科學技術是第一生產力

1. • science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平 dèngxiǎopíng introducing the Four Modernizations 四个现代化 sìgexiàndàihuà)

Character by character

• 科(kē)branch of study
• 學(xué)learn
• 技(jì)skill
• 術(shù)method
• 是(shì)be
• 第(dì)(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 dìliù "sixth")
• 一(yī)one
• 生(shēng)grow
• 產(chǎn)give birth
• 力(lì)surname Li