Science popularization activities
China's large-scale science and technology activities include science and technology week, large-scale science and technology exhibitions, science and technology to the countryside and so on.
Science and Technology Week is one of the most important popularization activities in China, and in 2003, despite the impact of the SARS epidemic, the National Science and Technology Week was held online as scheduled. The theme was "Rely on science to overcome SARS".
The National Science and Technology Week is very rich in activities, and organizations concerned with science popularization activities in all provinces and cities of the country take action to promote science and technology, and promote dialogue between the public and science. Every year, the National Science and Technology Week Joint Conference on Popularization of Science develops a theme through consultation, around which various departments then organize various forms of popularization of science and technology activities.
The 2004 National Science and Technology Activity Week, with the theme of "People-oriented Science and Technology, Comprehensive Construction of Well-being", was held nationwide from May 15 to 21, 2004. 2004 National Science and Technology Activity Week was rich in content and varied in form, highlighting three aspects: focusing on the promotion of the concept of scientific development, emphasizing the role of science and technology in "development", and promoting the public's dialogue with science. The 2004 National Science and Technology Activity Week was rich in content and varied in form, highlighting three aspects: focusing on the promotion of the scientific concept of development, emphasizing science and technology as a service for the "Three Rural Areas" (agriculture, rural areas and farmers), and focusing on science education for minors. The main activities included a large-scale theme exhibition and a large-scale science and technology garden party on "Science and Technology is People-oriented, Comprehensive Construction of Xiaokang" in Beijing, a large-scale science and technology popularization activity on "Science and Technology Enriching the People" in Xibaipo, Hebei, a large-scale science and technology popularization activity on "Revitalizing Northeast China, Serving the Three Rural Areas" in Heilongjiang, and a large-scale science and technology exhibition on "Revitalizing Northeast China, Serving the Three Rural Areas" in Beijing. "Revitalization of the Northeast, service to the three rural areas, science and technology train Longjiang line" large-scale activities, and so on.
Science and technology week, science and technology month and other comprehensive science and technology activities, although short, but the impact is very wide. Through regular large-scale popular science activities, mobilized scientific and technological personnel to carry out the enthusiasm of scientific communication, promote the public's learning and understanding of science and technology, expanding the social impact.
Meanwhile, in conjunction with major international and domestic festivals, the state units concerned with popularization of science actively carry out various forms of popularization of science. For example, on International Meteorological Day, World Health Day, World Environment Day, World Earth Day, International Museum Day, National Tree Planting Day, and National Energy Conservation Awareness Week, etc., the units concerned, depending on the festivals, publicize the corresponding scientific knowledge by means of science popularization contests, speeches, or large-scale cultural performances through the means of publicity and opinion tools, such as newspapers, radios, televisions and the Internet.
Science popularization activities for the rural areas, on the other hand, put more emphasis on the dissemination of practical technology. Since 1996, extensive cultural, scientific and technological, and health activities have been carried out throughout the countryside in the spring and winter of each year, and more than 10 million scientific and technological personnel have been organized to go to the countryside to help the rural cadres and masses improve their cultural and scientific qualities.
These activities are interspersed with popular science lectures. According to statistics, in 2002 alone, the China Association for Science and Technology system organized nearly 90,000 lectures, which were attended by more than 3 million people.
"Thanks to the government departments' attention to and support for popularization of science, China now has the best environment for popularization of science in the world." --Famous Chinese mathematician Chen Shengshen, who has traveled to many parts of the world, expressed his heartfelt admiration for China's science popularization environment after comparing the conditions of science popularization work in China and abroad
"The science popularization caravan is developed and produced by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) in accordance with the requirements for the development of China's science popularization work.
The "Science Caravan" was developed and produced by the China Association for Science and Technology in accordance with the requirements for the development of science popularization work in China, with the aim of carrying out science and technology popularization publicity, science and technology consultation and organizing science exhibitions in remote areas.
The caravan has five functions: displaying science and technology popularization exhibits on board, publicizing and educating on exhibition boards, broadcasting science and technology films and videos, presenting science and technology popularization materials and books, as well as mobile science and technology popularization and publicity stage, etc., which is known as the "mobile science and technology museum".
The caravan was put into use in January 2001, and has carried out a large number of science popularization activities in the rural areas of central and western China, and has been warmly welcomed by the rural residents.
In 2002, the caravan traveled in 17 provinces, municipalities, and districts of China, and held about 100,000 science popularization reports and lectures around the country, with an audience of tens of millions of people. The audience numbered in the tens of millions.
