"Academician with white hair" gave a speech in the cloud, and netizens said, "This is the star we want to chase"
Our reporter Mo Xin
Xiao Xu is a junior majoring in geology at a university in Beijing. At noon one day not long ago, he retrieved the takeout, opened the phone stand, and prepared to eat lunch while watching a short video.
After a while, he saw an online lecture given by a "big cow" in the discipline, and he started it with great interest.
While eating and watching, more than 50 minutes are fleeting...
Recently, there are many netizens who have a similar experience with Xiao Xu.
Everyone found that you can often see the lectures of "Science and Innovation China Academician Lectures" on the short video platform. The video is full of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering: the 91-year-old academician Xu Zhilei, China's first batch of strategic Weapons research expert; 80-year-old academician Liu Jiaqi, who has been on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau seven times, has entered the North Pole three times, and the Antarctic twice, and has traveled all over the world; Academician Mao Ming of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has won two first prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and led the development of the world's leading 99A main battle tank...
After many netizens clicked in with the mentality of "try it out", they listened with relish, "I can't think of being able to take the academician's class in this life", "It's really promising, I actually understood the class taught by the academician".
Some netizens are still intoxicated after listening to the game, and they "urge" the next issue in the comment area.
According to statistics, since the first episode of the content was launched on October 29 last year, the total viewing volume of the 6 episodes of "Science and Technology China Academician Lectures" has exceeded 30 million.
While this program has set off a wave of popular science, it has also made more and more netizens become "knowledge fans" of academicians in seconds.
The stories of the academicians are "burning" and "warming"
Liu Jiaqi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a famous volcanic and quaternary geologist in my country. He often jokes that he is "post-80s".
In his speech, Liu Jiaqi emphasized that the seemingly unpopular geology is actually closely related to popular disciplines such as aerospace engineering.
"In the past, there were astronauts who were unconvinced and said that the spacecraft also needs to be directed by you who study geology? I said, we don't care about going to the sky, but we have to care about what we do in the sky, such as where to land, what samples to take after landing, how Take, these are all our business. Many samples brought back from the moon are analyzed here." In November last year, Liu Jiaqi joked in an "Academician Lecture".
Liu Jiaqi has entered Changbai Mountain ten times, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau seven times, the North Pole three times, and the Antarctic two expeditions. He has visited and inspected more than 60 countries and regions.
He took the lead in identifying the temporal and spatial distribution and rock geochemical characteristics of volcanoes in my country, bringing the research on the law of Cenozoic volcanic activity in China to an international level.
He used his actual experience to encourage young people: in the most precious years of life, we should cherish the time, and we should be very effective.
Academician Xu Zhilei has been involved in the research of "two bombs and one satellite" since 1963, and has a glorious past and honor.
He sat in front of the camera and talked about "subversive innovation" with the vast number of netizens. He understood that innovation is to subvert tradition. This "subversion" is not only in the replacement of technology, but also in "valuing the value of people".
At the end of the show, he also thought about the problem of "staying up late" among young people: the secret to maintaining enthusiasm is to ensure that you eat well and sleep well in your daily life. If you don't have enough sleep, you won't have a good ability to think about problems.
"China's amphibious combat vehicle is the fastest in the world!" Mao Mingman on the podium was proud.
Mao Ming, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wears plain clothes and has gray hair.
On October 26 last year, he stood on the podium of the "Academician Lectures". Facing the vast number of netizens, Mao Ming talked about this "crazy" thing in his opinion - making the chariot "fly" on the water.
Mao Ming proposed an innovative idea - to design a deformable car body, successfully breaking the technical "bottleneck" of the engine output limit, and perfectly solving the problem of the slow speed of amphibious combat vehicles in water.
Mao Ming has successively won 2 first prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and 1 first prize of the National Defense Technology Invention Award, and has made great achievements in the research of the weapons industry.
One of his "secrets" is that he still has the determination to make a "blood path" even in extremely difficult circumstances.
In his decades of research career, Mao Ming went deep into extremely cold and extremely hot areas many times to conduct experiments on tanks.
Even the harsh environment of minus 40 degrees Celsius in the Northeast Proving Ground could not stop his enthusiasm for scientific research.
Under his design, China produced the world's first information-based tank, the 99A tank.
When top scientists break the "dimension wall", disseminate knowledge through online lectures, and chat with the knowledge-seeking public, their spirit is also inspiring a new generation of young people.
The "chemical reaction" of "Internet + scientific and technological innovation knowledge dissemination"
At present, China is on the road from a "big country in science and technology" to a "power in science and technology". Although technological innovations in major fields continue to make breakthroughs, it is still "thirsty" for scientific innovation, especially for basic theoretical innovations in natural science.
