Check in on the popular science map, play science under the "Newton apple tree", popular science + games, popular science + art, this popular science feast is interesting and informative!

The 2024 National Science Popularization Day in Shanghai will be launched on September 22. Go to Minhang to see aerospace, go to Hongkou to learn about green and low-carbon and navigation...... Shanghai's 16 districts will release creative and distinctive "popular science maps" to provide citizens with convenient navigation of popular science resources and open up the last mile of popular science. Children can do science experiments under the "Newton Apple Tree", and they can also experience the original popular science in the Game for Good "Science + Game" interactive experience exhibition.

Released the "Science Map" to open up the "last mile" of science popularization

Today, there are 64 national popular science education bases, 18 national scientist spirit education bases, and 305 municipal-level popular science bases in the city, which provide citizens with the door to understand and explore science.

In order to comprehensively improve the scientific quality of the public and open up the "last mile" of science popularization, at the launching ceremony, 16 districts in Shanghai released a creative and distinctive "popular science map" to provide citizens with convenient navigation of popular science resources.

For example, Minhang District has built a science popularization route with aerospace characteristics around the Shanghai Aerospace Science Popularization Center, Shanghai Aerospace Science Education Base, and Future Concept Aircraft Science Popularization Base. Hongkou District has formed a characteristic science popularization map with the themes of green and low-carbon and navigation science popularization. Huangpu District draws a hand-drawn schematic diagram of science popularization walking with the theme of "Central Science and Technology Innovation Zone...... Science popularization bases and science and technology museums have strung together the "scientific genes" of Shanghai, a city of science, and slowly penetrated into the spiritual veins of the city.

All kinds of enterprises and parks are based on scientific and technological innovation resources, give full play to the advantages of scientific and technological talents, and open enterprise exhibition venues in an orderly manner. For example, the Zizhu National High-tech Industrial Development Zone Exhibition Center will promote the cutting-edge scientific knowledge of 5G and AI to the public, and comprehensively display the development trajectory and unique charm of Zizhu High-tech Zone through the use of intelligent fusion, arc projection, physical projection and other technologies, so that innovative achievements can be brought to the public and promote the popularization of scientific research and scientific achievements.

With the holding of the launching ceremony, the "16th Shanghai Mass Science Communication Promotion and Selection Tree Activity" was also officially released. Compared with previous editions, two new sections have been added, namely popular science communication works and science and technology volunteer services, which comprehensively cover the fields of popular science creation and popular science services, and improve citizens' scientific literacy in a "matrix" and multi-faceted way.

Science and language to achieve "zero distance" of popular science knowledge

From the profound exploration of the universe to the science of life around us, from the inheritance of ancient culture to the modern scientific and technological innovation, a series of popular science lectures in Shanghai's "National Science Day" have become a stage to promote the spirit of science and scientists, and disseminate scientific ideas, helping the public feel the charm of science, cultivating the feelings of family and country, and stimulating innovative thinking. At the launching ceremony, Academician Wu Guanghui, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief designer of the C919 large aircraft, will explain the intrinsic connection between new quality productivity and scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance in simple terms, and stimulate the audience's in-depth thinking.

The "Huimin Science Popularization Express" - "National Science Popularization Day" special line aimed at the elderly residents in the community, and invited doctors and experts from 7 hospitals, including Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University and Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, to organize and carry out "health management of diabetes" and "Is my low back pain important?" Interactive lectures on popular science and other topics. For the youth group, the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the experts of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Jiusan Society were invited to organize and carry out interesting popular science lectures such as "Good Habits Make Good Children" and "Defeat Magic with Magic, Scientists 'Treat Insects with Insects'", so as to deliver high-quality popular science activities to the public.

In addition, the "Big Hand in Small Hand Science Popularization Report" National Defense Science Popularization Report Group takes "Great Power Heavy Weapons - Soaring in the Sea and Sky and Sky, Carrying Glory and Dreams" as the theme. The theme activities such as the "stars" chased by Yuanwang fully create a scene-based classroom science popularization experience in the form of lectures + experiences. In addition to participating in a number of popular science lectures, the public will also board the Yuanwang-1 survey ship, where experts will share the story of Yuanwang-1, learn about the construction and equipment of Yuanwang-1, and the scientific research direction and tasks of Yuanwang-1.

