http://en.people.cn/n3/2024/0929/c90000-20225053.html
A wave of science popularity has swept across China, with some 200,000 activities of various types held on the theme of raising scientific literacy among the public and contributing to building a country that leads in science and technology. Beyond the science popularization activities, Chinese schools are also springing in action on their own. This autumn semester, many schools made adjustments to their science courses in alignment with the frontiers of new technologies and explored new ways to make such classes more attractive. In east China’s Fujian Province, more than 300 university-based laboratories and science and technology museums were engaged in tailoring off-campus science classes for primary and middle school students. They customized the procedures of such classes together with teachers. In December 2023, Fujian put forward 20 measures to improve science education, including deepening curriculum and teaching reforms, improving education resources and giving play to the public sites that are suitable for science popularization.
In particular, it required opening such sites as science and technology museums, observatories, and memorial halls of scientists to primary and middle school students free of charge. Some research institutes were made open to the public for the first time, covering the sectors of science, agriculture and environment. These local efforts were made in response to a set of guidelines on strengthening the education of science for primary and middle school students that was released by the Ministry of Education and 17 other authorities . The latest statistics show that there are 1,683 sci-tech and related museums across the country, of which 1,090 are free to the public.
People’s scientific knowledge to some extent determines the country’s development in the sector of science and technology. China aims to become a global leader in science and technology by 2035. Taking education and technology as basic underpinnings for Chinese modernization, it is committed to the strategy of invigorating China through science and education.
