“中国科学城令人叹为观止”，英国诺奖得主呼吁英中科研密切合作

Group 1 - The incoming president of the Royal Society, Paul Nurse, emphasizes that UK universities are increasingly resembling "third world levels" compared to China, urging for closer scientific collaboration between the UK and China [1] - Nurse warns that UK research funding is critically low, with government direct investment in research accounting for only about 0.5% of GDP, placing the UK in a mid-to-low ranking among OECD countries [1] - The assessment led by Nurse in 2023 concludes that the UK's research ecosystem is "fragile and precarious, in urgent need of reform" [2] Group 2 - In contrast to the UK, China's focused investment in research is yielding results, as China surpassed the US in the Nature Index for the first time in 2023, which measures high-quality paper publications in key scientific fields [2] - Although the US still leads in health research, China has outperformed all other countries in the overall number of top research papers published [2]