In addition to popular science lectures at the municipal level, various districts in Shanghai have also actively carried out rich and diverse popular science activities with distinctive characteristics.

Songjiang District has created a series of popular science courses of "3D Intelligent Manufacturing Engineer" and "Traveling in Mysterious Space to Tribute to China's Aerospace", doing a good job in the addition of science education in the "double reduction" of education, and stimulating young people's interest in advocating science and exploring the unknown in a form of high-quality and rich content and popular news.

Baoshan District held a domestic "AI + Robot" popular science knowledge theme exhibition, focusing on the development process and future trend of robotics and artificial intelligence technology, and showing the future vision and development blueprint of China's manufacturing industry.

Relying on VR (virtual reality technology) technology, Changning District has carried out the "Red Memory" VR cloud tour of red science popularization venues, through simulated visits to various red venues and red education bases in China, so that party members and white-collar workers can receive red education immersively, and help the "new era" apply "new technology" to tell red stories and vividly spread red culture.

Interesting and informative, the popular science feast brings together a variety of experiences

This year's "National Science Day" in Shanghai brings together a variety of immersive science popularization experiences to create an unforgettable science popularization feast for young people who love science.

A few months ago, a "Newton apple tree" carrying the scientific spirit and wisdom inheritance settled in the Shanghai Science Hall. It is currently the only "Newton apple tree" in China that has both a "United Kingdom birth certificate" and a "Chinese household registration book". On September 22, the main event of the 2024 Shanghai "National Science Day" - Newton Apple Tree Youth Science Experience Activity was held here. Children will follow the "Newton Apple Tree", visit the "Shanghai Science Hall", which is well-known in the science and technology circles at home and abroad, listen to the voices of their ancestors, inherit the spirit of scientists, and through a number of wonderful and interesting scientific experience activities such as "EEG confrontation" and "magical polarization phenomenon", they will enjoy the world of science, have "zero distance" contact with the frontier of science and technology, and plant the seeds of science in their hearts.

The Game for Good (G4G) platform of Shanghai Zhengxiang Digital Technology Research Institute will hold an interactive experience exhibition of "Science + Science Popularization" in the International Conference Hall of the Science Hall, bringing a new interesting science popularization experience to the audience in the form of gamification. This interactive experience exhibition will focus on the "I Am an Astronaut" and "Spark Journey" series of gamified science popularization projects cooperated by G4G, Xinhuanet and Shanghai Planetarium, bringing the audience an interesting photo check-in area that restores the environment of the space station, aerospace knowledge prize quiz and other interactive gameplay, entertaining and educating, using games to achieve interesting science popularization and promote the spirit of science.

Blending and weaving, the light of art shines into the city of science

"Science is a torch to explore the unknown, and art is a brush to express dreams." "Science fiction is not only a form of literature, but also an imagination of the future, an exploration of science and technology, and a deep reflection on the fate of mankind." At the launching ceremony, Guo Fan, director of "The Wandering Earth", Gong Ge, producer, and Ning Li, the translator of the popular science book "The End of Astronauts: Who Will Fly to the Uninhabited Planet", sent messages respectively, looking forward to more people continuing their love for science and art and embracing their own sea of stars.

Academician Wang Pinxian, professor of the Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics of Tongji University, will hold a book launch at the Shanghai Science Hall during the Science Day.

The Shanghai Science Hall Lawn Concert to be held on September 24 will invite the famous Shanghai Opera artist Mao Shanyu, the successor of the Yue Opera Fan School Han Tingting, the Chinese tenor Shi Yijie, and the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra to jointly perform, using music as a bridge to promote the in-depth integration of science and art.

The Putuo District Association for Science and Technology and the Shanghai Art Aid Public Welfare Promotion Center carried out the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Bamboo Culture Science Popularization + DIY Hands-on" activity, colliding with science popularization knowledge with intangible cultural heritage, and at the same time opening a hands-on art experience of science popularization, striving to create a dialogue between history and modernity, and the integration of science and technology and art.

Yangpu District allows citizens to experience the ancient method of making straw paper lanterns, leading them to go back to history, feel the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture up close, and experience the wisdom and ingenuity of ancient craftsmen.