The scientific quality of citizens, the construction of scientific communities such as scientific journals and national societies, and the cooperation and exchanges with foreign scientific and technological organizations represent the level of a country's "soft power" in science and technology.
The reporter learned from the China Association for Science and Technology on the 19th that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country's "soft power" of science and technology has continued to increase, and the ability to serve key areas of national innovation has been significantly improved.
High-quality popular science services benefit a wider range of people
Scientific quality is an important part of citizen quality and the foundation of social civilization and progress.
Improving scientific quality is of great significance for citizens to establish a scientific world outlook and methodology, for enhancing the country's independent innovation capability and cultural soft power, and for building a powerful modern socialist country.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of my country, the scientific literacy level of Chinese citizens has been greatly improved. In 2020, the proportion of Chinese citizens with scientific literacy will reach 10.56%, nearly double the 6.2% in 2015.
Scientific and technological innovation and scientific popularization are the two wings to realize innovation and development.
In order to improve the scientific quality of citizens, over the past decade, my country has gradually established a high-quality science popularization service system.
Among them, the "Science Popularization China" online platform has a cumulative resource of 53Tb, a dissemination of 41.6 billion person-times, and a scientific rumor-refuting platform with a dissemination of 2.7 billion person-times.
my country has held National Science Popularization Day for 18 consecutive years, and about 281 million people will participate in 2021; two "Tiangong Classroom" lectures have been carried out, with a total of more than 4 billion clicks.
At present, the China Association for Science and Technology has also mobilized 125 well-known institutions to set up the China Public Science and Technology Association Quality Promotion Consortium, organized 22 enterprises to issue the "Scientific Quality Empowers Science and Technology Self-reliance" joint initiative of Chinese enterprises' public welfare science popularization, and initiated the establishment of 16 venues and social organizations A consortium of scientific and cultural venues.
In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of scientific and technological workers to carry out popular science, there are nearly 10 million popular science informants nationwide.
The China Association for Science and Technology has also established a science and technology volunteer service team, with 2.13 million registered science and technology volunteers; it has developed 25,000 grass-roots agricultural technology associations and built 339 small science and technology institutes of the China Agricultural Technology Association.
my country's youth science and technology education reform is also deepening. Activities such as youth science and technology innovation competitions have accumulated nearly 100 million people in the past ten years, and the "Talent Program" and college science camp activities have organized more than 100,000 high school students to carry out scientific research.
my country's modern science and technology museum system has also developed rapidly. There are 408 physical science and technology museums, 339 science and technology museums are open for free, mobile science and technology museums have accumulated 4,944 touring stations, the mileage of popular science caravans has exceeded 50 million kilometers, and a total of 1,112 science and technology museums in rural middle schools have been built. Place.
According to incomplete statistics, the modern science and technology museum system has served more than 850 million people offline.
In the future, the China Association for Science and Technology will also guide science popularization resources and services to favor less developed regions, especially the western region, vigorously carry out scientific and technological assistance to Xinjiang and Tibet, and promote the border and enrich the people, and strive to narrow the regional gap.
At the same time, we will continue to promote science and technology to help rural revitalization, deepen the "Smart Action, Baihui 100 Counties Village Tour", etc., focus on solving the problem of urban-rural imbalance, and promote the general improvement of farmers' scientific quality.
A number of excellent journals rank among the top in the world
Sci-tech journals inherit human civilization and lead the development of science and technology. The construction of high-level sci-tech journals directly reflects the national scientific and technological competitiveness and cultural soft power.
In the past ten years, my country's construction of world-class journals has boosted innovation and confidence, and the academic leadership and international influence of my country's scientific and technological journals have been significantly enhanced. The average impact factor of journals increased from 1.13 to 4.42, an increase of 2.9 times, and the average annual growth rate reached 18.9%.
The number of journals that entered the top 25% of international subject rankings increased from 7 to 96.
There are 25 journals ranked among the top 5% in the world, 20 journals in the top three, and 7 journals including "Journal of Magnesium Alloys", "Horticultural Research", and "Advanced Ceramics (English Edition)" among the first. The impact factor of three journals, Research, Electrochemical Energy Review, and Information Materials, exceeds 20, and has entered the world's top 100, achieving zero breakthroughs.
The sources of authors of Chinese sci-tech journals included in important international databases cover 122 countries and regions and 4,697 scientific research institutions, and the sources of citations cover 124 countries and 9,608 scientific research institutions, a substantial increase compared to ten years ago.
