"Fourteen Five -Year Plan" National Science and Technology Popularization Development Plan was officially announced

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 16th. The "Fourteenth Five -Year" National Science and Technology Population Development Plan "co -organized by the Ministry of Technology, the Central Propaganda Department and the Chinese Association It was officially announced on August 16. The plan is clear that by 2025, the proportion of citizens will have more than 15%of the scientific quality.

In order to implement the Party Central Committee and the State Council's decision -making and deployment and promote the development of science popularization in the new era, the planning of this preparation clarified the guiding ideology, main goals, important tasks, and guarantee measures of the popularization and development of national science and technology during the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" period.

Planning pointed out that the overall goal of the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" science popularization development is: the role of science popularization in the process of implementing innovation -driven development strategies and promoting the development of scientific and technological innovation has significantly improved. The atmosphere has been accelerated, the coverage rate of science popularization public service and scientific science popularization participation rates have continued to increase, and the proportion of citizens in my country has significantly increased.

Planning emphasizes that in the face of new situations, new tasks, and new requirements, according to the development goals, during the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" period, focusing on strengthening the function of strengthening the value of popular science work in the new era, strengthening national science popularization capabilities, promoting the comprehensive development of science popularization work, promoting scientific popularization Six important tasks, including coordinated development with scientific and technological innovation, improvement of citizen's scientific quality, and carrying out popular science exchanges and cooperation.

It is worth noting that the plan clarifies the specific measures for popular science popularization activities, such as organizing science and technology activities week, National Science Popularization Day, Public Science Day, and Science and Technology Workers Day. Serving rural revitalization strategies, organizing and implementing rural science popularization activities such as cultural science and technology and health, science and technology special groups, science and technology specialists, science and technology experts, and wealthy townships.

Data show that at the end of the "Thirteenth Five -Year Plan" period, the proportion of citizens with scientific quality has reached 10.56%, achieving more than 10%targets determined by the "Thirteenth Five -Year Plan" science popularization plan; in 2020, science popularization funds for the whole society will be raised. The amount was 17.172 billion yuan, an increase of 21.6%over 2015.

[Editor in charge: Shi Ge]

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