Building a New Ecology of Science Popularization in the Modern Science and Technology Museum System (People's Daily Review)
2023-09-13
Recently, the China Association for Science and Technology announced that since the start of construction in 2012, China's modern science and technology museum system has served over 1 billion offline public visitors. As an institutional innovation design for the Party's leadership in science popularization work, key progress has been made in the construction of the modern science and technology museum system, and the integrated development pattern of the modern science and technology museum system with distinct Chinese characteristics has gradually formed. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the pioneering idea of "technological innovation and scientific popularization are the two wings to achieve innovative development" has gradually become a social consensus of "popularizing scientific knowledge, promoting scientific spirit, and improving the scientific literacy of the whole people". In December 2021, the China Association for Science and Technology issued the "14th Five Year Plan for the Development of Modern Science and Technology Museum System (2021-2025)", which proposed a series of tasks and goals such as "strengthening the infrastructure construction of the science and technology museum system and promoting the construction of one science and technology museum in each prefecture level city by 2025". With the support of macro policies, the significance and value of science and technology museums have been further highlighted. It is not only a pure cultural space, but also an important symbol of a country's modernization development. In the past 10 years, China's modern science and technology museum system has grown from scratch, taking root, sprouting, blooming, and bearing fruit in various corners of the country. At present, 446 substandard physical science and technology museums, 657 mobile science and technology museums, 1764 science popularization caravans, 1124 rural high school science and technology museums, and the China Digital Science and Technology Museum have been constructed, covering the national science popularization infrastructure system. The new blueprint for the coordinated development of "national province city county" has been preliminarily presented, making positive contributions to promoting the fair benefits of science popularization services, improving the scientific literacy of the whole people, and assisting the comprehensive development of society. For the general public, modern science and technology museums are a vivid educational space that effectively promotes the balanced and inclusive use of science education resources. At the Zhangye Science and Technology Museum, elementary school students in Linze County, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, are bewildered and curious as they watch the robot perform. The construction of the modern science and technology museum system takes various forms of participation, interaction, and experience, which can better meet the higher level science popularization needs of the public and achieve the sharing of scientific and technological development achievements. For the country as a whole, the Modern Science and Technology Museum is a shining business card representing the image of the country and an important bridge for promoting exchanges and mutual learning among world civilizations. The special exhibition "Blue comes from blue -- the origin, development and exchange of blue and white porcelain" jointly planned and launched by the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Shanghai Museum, Nanhai Museum, Shanghai University, etc. will tour to countries along the "the Belt and Road" to tell the world the story of Chinese ceramic technology, and demonstrate China's ambition of openness, mutual trust, cooperation and sharing, and mutual learning of civilizations. Without the general improvement of the scientific literacy of the whole people, it is difficult to establish a grand and high-quality innovation army, and it is difficult to achieve rapid transformation of scientific and technological achievements. The Modern Science and Technology Museum vividly presents the rapidly changing scientific and technological achievements to the people of China and the world, laying a solid foundation for innovation in building a strong country in science and technology. (New News Agency)
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