| The basic view of the CPC about the relationship between science technology and the society is that the science technology not only affects society, but also influenced by the society. This effect covers all aspects of society including positive interaction and negative effects.Developed from the Marxist science and technology and social relations, the idea of CPC’s also inherited from the idea of saving the nation by modern science since the modern times.The formation and development of this thoughts is including three basic stages, including the new-democratic revolution era, from the founding of the People’s Repubic of China to the the reform and opening up era and after the reform and opening up era.The CPC affirms fully about the social function of science and technology and proposes that the social impact of science and technology is multifaceted. The economic construction impact of science and technology is not only a guarantee of the wartime economy, but also the conditions of the current economy. The impact of science and technology on political constructions is an important way to enhance the international status and an important means of national defense construction, which meantime the E-government can promote the disclose and clean of the government. The cultural impact of science and technology is that it can promote construction of advanced culture. Science and technology plays an irreplaceable role in the use of resources and energy development and environmental protection, therefore it is also important means to promote the construction of ecological civilization. Science and technology is affecting society by promoting balanced development of education, improving people’s health and advancing social management innovation. The CPC reflects positive on the social function of science and technology had and claims that there are a series of problems in the process of applying science and technology, just as the emergence of ecological crisis, the information security problem, the bioethics ethics and so on.The CPC thinks positive on the social impact of science and technology. The impacts of economic on science and technology are mainly for:first, Superior economic environment is the basis of scientific and technological progress; second, economic development is a powerful driving force to promote the science and technology progress; third, the economic system reform can promote science and technology system reform. The influence of politics on science technology is mainly in scientific and technological activities and the judgment of scientific and technical personnel class attribute. The impact of cultural on science and technology is mainly as follows:education is the primary route to feed science and technology talents, innovation culture is the social basis of scientific and technological progress, and science popularization work is the important guarantee for the development of science and technology. The impacts of ecological civilization construction on science and technology is mainly about respecting and protecting nature while using of the science and technology to promote economic and social progress. The role of social construction on science and technology mainly as follows:the value target of using science and technology must be safeguarding the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of people. The people’s livelihood issues should be the keystone supported areas of science and technology. With social impact of science and technology on reflection, the CPC put forward to the economic drivers may lead to the internal development imbalances of the science and technology and too much emphasis on politics is blurring the boundaries between the two.The CPC’s thought on the relationship of science technology and the society is very distinct characteristics, namely a comprehensive and systematic, dialectical unity, objective and pragmatic. The CPC’s thought on the relationship of science and technology and the society, which is applied and developed from Marxist science and technology and social relations, has an important historical position. The ideas provide a theoretical guidance for the period of science and technology and social development and promote modernization of science and technology and the economy and society. |