Citizens have the right to participate in popular science activities and receive popular science education. Article 4 Popular science is a public welfare undertaking and an important part of socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization construction.
Popular science work should adhere to the mass, social and regular, combined with reality, adjust measures to local conditions, and take various forms. Chapter II Organization and Management Article 5 People's governments at all levels shall strengthen their leadership over popular science work, incorporate it into the national economic and social development plan, and take effective measures to ensure the healthy development of popular science work.
The people's governments at or above the county level shall establish a coordination system for popular science work. Article 6 The administrative department of science and technology of the people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for formulating the work plan for popular science in their respective administrative areas, implementing policy guidance, conducting supervision and inspection, and promoting the development of popular science work.
Other administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for popular science work in accordance with their respective responsibilities.
Township (town) people's governments and sub-district offices shall organize and carry out popular science activities in their respective areas. Seventh 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 8 The popularization of science is the common task of the whole society. All sectors of society should support and organize participation in popular science activities. Article 9 Administrative departments and institutions of medical and health care, family planning and environmental protection at all levels should strengthen the publicity and popularization of scientific and technological knowledge in combination with patriotic health care, preventive health care, health education, prevention and treatment of common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases, infectious diseases and epidemics, family planning, prenatal and postnatal care, reproductive health care and environmental protection.
Agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, land and resources, sports, meteorology, earthquake, cultural relics, tourism, press and publication, radio, film and television, culture and other administrative departments and institutions. We should carry out relevant popular science activities in combination with our respective work and give full play to our respective advantages. Tenth trade unions, the Communist Youth League, women's federations, social science associations and other social organizations should combine their own characteristics, give full play to their respective advantages, and organize various forms of popular science activities. Article 11 All kinds of schools and other educational institutions should take science popularization as an important part of quality education, actively organize students to participate in science popularization activities, and carry out scientific popularization activities such as scientific invention, scientific production, scientific paper writing and scientific investigation, so as to cultivate students' interest, love and scientific innovation spirit in science. Twelfth scientific research institutions, institutions of higher learning, natural science and social science organizations, should organize and support scientific and technological workers and teachers to give full play to their professional advantages and carry out various forms of popular science activities. Conditional, laboratories, showrooms and other places and facilities should be open to the public. Thirteenth rural grassroots organizations shall, according to the needs of local economic and social development, establish and improve rural popular science organizations, improve popular science networks, and carry out rural popular science activities around promoting scientific production and civilized life.
All kinds of rural economic organizations, agricultural technology popularization (training) institutions, agricultural technology schools and rural professional and technical associations shall popularize scientific and technological knowledge to farmers in combination with the promotion of advanced and applicable technologies.
Township (town), village cultural station, radio and television station, etc. Scientific and civilized production and lifestyle should be publicized. Fourteenth urban grassroots organizations and communities should focus on improving the quality of life of residents and improving the living environment, using local resources such as science and technology, education, health and tourism to publicize and advocate a scientific, civilized and healthy lifestyle, and organize various forms of popular science activities. Fifteenth enterprises should organize employees to carry out job skills training, technical competitions and other activities, popularize production and management, occupational health and safety protection and other related scientific and technological knowledge, and promote technological innovation, new product development and the popularization and application of new technologies and new processes.
Conditional enterprises can set up popular science venues and facilities open to the public.
Encourage enterprises to make public welfare popular science advertisements and increase relevant popular science content in product advertisements. Sixteenth newspapers, radio, television and other news media should set up special editions, columns and special programs for popular science propaganda, and produce and publish public welfare popular science advertisements; Film and television production, distribution and projection units shall strengthen the production, distribution and projection of popular science film and television works; Books, newspapers and periodicals publishing and distributing units shall support the publication and distribution of popular science books and newspapers; A comprehensive Internet site shall set up a popular science webpage. Seventeenth science museums, museums, libraries, cultural centers, art galleries, youth palaces and other popular science bases should give full play to the function of popular science education and carry out popular science activities to the public; Organize or cooperate with primary and secondary schools to carry out extracurricular popular science education activities for young people; Reduce fees for teenagers or open them free of charge during legal holidays and scientific and technological activity weeks.
Popular science sites and facilities shall not be occupied or used for other purposes without authorization.