Activities to popularize scientific knowledge
Large-scale popular science activities in China include science and technology week, large-scale popular science exhibition, and science and technology going to the countryside.
Science and Technology Week is one of the important popular science activities in China. Although affected by the SARS epidemic in 2003, the activities of the National Science and Technology Week are still carried out on the Internet as scheduled. The theme is "Relying on Science to Overcome SARS".
The activities of the National Science and Technology Week are very rich, and institutions related to popular science activities in all provinces and cities in China have taken action to publicize science and technology and promote the dialogue between the public and science. Every year, the joint meeting of science and technology countries forms a theme through consultation, and various departments will hold various forms of popular science activities around this theme.
The 2004 National Science and Technology Week with the theme of "people-oriented science and technology and building a well-off society in an all-round way" was held nationwide from May 15 to May 2 1 day. In 2004, the National Week of Science and Technology Activities was rich in content and varied in forms, which was highlighted in three aspects: paying attention to publicizing Scientific Outlook on Development, emphasizing the service of science and technology for agriculture, countryside and farmers, and paying attention to popular science education for minors. The main activities include holding a large-scale theme exhibition and a large-scale science and technology garden party in Beijing, a large-scale popular science activity in Xibaipo, Hebei Province, and a large-scale activity such as "Revitalizing Northeast China, Serving Agriculture, Countryside and Farmers, and Running Longjiang Science and Technology Through Train" in Heilongjiang Province.
Although the comprehensive popular science activities such as Science Week and Science Month are short-lived, their influence is very extensive. By holding large-scale popular science activities regularly, the enthusiasm of scientific and technological personnel for scientific communication has been mobilized, the public's learning and understanding of science and technology has been promoted, and the social influence has been expanded.
At the same time, in line with major international and domestic festivals, various national science popularization units actively carry out various forms of science popularization activities. Such as International Meteorological Day, World Health Day, World Environment Day, Earth Day, International Museum Day, National Arbor Day and National Energy Conservation Publicity Week. According to the holiday situation, all relevant units publicize the corresponding scientific knowledge through newspapers, radio, television, Internet and other media, and by means of popular science contests, speeches or large-scale cultural performances.
Popular science activities for rural areas pay more attention to the spread of practical technology. Since 1996, various localities have extensively carried out the activities of going to the countryside for cultural, scientific and technological health in spring and winter festivals every year, and organized more than100000 scientific and technological personnel to go to the countryside to help rural cadres and masses improve their cultural, scientific and technological quality.
In these activities, popular science lectures were interspersed. According to statistics, in 2002 alone, China Association for Science and Technology held nearly 90,000 lectures with more than 3 million participants.
"Due to the attention and support of government departments for popular science, China now has the best popular science environment in the world." -Bobby Chen China, a famous mathematician, has been to many places in the world. After comparing the working conditions of popular science at home and abroad, he expressed sincere admiration for the popular science environment in China.
The "Popular Science Caravan" was developed and produced by China Association for Science and Technology according to the requirements of the development of popular science work in China, aiming at popularizing science and technology, consulting science and technology and holding popular science exhibitions in remote areas.
The popular science caravan has five functions, such as vehicle-mounted popular science exhibits display education, exhibition board publicity education, science and technology film broadcast education, giving away popular science materials and books, and moving the popular science propaganda stage, and is known as the "Mobile Science and Technology Museum".
The popular science caravan was put into use on 200 1 and 1, and a large number of popular science activities were carried out in the vast rural areas of central and western China, which was warmly welcomed by rural residents. In 2002, the "Popular Science Caravan" traveled all over the country 17 provinces, cities and districts, and held about 654.38+ten thousand popular science reports and lectures in various places, with tens of millions of listeners.
In 2002, China also launched a "popular science through train" for the western region and the old, underdeveloped, marginal and poverty-stricken areas, which mainly carried out popular science exhibitions, reports, lectures, agricultural technology consultation, medical technology training, rich experience teaching, popular science film screening and other activities.