This requires cultivating a large number of young people who are interested in natural sciences and stimulating their enthusiasm for scientific research and innovation.
In addition, the dissemination of knowledge on the Internet is mixed, both true and false, resulting in some pseudosciences often "taking advantage of loopholes" and misleading many public.
Based on this realistic background, the "Science and Technology Innovation Platform" of the China Association for Science and Technology has joined forces with Douyin, Xigua Video and Toutiao to set up the "Academician Lectures" column.
This column strives to use the method of "Internet + scientific and technological innovation knowledge dissemination" to combine the strengthening of authoritative scientific knowledge dissemination with the diffusion of knowledge dissemination scope, thus arousing a wonderful "chemical reaction" between the group of scientists and the Internet platform.
The guest columns are all academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
They stand at the forefront of technology in the fields of tank innovation, high-speed rail safety, geology and moon landing engineering, and share top scientific and technological knowledge and rich life experiences through online lectures.
Many of these academicians are in their 80s and 90s and are authorities in various fields. They share knowledge online and interact with netizens in an easy-to-understand way.
Their spirit of painstaking research and perseverance to climb the peak of science and technology has also touched many netizens.
"It was unexpected that millions of people watched the first episode. The short video platform is a new and good stage for disseminating scientific knowledge," said Academician Liu Jiaqi.
In his view, academicians walk out of the study room, laboratory, and classroom to conduct knowledge popularization facing the camera and the public. This form of knowledge sharing is not only a powerful attraction for science enthusiasts, but also in the spirit of scientific knowledge innovation. It also has a huge spreading ability.
Moreover, the strong communication effect and the interaction with netizens have also brought the academicians and netizens who watched the lecture videos closer to each other, both intellectually and emotionally.
Netizen: This is the "star" we want to chase
In fact, on the short video platform, in addition to the popular science lectures of academicians, inspirational stories of scientists and short videos related to scientific research spirit, there have been many popular styles.
Taking the short video platform Douyin as an example, the number of views on topics related to the late Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, was nearly 9 billion. When the Shenzhou 13 carried the enthusiasm of the people of the whole country and successfully flew into the sky, the search volume of related videos on Douyin reached 10.4 100 million. Topics related to female astronaut Wang Yaping have been read over 500 million, and scientific research stories related to astronauts have also touched countless netizens in front of the screen.
On March 22, 2021, Peng Shilu, the son of Martyr Peng Pai and the first chief engineer of my country's nuclear submarines, passed away. The Xinhua Daily Telegram Douyin account broadcasted his last short video to encourage the younger generation of the nuclear industry before his death, which soon became a hit.
The content in just 21 seconds has over 10 million views and nearly 1 million likes.
Whenever the stories of outstanding scientists are known to people through short videos, there will always be netizens in the comment area who will type "This is the 'star' we want to chase."
This simple comment can easily get a wide range of responses from netizens, and this comment alone can get hundreds of thousands of likes.
Through short videos, people found that scientists are not unattainable, and they are just as keen to express and pass on ideas as ordinary people.
It is only in their eyes that the inheritance of the spirit of scientific innovation and the breakthrough of scientific research achievements are their lifelong pursuits that they are willing to dedicate.
Today, pan-knowledge short videos are on the rise and become a new trend.
According to Zhang Fuping, vice president and editor-in-chief of Beijing Zidiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.: "The playback volume of pan-knowledge short video content has accounted for 20% of the video playback volume on the entire platform, and 1 out of every 5 videos people watch is pan-knowledge. Knowledge videos. At the same time, there are more than 1 million pan-knowledge live broadcasts on Douyin. The content of technological innovation is becoming one of the favorite content of platform users.”
On the short video platform, people have the opportunity to listen to the astronomers of the National Astronomical Observatory talking about the stars and the sea, and have the opportunity to listen to the senior professor of physics using his childhood anecdotes to interpret those physics that make people puzzled, and also have the opportunity to live broadcast at any time. Learn about seemingly unfamiliar but interesting knowledge in subjects such as aesthetics, atmospheric physics, and geology.
And scientists also have an additional channel to share knowledge and show themselves.
As a netizen said in the comment section of the "Academician Lectures" program: "The knowledge and spirit of propaganda output by scientists and academicians will make up the daily growth of ordinary people, even if it cannot change our life trajectory, but At least, when people look back at these people who are deeply involved in the field of scientific research and constantly promote the development of the motherland, they will be moved by the attitude of the courage to study."