Chapter 59 Speech at the Founding Conference of the Natural Science Research Association of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region

(February 5, 1940) I am very much in favor of holding the inaugural meeting of the Natural Science Research Society today.Because natural science is a very good thing, and it can solve daily life problems such as clothing, food, housing, and transportation, everyone must approve of it, and everyone must study natural science.Some people think that China has never had natural science, which is wrong.Since the beginning of human life in China, people have to eat, and if they want to eat, they have to produce. There is the germination of natural science, and it gradually developed later, but in the past, natural science did not develop into a system.

Natural science is a kind of armament that people fight for freedom.In order to gain freedom in society, people must use social science to understand society, transform society, and carry out social revolution.In order to gain freedom in nature, people must use natural science to understand nature, overcome and transform nature, and gain freedom from nature.Natural science is to transform the natural world under the command of social science, but natural science has been hindered in its development in capitalist society, so this unreasonable social system must be transformed. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Border Region has carried out social transformation and changed the relations of production. Therefore, there are prerequisites for the transformation of nature, and the productivity has gradually developed. This can be seen from the production movement and agricultural and industrial exhibitions in the Border Region. Therefore, the current social system in the border region is conducive to the development of natural science.

The economy of the border area is backward, but it is more meaningful to do it. As long as everyone works hard, it can definitely be transformed into a better place. Marxism includes natural science, and everyone should come to study natural science, otherwise there will be many things in the world that we don’t understand, and we will not be the best revolutionaries. Printed according to a press release published in the "New China News" on March 15, 1940.