Sun Yat-sen's Ideas Of Science And Technology In National Defense

Dr Sun Yat-sen paid much attention to national defense of our country along all his life. The science and technology of national defense was tightly connected with the fate of our country. He ascribed the lag of national defense to the underdevelopment of science and technology. His ideas of science and technology in national defense not only had once promoted modernization of national defense, but also will have a deep influence on today's instruction of national defense. So it has great historic value and realistic significance to study Sun Yat-sen's ideas about science and technology of national defense.Sun Yat-sen's ideas of science and technology had an evolutive process. During the 30 year's revolutionary activities from his going to Honolulu in 1879 to his death in1925, he made the armed battle as the main means of fight and formed his ideas of science and technology of national defense after devious and hardly exploration. Sun Yat-sen's ideas of science and technology experienced a course of study, germination, development, formation and application.Sun Yat-sen's ideas of science and technology of national defense have plenty of contents. It is very important for us to have a right idea of science and technology because it can promote the development of national science and technology. To a new thing we should not only have some acquaintance with it, but also know its essence. Science and technology have their inherent developmental law. So having a good knowledge and mastery of the essence and developmental law of the science and technology can promote the deep development of science and technology. Sun Yat-sen gave an answer to the essence of science and technology and formed his unique ideas of science andtechnology according to his abundant knowledge of science and technology. The instruction of national defense has a close relation with the science and technology, and Sun Yat-sen has an in-depth study about it.This paper will introduce the main contents of Sun Yat-sen's ideas of science and technology of national defense from five aspects: (1) Founded strategic ideas suitable for situation of our country according to foreign experience. (2) Armed the army with the modern science and technology, and across-the-aboard constructed army, navy and airforce. (3) Cultivated person with martial ability. (4) Founded scientific systems of army, and it represented the new characteristic of bourgeois army. (5) Connected the national defense with industry, and the instruction of industry was the base of instruction of national defense.Sun Yat-sen's ideas of science and technology of national defense have a in-depth influence and profound apocalypse in today's China. (1) We should pay more attention to the action of the instruction of national defense in the instruction of the country. (2) Science and technology will play an important role in the instruction of national defense. (3) Science and technology will play an important role in the instruction of the country.