The May Fourth Movement brought "Mr. Sai" to China. The influence of science on national construction and development has increased over the past century. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, this paper reviews the century-old inheritance of the scientific spirit in China since the May 4th Movement in a perspective of the connotation of the scientific spirit, and discusses the step-by-step process of the Chinese people's understanding of science from the salvation of the country to the country's productive force and important cultural element. This paper also clarifies the position of the scientific spirit in the science and technology system reform, and analyzes the process of gradual deepening of China's science and technology system reform and currently existing problems in terms of the scientific spirit standard. Finally, this paper puts forward some suggestions for the existing problems and the outlooks of the science and technology system reform.

scientific spirit  /  scientific outlook  /  science and technology system reform