In the future, the China Association for Science and Technology will further implement the "China Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan", expand the leading journals, strengthen the reserve journal echelon, and promote more excellent journals to enter the world's first-class ranks.
Accelerate the cluster reform and digital development of scientific and technological journals, cultivate a number of publishing institutions with market competitiveness, establish an international-level digital publishing service platform and an open access resource platform, attract more high-level scientists to participate in the construction of Chinese journals, promote scientific research papers and Scientific data sharing.
Scientists' sense of spiritual value identity has been greatly improved
In the past ten years, scientists' sense of spiritual value identification has been greatly improved.
The China Association for Science and Technology, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and other 11 ministries and commissions jointly organized and implemented the data collection project for the academic growth of senior scientists. A total of 622 senior scientists and scientist groups were collected, and more than 141,000 physical materials such as letters and manuscripts were collected, and 338,000 digital materials were collected. More than 468,000 minutes of video, 556,000 minutes of audio, and 146 biographical books have been published, making it the largest, most comprehensive, and most extensive collection of precious historical materials for modern and contemporary scientists in China.
At present, the China Scientists Museum is about to be completed and opened. This is the first museum in the world with the theme of scientists, and it will surely become the spiritual home and emotional hall of science and technology workers.
The China Association for Science and Technology, together with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other 7 ministries and commissions, named 140 spiritual education bases for scientists, and jointly launched the "Backbone of the Republic - Science Masters and Famous Schools Publicity Project" initiated and implemented by the Ministry of Education and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and mobilized 17 colleges and universities to rehearse 18 The scientist-themed stage play has been performed for more than 400 times, attracting over 10 million people to watch online.
The China Association for Science and Technology has also vigorously carried out the construction of study style, creating a "study style preservation studio" and "Fengqi Xuelin theme community", compiled and created more than 5,000 excellent works of study style preservation, and spread on Weibo, B station, Douyin, etc., covering nearly 4 billion people.
The construction of my country's first-class society has achieved remarkable results
As a professional science and technology association, the National Society has played a unique role in the development of national science and technology through publishing journals and holding conferences to spread scientific ideas, promote the development of disciplines and cultivate talents.
In the past ten years, the construction of my country's first-class society has achieved remarkable results.
The members of scientific and technological workers of the national societies affiliated to the China Association for Science and Technology increased by 47.1% to 6.37 million, including more than 5,000 foreign scientists and 74,000 group members.
The level of academic leadership has continued to improve, and 129 academic awards, including the Liang Sicheng Award of the Architectural Society of China, have been selected into the "Social Science and Technology Award Catalog".
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia, more than 190 national societies have issued proposals and suggestions, and provided the World Health Organization with the latest research data and results of anti-epidemic with the help of more than 170 journals under the supervision of the societies, and closely interacted with more than 250 international organizations to serve the world. Anti-epidemic.
The scientific and technological service capabilities of the National Society are still increasing, and more than 3,600 group standards have been released, forming a group standard development mechanism that links with national and international standards.
The national society governance reform has also reached a new level. A total of 17 national societies have entered the ranks of 5A-level social organizations, and 22 societies have successively won the honorary titles of the third and fourth "National Advanced Social Organizations".
Foreign non-governmental scientific and technological cooperation and exchanges are more active
In the past ten years, non-governmental scientific and technological cooperation and exchanges with foreign countries have become more active.
The China Association for Science and Technology and important international organizations have held more than 280 global home conferences in China, including the World Public Science Literacy Promotion Conference, the World Forum on Science and Technology and Development, the World Young Scientists Summit, and the World New Energy Vehicle Conference.
The China Association for Science and Technology also strongly supports the establishment of international scientific and technological organizations by Chinese scientists, and the International Hydrogen Fuel Cell Association has been approved by the State Council.
By the end of 2021, the China Association for Science and Technology and its affiliated national societies have joined 372 international science and technology organizations. The number of personnel selected by the Association for Science and Technology has served as executive committee members or above in the above organizations, and 170 of them are chairmen and vice-chairmen.
The "Belt and Road" international science and technology organization cooperation platform construction project has attracted more than 200 international organizations and more than 1,000 national organizations to participate, involving 150 countries.
The China Association for Science and Technology also promotes mutual recognition of engineering capability standards and engineer qualifications with Myanmar and Pakistan.
At the same time, various measures have been taken to attract overseas scientific and technological workers to develop in China, building 108 national Haizhi work bases, 24 national offshore innovation and entrepreneurship bases for overseas talents, and 6 overseas innovation and entrepreneurship bases.
(Reporter Zhan Yuan of this newspaper, Beijing, July 19)