Boosting high-level innovation with high-quality science popularization (Innovation Talk)

In the era of knowledge economy, the innovation level of a country is increasingly dependent on the general improvement of the scientific literacy of the entire population. The level of science popularization in a country is increasingly affecting its creativity and soft powerDuring the 2023 National Science and Technology Week, various regions held a series of colorful activities around the theme of "loving science and advocating science", including science train tours, science popularization explanation competitions, and science experiment exhibitions

In the era of knowledge economy, the innovation level of a country is increasingly dependent on the general improvement of the scientific literacy of the entire population. The level of science popularization in a country is increasingly affecting its creativity and soft power

During the 2023 National Science and Technology Week, various regions held a series of colorful activities around the theme of "loving science and advocating science", including science train tours, science popularization explanation competitions, and science experiment exhibitions. As a national science popularization brand event with high public participation, wide coverage, and great social influence, the National Science and Technology Week allows the public to understand science through visiting and experiencing, fall in love with science through communication and interaction, and promote the cause of technological innovation through high-quality science popularization.

Technological innovation and scientific popularization are the two wings of achieving innovative development, and scientific popularization should be placed in an equally important position as technological innovation. Advanced technological achievements can only be understood and accepted by the public through scientific popularization, generate economic benefits and practical value as soon as possible, and promote social development and improve people's lives. The deepening of scientific popularization can also make the scientific spirit and innovative culture more deeply rooted in people's hearts. In the era of knowledge economy, the innovation level of a country is increasingly dependent on the general improvement of the scientific literacy of the entire population. The level of science popularization in a country is increasingly affecting its creativity and soft power. If there is no universal improvement in the scientific literacy of the entire population, it will be difficult to establish a grand and high-quality innovation army, and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements will also be compromised.

Science popularization covers all aspects of economic construction, science and technology, education and culture, and people's lives. It has close relationships with relevant departments, enterprises, schools, research institutions, and a large number of scientific and technological workers, and requires the joint participation of all sectors of society. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's science popularization cause has flourished. The "Outline of the Action Plan for the National Science and Technology Literacy (2021-2035)", "National Science and Technology Popularization and Development Plan for the 14th Five Year Plan", and "Opinions on Further Strengthening Science and Technology Popularization Work in the New Era" have been successively printed and issued, and policy dividends continue to be released. In recent years, preferential policies for science popularization tax have been introduced, graduate students have been included in the credit policy for science popularization, exploration of scientific communication professional title evaluation has been launched, and the mechanism for science popularization work in industries such as health science popularization has become increasingly perfect. Brand activities such as "cultural, technological, and health" going to the countryside and "National Science Popularization Day" have been regularly carried out, forming a vivid situation of innovation and upgrading of science popularization work.

At present, the public's demand for improving scientific literacy is growing, and the demand for authoritative popular science knowledge is more urgent. At the same time, there is still significant room for improvement in the participation of all sectors of society in science popularization work. Further promoting the self-reliance and self-improvement of high-level technology through high-quality scientific popularization requires stronger means and more effective paths. On the one hand, we need to continue to cultivate and strengthen the team of science popularization talents, starting from both professional level and science popularization ability, as well as from the construction of incentive mechanisms and systems, so that a group of professional talents who can and are willing to do science popularization can stand out; On the other hand, it is also necessary to fully utilize online and offline channels, use various ways to amplify the voice of science, continuously strengthen interactive, service-oriented, and scenario based communication, enhance the public's sense of participation in science popularization, and improve the accuracy and effectiveness of science popularization. For example, pseudoscience rumors can be professionally refuted by consensus in the scientific and technological community, so that authoritative knowledge can reach the hearts of people and science can run ahead of rumors.

The integration of scientific popularization into various fields and links of economic and social development requires the joint promotion of the whole society. Through the collaborative efforts of scientific popularization and technological innovation, we will promote the formation of a good atmosphere of emphasizing science, loving science, learning science, and using science throughout society. This will enable the innovative wisdom hidden among billions of people to be fully unleashed and the innovative power to flow, providing strong support for the construction of a world science and technology powerhouse.

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