Chinanews.com, Beijing, December 24 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The results of the 2019 National Science Popularization Statistics Survey released by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China on the 24th show that in 2019, the number of national science popularization professionals and part-time personnel reached 1.8706 million, and the total amount of funds raised for national science popularization work 18.55 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), there are 1,477 science and technology museums and science and technology museums nationwide, with an average of one science venue for every 947,900 people.

　　This newly completed annual science popularization statistics shows that in 2019, the national science popularization undertakings continued and healthy development, and the overall trend is steady and upward, and multiple statistical indicators have achieved growth.

　　——The scale of popular science personnel has been expanded, and the composition of full-time personnel has been continuously optimized.

In 2019, both the number of full-time and part-time popular science personnel increased to 1,870,600, an increase of 4.8% over the previous year.

Among them, 151,600 full-time personnel with intermediate professional title or above or bachelor degree or above, an increase of 10.98% over the previous year, accounting for 60.6% of the full-time personnel in popular science; 20,100 and 40,700 full-time creative and interpreting personnel, respectively, compared with the previous year Increased by 29.38% and 23.77%.

　　——The nationwide science popularization expenditure continues to grow, and the infrastructure expenditure for popular science venues has increased significantly.

In 2019, the total amount of funds raised for national science popularization work was 18.552 billion yuan, an increase of 15.13% over the previous year.

Among them, the government allocated 14.771 billion yuan, accounting for 79.62% of the total funds raised, an increase of 1.42 percentage points over the previous year.

In 2019, the national per capita science popularization fund was 4.70 yuan, an increase of 0.25 yuan over the previous year.

75.09% of the national science popularization expenditures are used for the development of popular science activities and the construction of popular science venues.

Among them, 5.164 billion yuan was spent on infrastructure construction of popular science venues.

　　——The number of popular science venues continues to increase, and the number of visitors keeps growing rapidly.

In 2019, there were 1,477 science and technology museums and science and technology museums nationwide, an increase of 16 over the previous year, of which 533 were science and technology museums and 944 were science and technology museums; the exhibition halls of popular science venues had an area of ​​5.3738 million square meters, an increase of 2.22 over the previous year. %; The national average has one popular science venue for every 947,900 people; the number of visitors to science and technology museums and science and technology museums reached 243 million, an increase of 10.93% over the previous year.

　　——Science popularization activities benefit the general public, and the online participation model has become a bright spot.

The popular science work in 2019 benefited the public through various forms such as science and technology activity week, popular science (technical) lectures, popular science (technical) exhibitions, popular science (technical) competitions, popular science explanations, and scientific experiments, and had a wide range of influences across the country.

Networked online participation models continue to emerge, becoming the highlight of annual popular science activities.

A total of 1.149 billion people participated in various science popularization activities across the country, an increase of 28.65% over the previous year.

Among them, 118,900 special events were held in Science and Technology Week.

　　——Scientific research facilities are open to the society and have won universal welcome from all kinds of people.

National key laboratories, major scientific and technological infrastructure and other scientific research institutions and universities were opened to the public, and the number of popular science activities continued to increase, reaching 11,600, and receiving 9,479,700 visitors.

　　——Scientific exploration activities are very active and stimulate young people's scientific curiosity.

Various scientific investigations, small experiments and other activities have had a significant impact on young people. A total of 182,500 youth science and technology interest groups have been established nationwide, with 13,821,400 participants; 13,600 science and technology summer (winter) camps have been held, with 238.9 participants Million people.

　　——New media popularization of science has grown rapidly, and popular science books have rebounded.

In 2019, the spread of popular science supported by multimedia, especially new media technology, became more widespread. There were 2,818 popular science websites, 4834 popular science microblogs, and 9612 popular science WeChat public accounts nationwide, an increase of 4.84% and 72.09 respectively over the previous year. %, 36.01%, 135 million copies of popular science books and 99,184,900 copies of periodicals, both of which have increased significantly over the previous year.

　　——Science popularization work continues to contribute to the high-quality development of innovation and entrepreneurship.

In 2019, 9,725 public innovation spaces were built nationwide to host science popularization activities; 88,400 science popularization activities for innovation and entrepreneurship training, 28,500 technology project investment roadshows and publicity promotion activities were organized, both increased by 9.92% over the previous year.

　　The results of the 2019 national science popularization statistical survey also reminded that the development of national science popularization still faces two challenges: First, the number of part-time rural science popularization personnel has been reduced.

The number of personnel in 2019 was 409,700, a decrease of 7.7% from the previous year; the second is that under the impact of the rapid development of networked science popularization media, the number of popular science publicity facilities in some public places has decreased. Among them, in 2019, urban community science (technical) special purpose There were 54,700 activity rooms and 1,135 special vehicles for popularization of science, a decrease of 6.74% and 16.85% respectively over the previous year.

　　It is understood that the National Science Popularization Statistics is in charge of the Intelligence Introduction Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the China Institute of Science and Technology Information is specifically responsible for the statistics. The scope of this statistics includes 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, 31 central and national Relevant units of the government collected 67,000 questionnaires, which are the most extensive, most comprehensive, richest and most authoritative basic data for government science popularization in China.

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