“Our people are undertaking the historic mission of modernizing our agriculture, industry, national defence and science and technology within the present century, in order to transform China into a modern and powerful socialist state.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the National Conference on Science (March 1978) (exerpts)

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