In 2002, China launched the "Popular Science Train" for the western region and the old, small, remote and poor regions, mainly carrying out activities such as popular science exhibitions, reports, lectures, agricultural technology consultation, medical technology training, experience in getting rich, and popular science movie screenings.
In May 2002, the "popular science train" with the theme of "spreading science and civilization, serving the people in the old areas" set off from Beijing and carried out publicity and service activities in 14 counties and cities along the Beijing-Kowloon (Beijing-Hong Kong-Kowloon) Railway in the four provinces of Hebei, Henan, Hubei and Jiangxi. In October 2002, the popular science train with the theme of "spreading science and civilization, promoting the development of the west" sailed from Beijing to the northwest, providing services for the people of all ethnic groups in 9 counties (flags and cities) along the railroads of 3 provinces and districts, such as Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, etc. The train was very popular wherever it went. Everywhere it went, it was widely popular.
Science venues
Science venues and facilities are important venues for science publicity and education for the public. As of 2001, there are more than 240 science and technology museums in mainland China***, including 21 science and technology museums, 8 comprehensive nature museums, 6 museums established in nature reserves, 115 specialized natural history museums, about 50 specialized technology museums in agriculture, aviation, aerospace, post and telecommunications, railroads, traditional Chinese medicine, coal, and the military, and 38 aquariums, with another 38 aquariums at the provincial level. Comprehensive museums set up by the Ministry of Nature 9.
Science and Technology Museum
Science and Technology Museum refers to the comprehensive science popularization place, its main function is: exhibition education, training education, experimental education.
The Museum of Science and Technology of China, a project of 20,000 square meters in 1988 was completed and opened to the community; in 1999, the 50th anniversary of the National Day, 20,000 square meters of the second phase of the project was completed, the turn of the millennium to the community to officially open.
The display content of the new exhibition hall of the second phase of the China Science and Technology Museum focuses on reflecting the trend of scientific and technological development in the new century, reflecting the development of China's national economy in the major areas, mainly including: aviation and aerospace, life sciences, environmental sciences, information technology, energy and transportation, materials and manufacturing technology, as well as the basic sciences, such as the various disciplines of different fields of more than 300 items, and the ancient scientific and technological achievements of China. There are also about 400 exhibits of ancient Chinese scientific and technological achievements.
The Dome Hall of the China Science and Technology Museum is one of the largest dome theaters in the world.
In 2006, a new China Science and Technology Museum with a construction area of about 120,000 square meters will stand in the Olympic Park, and more modern facilities will make it one of the world's top three science and technology museums.
The Shanghai Science and Technology Museum is a large-scale science and technology center built with input from the local government, and was the venue for the ninth informal meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders in Shanghai, China, in October 2001, which was held in the museum.
Haier Science and Technology Museum is the first modern science and technology museum in China funded by enterprises, founded in 1998 and officially opened to the public in 1999. Haier Science and Technology Museum is a large-scale modern exhibition hall based on enterprise culture, integrating science and technology, culture, tourism and entertainment.
Natural Museums
There are 115 specialized natural history museums in mainland China, including 30 biological museums such as the Dinosaur Museum, 15 planetariums and 70 geological museums.
The advanced technology applied in Changzhou Chinese Dinosaur Park is a model for natural museums in China. The Dinosaur Park utilizes scenarios to recreate the unique living environment of the Mesozoic Era by means of splashing waterfalls, cold rocks, waterless oceans, dense jungles, and flooded caves, etc. The fossil displays are not similar to each other. Fossil display using the same method, through high-tech means and the use of sound and light, combined with film and television imaging, cartoon animation, dinosaur modeling, online games, and various types of scientific and technological production, so that the Chinese Dinosaur Museum breaks through the traditional concept of the museum, become a shocking, set of museums, popular science, viewing, play, participate in the integration of the modern new dinosaur museum.
The Chinese Dinosaur Museum has five main halls and six auxiliary halls. The total area of the museum is more than 20,000 square meters, and the highest part of the dome of the museum body reaches 36 meters. The halls are divided and interrelated through logical routes. The history of biological evolution as the design background, focusing on the dinosaurs from the survival, reproduction, evolution until the destruction of the conception of the main line, revealing the interdependence of life and the environment, mankind must protect the ecology, protect the environment of the profound theme.
Education bases
Using the existing resources for scientific and technological activities, they are open to the public to a certain extent, and are also an important part of China's science popularization facilities.
In 1996, the National Science and Technology Commission (NSTC) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) identified the first batch of pilot bases for popularization of science and technology education that are open to the public, including the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Chemistry, the Institute of Botany, the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Institute of Paleoanthropology, and the Center for Computer Research of the CAS.