In May 2002, the popular science special train with the theme of "spreading science and civilization and serving the people in the old liberated areas" set off from Beijing and carried out publicity and service activities in Hebei, Henan, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces/0/4 counties and cities along the Beijing-Kowloon Railway. From June 5438 to 10, 2002, the popular science special train with the theme of "spreading science and civilization and promoting the development of the western region" sailed from Beijing to the northwest, providing services for people of all ethnic groups in 9 counties (flags and cities) along the railways in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and Gansu provinces. Wherever they go, they are very popular.
Popular science venues
Popular science venues and facilities are important places for the public to popularize education. By the end of 200 1, there were more than 240 science and technology museums in Chinese mainland, including 2 1, 8 comprehensive nature museums, 6 museums established in nature reserves, 5 professional natural history museums11,agriculture, aviation, aerospace, post and telecommunications, railways, Chinese medicine and so on.
Technisches Museum
Science and technology museum refers to a comprehensive popular science place, and its main functions include exhibition education, training education and experimental education.
The first phase project of China Science and Technology Museum with an area of 20,000 square meters was completed and opened to the public on 1988. 1999 50th anniversary of the national day, the second phase of the 20,000-square-meter project was completed and officially opened to the outside world at the turn of the millennium.
The exhibition contents of the new China Science and Technology Museum Phase II project mainly reflect the development trend of science and technology in the new century and the main areas of China's national economic development, including more than 300 exhibits in different fields such as aerospace, life science, environmental science, information technology, energy and transportation, materials and manufacturing technology, basic science, and about 400 exhibits of ancient scientific and technological achievements in China.
The Dome Hall of China Science and Technology Museum is one of the largest dome theaters in the world.
In 2006, a new China Science and Technology Museum with a building area of about 6.5438+0.2 million square meters will stand in the Olympic Park, and more modern facilities will make it one of the three largest science and technology museums in the world.
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum is a large-scale popular science activity place invested by the local government. The 9th Informal Leaders' Meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation was held in Shanghai, China on 200 1 and 10, and in Shanghai Science and Technology Museum.
Haier Science and Technology Museum is the first modern science and technology museum invested by enterprises in China. Founded in 1998, it was officially opened to the public in 1999. Haier Science and Technology Museum is a large-scale modern exhibition hall based on corporate culture and integrating science and technology, culture, tourism and entertainment.
National Museum of Natural History
Chinese mainland has 1 15 professional natural history museums, including 30 dinosaur and other biological museums, 15 planetariums and 70 geological museum.
The advanced technology adopted by Changzhou China Dinosaur Park is a model of China Natural Museum. The dinosaur park uses the means of scene creation to reproduce the unique living environment of Mesozoic with splashing waterfalls, cold and steep rocks, waterless oceans, dense jungles and vast caves. Fossil exhibition uses different methods, high-tech means, sound and photoelectricity, combined with film and television imaging, cartoon animation, dinosaur flip-flops, online games and various scientific and technological productions, which makes China Dinosaur Museum break through the traditional concept of museum and become a powerful modern new dinosaur museum integrating natural history, popular science, appreciation, amusement and participation.
China Dinosaur Museum has five main halls and six sub-halls. The total area of the museum is more than 20,000 square meters, and the highest point of the museum dome is 36 meters. These halls are interconnected by logical lines. Based on the history of biological evolution, this paper highlights the theme of dinosaurs from survival, reproduction, evolution to destruction, and reveals the profound theme that life and environment are interdependent and human beings must protect ecology and environment.
Education base
It is also an important part of popular science facilities in China to make use of the existing resources of scientific and technological activities and open them to the public to a certain extent.
From 65438 to 0996, the State Science and Technology Commission and the China Academy of Sciences identified the first batch of pilot bases for popular science education, including the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Chemistry, the Institute of Botany, the Institute of vertebrate paleontology, the Institute of Paleoanthropology and the Computer Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.