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Form a science popularization joint force to strengthen the supervision of Internet science popularization information

2024-12-23   

The second draft of the revised draft of the Law on Popularization of Science and Technology (hereinafter referred to as "the second draft") was submitted to the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress for deliberation on the morning of December 21. In the afternoon of that day, the conference conducted group discussions on this matter. The attendees believe that the second review of the draft provides comprehensive regulations on science popularization responsibilities, activities, and personnel, which is of great significance for further promoting the development of science popularization in China and enhancing the scientific literacy of the entire population. They also suggest making good use of new media science popularization methods and strengthening the supervision of science popularization information on online platforms. Hao Ping, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, believed that the revision of the Law on Science and Technology Popularization focused on the outstanding problems in the development of science popularization, added special chapters to promote science popularization activities, strengthened the construction of science popularization teams, and improved the system and mechanism, which is of great significance for comprehensively promoting the popularization of science and technology and building a solid mass base for achieving self-reliance in high-level science and technology. He also proposed to focus on cultivating the joint efforts of the whole society to attach importance to science popularization and actively participate in science popularization, as well as further leveraging the important role of universities in science and technology popularization. The second review of the draft clearly states that "scientific research and technology development institutions, as well as higher education institutions, should support and organize science and technology personnel and teachers to carry out science popularization activities. How to better mobilize the enthusiasm of part-time science popularization researchers and teachers? Tang Huajun, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, suggested adding a sentence "establish corresponding performance appraisal and other evaluation systems" to the second review of the draft, so as to better mobilize the enthusiasm of relevant personnel in universities and scientific research institutes to do science popularization. In addition, the second review of the draft stipulates that "scientific and technological personnel and teachers should leverage their own strengths and expertise, actively participate in and support science popularization activities". Merely making regulations for technology personnel and teachers is not comprehensive enough Xiao Kaiti Yiming, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, suggested that this paragraph should be revised to include scientific and technological workers, teachers, medical and health personnel, media workers, etc. They should give full play to their own advantages and expertise and actively participate in and support science popularization activities. Lu Xindi, a member of the Social Construction Committee of the National People's Congress, suggested adding "highly skilled talents" after "scientific and technical personnel" in this paragraph. Science and technology personnel belong to engineering and technology personnel, mainly having advantages and expertise in research and development and theory. High skilled talents belong to technical workers, generally possessing unique skills, techniques, and skills. In the process of popularizing science, the role of high skilled talents cannot be ignored, "he said. A very important subject in science popularization work is the family, and science popularization in the family is also very important Deng Xiuxin, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, suggested adding a new paragraph, "Family education should strengthen scientific guidance and companionship according to children's growth stages and personality characteristics, integrate scientific knowledge and life practice, and stimulate exploration and cultivation of some preliminary scientific cognition and rational thinking." Further standardize network science popularization products. With the deepening popularity of the Internet, the public, especially young people, gradually shift their access to information to new media such as WeChat, Weibo, Tiktok. It is crucial to make good use of new media science popularization methods Wang Jianwu, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, proposed that the quality of popular science products on the Internet is uneven, and we must strengthen the review and control. "For the field of new media popular science, the standardization needs to be more systematic, including organizational leadership, goal planning, content products, audit and supervision, and all should be clear about responsibilities and standards. Only by comprehensively standardizing, can we give play to efficiency, become bigger and stronger." The second review of the draft stipulates that "Internet service providers should immediately take measures to prevent the spread of information if they find users spreading false and erroneous information.". In the group deliberation, this provision has attracted widespread attention. Members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress suggested adding "and reporting the disposal to the online public opinion department" to this paragraph. "A large part of the new Internet user groups are teenagers and the elderly. These groups often lack the ability to recognize popular science information on the Internet, and are more likely to spread false and erroneous information, which brings new challenges to the control of online public opinion." The direction believes that clearly stating in the provisions that network service providers report the handling of public opinion to relevant departments is beneficial for the network public opinion departments to timely and comprehensively grasp the relevant situation, and can also force network service providers to actively and prudently handle relevant legal issues. Zhang Daohong, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, suggested that this paragraph should be changed to "If an Internet service provider discovers, publishes or transmits false or erroneous information, it should immediately stop transmitting it, take measures such as elimination, prevent the spread of information, keep relevant records, and report to science and technology or relevant competent authorities". Lou Qinjian, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, also proposed that we should attach importance to the work of science and technology popularization on the Internet. The authoritative institutions and network platforms for science and technology popularization should take their respective responsibilities, do a good job in supervision, release, review and other work, timely discover, correct, and investigate the pseudoscientific information spread by the network platform, and maintain a clear pool of science popularization work. (New Society)

Edit:Yao jue Responsible editor:Xie Tunan

Source:Science and Technology Daily

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