Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 4 The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council recently issued the Opinions on Further Strengthening Science and Technology Popularization in the New Era.
The Opinions put forward that science and technology popularization is an activity of the state and society to popularize science and technology knowledge, promote scientific spirit, disseminate scientific ideas and advocate scientific methods, and is an important basic work to achieve innovative development.
We should adhere to the leadership of the Party, highlight the political nature of science popularization, practice socialist core values, and vigorously promote the spirit of science and the spirit of scientists. We should adhere to serving the overall situation, cultivate fertile soil for innovation, and better serve the central work of the Party and the country with high-quality development of science popularization. We should adhere to overall planning and coordination, establish the concept of broad science popularization, adhere to open cooperation, and promote wider, higher level, and closer international science popularization exchanges.
By 2025, the role of science popularization service innovation and development will be significantly improved. The proportion of citizens with scientific quality will exceed 15%. The whole society will have a stronger atmosphere of loving science and advocating innovation. By 2035, the proportion of citizens with scientific quality will reach 25%, the high-quality development of science popularization services will be energy-efficient, and the soft power of science and culture will be significantly enhanced, providing strong support for the construction of a world science and technology power.
(Source: Zhejiang Daily)