No matter how much the mainland is currently stressing the need to forge links between science and technology and the marketplace, basic science is still one of the three key foci of its national research program, and the PRC currently has 100,000 scientists engaged in basic research.
不論大陸現階段如何重視科技與市場的結合，基礎科學仍是國家科研項目的三大重點之一，而大陸目前有十萬名基礎科學家從事基礎科學研究。