Popularizing science and technology (hereinafter referred to as popular science) should facilitate public understanding, acceptance and participation. Article 3 State organs, armed forces, social organizations, enterprises and institutions, rural grassroots organizations and other organizations shall carry out popular science work.
Citizens have the right to participate in popular science activities. Article 4 Popular science is a public welfare undertaking and an important part of socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization construction. Developing popular science is a long-term task of the country.
The state supports popular science work in minority areas and remote and poor areas. Article 5 The state protects the legitimate rights and interests of popular science organizations and workers, and encourages them to independently carry out popular science activities and set up popular science undertakings according to law. Article 6 The state supports social forces to set up popular science undertakings. Social forces can do science popularization according to the market mechanism. Seventh popular science work should adhere to the mass, social and regular, combined with reality, according to local conditions, take various forms. Eighth popular science work should adhere to the scientific spirit and oppose and resist pseudoscience. No unit or individual may engage in activities detrimental to public interests in the name of popular science. Article 9 The State supports and promotes foreign cooperation and exchanges in popular science work. Chapter II Organization and Management Article 10 People's governments at all levels shall lead the popularization of science and incorporate it into the national economic and social development plan, so as to create a good environment and conditions for the popularization of science.
The people's governments at or above the county level shall establish a coordination system for popular science work. Eleventh the State Council municipal administrative department of science and technology is responsible for formulating the national science popularization work plan, implementing policy guidance, supervision and inspection, and promoting the development of science popularization work.
Other administrative departments in the State Council shall be responsible for the work of popular science according to their respective responsibilities.
The administrative departments of science and technology and other administrative departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the relevant popular science work in their respective regions under the leadership of the people's governments at the same level. Twelfth science and technology association is the main social force of popular science work. The Association for Science and Technology organizes mass, social and regular popular science activities, supports relevant social organizations, enterprises and institutions to carry out popular science activities, assists the government in formulating popular science work plans, and provides suggestions for the government's decision-making on popular science work. Chapter III Social Responsibility Article 13 The popularization of science is the common task of the whole society. All sectors of society should organize and participate in various popular science activities. Fourteenth schools and other educational institutions should take science popularization as an important part of quality education and organize students to carry out various forms of science popularization activities.
Science and technology museum (station), science and technology activity center and other popular science education bases shall organize and carry out popular science education activities for off-campus teenagers. Fifteenth scientific research and technology development institutions, institutions of higher learning, natural science and social science organizations should organize and support scientific and technical workers and teachers to carry out popular science activities, and encourage them to carry out popular science propaganda in combination with their own work; If conditions permit, laboratories, showrooms and other places and facilities should be opened to the public, and lectures and consultations should be held.
Scientific and technical workers and teachers should give full play to their own advantages and expertise and actively participate in and support popular science activities. Sixteenth news publishing, radio, film and television, culture and other institutions and groups should give full play to their respective advantages to do a good job in popular science propaganda.
Comprehensive newspapers and periodicals should set up popular science columns and special editions; Radio and television stations should set up popular science columns or broadcast popular science programs; Film and television production, distribution and projection institutions shall strengthen the production, distribution and projection of popular science film and television works; Books, newspapers and periodicals publishing institutions shall support the publication and distribution of popular science books and periodicals; A comprehensive internet site should open a popular science webpage; Science and technology museums (stations), libraries, museums, cultural centers and other cultural places should play the role of popular science education. Seventeenth health care, family planning, environmental protection, land and resources, sports, meteorology, earthquakes, cultural relics, tourism and other state organs and institutions, should be combined with their respective work to carry out popular science activities. Eighteenth trade unions, socialist youth league, women's federations and other social organizations should be combined with the characteristics of their respective work objects, organize and carry out popular science activities. Nineteenth enterprises should carry out popular science activities in combination with technological innovation and staff skills training, and if conditions permit, they can set up popular science venues and facilities to open to the public. Article 20 The State strengthens the work of popularizing science in rural areas. Rural grassroots organizations shall, according to the needs of local economic and social development, focus on scientific production and civilized life, give play to the role of township popular science organizations and rural schools, and carry out popular science work.
All kinds of rural economic organizations, agricultural technology extension institutions and rural professional and technical associations shall popularize scientific and technological knowledge to farmers in combination with the promotion of advanced and applicable technologies. Twenty-first urban grass-roots organizations and communities should make use of local science and technology, education, culture, health, tourism and other resources, and combine the needs of residents' life, study, health and entertainment to carry out popular science activities.