened its support for scientific research and accelerated the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. On the other hand, the emergence of artificial intelligence has made great changes in scientific research methods and research methods. Combined with the actual development of the school’s disciplines, he stressed that researchers should first be good at using innovative thinking, accepting new changes, using new things, and producing new results; Second, to do purposeful research, valuable research, basic research should be “vertical to the end”, dig deep and dig through, applied research should be “horizontal to the edge”, take the initiative to meet the needs of enterprises; Third, to clench the fingers into a fist, gather all the forces that can be gathered, carry out top-level planning with orientation, and solve practical problems as the goal, and make research deeper and stronger.