温家宝2011年在英国皇家学会的演讲

中国经济的振兴和可持续发展，根本靠科技。中国政府已经制定并组织实施了国家中长期科技发展规划。我们持续增加科技投入，近五年，中央财政共投入近1000亿美元，年均增长22.7%。从今年开始实施的“十二五”规划，我们力争把研究开发投入占国内生产总值的比重从现在的1.75%提高到2.2%。同时，我们将加快培育和发展战略性新兴产业。现阶段重点培育和发展节能环保、新一代信息技术、生物、高端设备制造、新能源、新材料、新能源汽车等产业。所有这些，都将促进当前发展并为长期发展提供有力支撑。

Science and technology hold the key to China's economic prosperity and sustainable development. The Chinese government has adopted the National Medium-and Long-Term Program for Science and Technology Development. Government R&D investment has reached nearly 100 billion U.S. dollars in the past five years, growing at an average annual rate of 22.7 percent. Under the 12th Five-Year Plan which starts this year, R&D funding as a percentage of China's GDP will rise to 2.2 percent from the current 1.75 percent. At the same time, we will accelerate the development of strategic emerging industries, with priority given to energy conservation, environmental protection, new generation of information technology, biotechnology, advanced equipment manufacturing, new energy, new materials and new energy powered automobile. These efforts will boost our development at present, and provide strong support for our development in the long run.

从世界范围看，克服国际金融危机，保证经济的稳定、平衡和可持续发展，根本也要靠科技。当今世界正处于新科技革命的前夜，新技术革命和产业革命初现端倪，诸多领域正酝酿着激动人心的重大突破。这场新科技革命，必将进一步深化我们对宇宙自然和人类自身的认识，必将开辟生产力发展的新空间，创造新的社会需求，必将深刻影响人类的生产方式、生活方式和思维方式，从而从根本上改变21世纪人类社会发展进程。科技无国界。让我们共同迎接这一伟大时代的到来！

Globally, science and technology are also crucial for overcoming the financial crisis and ensuring stable, balanced and sustainable economic development. The world is seeing the advent of a new revolution in science and technology and a new industrial revolution. Exciting breakthroughs will be made in many fields. This new revolution in science and technology will deepen our understanding of the universe, nature and ourselves as human beings. It will open up new frontiers, unleash productive forces, create new social demand and exert a profound impact on mode of production, way of life and way of thinking. The revolution in science and technology will thus bring about a fundamental change in the development of human society in the 21st century. Science and technology know no borders. Let us together embrace the arrival of this great era.

未来的中国，将是一个充分实现民主法治、公平正义的国家。在人类历史上，在反对封建专制斗争中形成的民主、法治、自由、平等、人权等观念，是人类精神的一次大解放。只是不同社会、不同国家，实现的途径和形式有所不同。人民民主是社会主义的生命，没有民主就没有社会主义。真正的民主离不开自由。真正的自由离不开经济权利和政治权利的保障。坦率地说，目前中国社会还存在着贪污腐败、分配不公以及损害人民群众权益的种种弊端。解决这些问题的根本途径，是坚定不移地推进政治体制改革，建设社会主义民主法治国家。