中国刚刚取得一项举世瞩目的具有里程碑意义的成就:它已建成世界上最快的超级计算机——天河-1A号。该计算机比设在美国田纳西州橡树岭国家实验室的卫冕冠军快40%。这不是一个孤立的事件。多年来,其他能够反映中国科技能力在不断上升的常见指标,一直在不断涌现,比如,在世界领先的化学和物理学杂志上,来自中国的论文所占的比例在不断增加。 China has just made a landmark achievement that has caught the eyes of the world: it has built Tianhe-1A, the world's fastest supercomputer. The computer is 40% faster than the defending champion at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. This is not an isolated incident. Over the years, other common indicators that reflect China's rising technological capabilities have been emerging. For example, the proportion of papers from China in the world's leading chemical and physical journals is on the rise.