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The National Science Conference was a conference of scientific workers held by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council of the People's Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 18, 1978. A total of 5,586 representatives attended the meeting. This conference is considered to be an important meeting held by the Communist Party of China after the "Gang of Four" was purged and the country had emerged from the Cultural Revolution. It is also considered to be a landmark event in the history of China's scientific and technological development< The National Science Conference was held on March 18, 1978. Xinhuanet. Popular Science in China. 2016-03-18. ( Original content archived on 2017-02-20) (Chinese) ./ref>. At the meeting, Deng Xiaoping concluded that "intellectuals are part of the working class" and "science and technology are productive forces". He rehabilitated intellectuals and announced that science would begin to play a large part in China's development.

During the Cultural Revolution, a large number of scientists were persecuted and most scientific research work came to a standstill. In 1975, when Deng Xiaoping presided over the work of the State Council, he carried out a comprehensive rectification and planned to "increase scientific research." But soon the "Gang of Four" and their followers described the report outline of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a "big poisonous weed" and said that the rectification was " bourgeois restoration." After the Gang had been purged just weeks after Mao Zedong's death in 1976, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China set the realization of the Four Modernizations by the end of the 20th century as the goal of the people of the country. During the Cultural Revolution, "Learn From Dazhai in Agriculture" and the National "Learn From Daqing in Industry" conferences played a large part in discussing and outlining China's socialist construction.