Research on Countermeasures to Enhance Shanghai's Basic Research Capability

The basic research is an important foundation for Shanghai to enhance the function of innovation curation and build a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence. Only by strengthening basic research can we maintain the ability to be a source of innovation in the long run. Based on the analysis of China's basic research laws and policies, this paper summarizes Shanghai's latest initiatives to promote basic research and proposes a systematic mechanism design to strengthen basic research and enhance the innovation-creating capacity in Shanghai, including: forming a dual-track support mechanism to guarantee the benign operation of strategic basic research, making up for the relevant policy hollows, encouraging enterprises and social organizations to invest in basic research, systematically optimizing the mechanism of basic research organization, and building a system that encourages originality and focuses on long-term effects. Research organization mechanism, constructing a classified evaluation and incentive mechanism for basic research that encourages originality and focuses on long-term effects, and further creating a soft and hard environment for basic research.