The Secretary of the Leading Party Members Group, Vice President in charge of daily work and Chief Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) went to Anhui Province to make survey from October 21 to 22, 2021.

Zhang Yuzhuo had work discussions with Zheng Shanjie, Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and attended the opening ceremony of the 10th China (Wuhu) Popularized Science Products Exposition (hereinafter referred to as "Exposition"). Zhang Yuzhuo said in the work discussions that Anhui is a province with strength in science, technology and talents. CAST will strengthen cooperation with Anhui Province in the fields of science communication, academic exchanges and consultative services, and give full support to the construction of Wuhu and Tongling as pilot cities of CAST’s brand program "Innovation China" to make greater contributions to the construction of modern and beautiful Anhui.

Zheng Shanjie said that Anhui Province will take the initiative to undertake the resource layout of CAST and make every effort to provide service guarantee for CAST to carry out the relevant programmes. He hoped CAST to take Anhui as a pilot trial base for more reform and innovation measures to boost Anhui’s high quality development.

Zhang Yuzhuo attended the opening ceremony of the 10th Exposition and delivered a speech on the morning of October 22, 2021.

Zhang Yuzhuo delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the 10th China (Wuhu) Popularized Science Products Exposition on October 22, 2021.

Zhang pointed out that CAST joining hands with the Anhui provincial government in holding the Exposition is a vivid practice of implementing President Xi Jinping's important instruction of "Sci-tech innovation and science popularization are the two wings of achieving innovative development". The Exposition is an active exploration of providing Chinese citizens with high-quality supply products of science popularization.

Zhang Yuzhuo stressed that science popularization is an important symbol of sci-tech development, cultural prosperity and civilization progress of a country, a region and a city. Science popularization is the foundation for national prosperity and rejuvenation. We should strengthen the wing of science popularization to consolidate the foundation of innovation and adapt to new situation, tasks and requirements of the times. We should follow new development concept to accelerate the construction of a high-quality science popularization service system to create a new ecosystem for building up scientific literacy with socialized coordination, intelligent communication, standardized construction and international cooperation. We should constantly implement new ideas, demonstrate new achievements and expand new space to build the Exposition a highland of talent, innovation, industrial development and open conception, so as to cultivate opportunities and open up a new situation for the development of science popularization in the New Era.

Zhang Hongwen, Vice Governor of Anhui Province, said that Anhui will take the Exposition as an opportunity to strengthen organizing and policy support and investment guarantee to build a socialized science popularization pattern which was coordinated and promoted by the government, society and market for the two wings of “sci-tech innovation” and “science popularization”.

Sponsored by CAST and the the People's Government of Anhui Province, and under the theme of "Flap-up two wings of science innovation and popularization to win a creative and successful future", the Exposition has attracted 235 enterprises to participate, with a display area of 36000 square meters and more than 4000 exhibits (items).

During the exposition sideline programmes such as summit on the development of science popularization industries, forum on the development of science education programs for teenagers, and symposium on the construction of science popularization venues in communities were also held.

When he was in Anhui, Zhang Yuzhuo also conducted research visits at Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Chery New Energy and Wuhu industrial innovation museum.

Meng Qinghai, full-time Vice President and Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of CAST, Cheng Lihua, Deputy Secretary of Anhui provincial Party committee, Zhang Hongwen, Vice Governor of Anhui Province, and Han Jun, Vice Chairman of Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and President of the Anhui Association for Science and Technology, participated in relevant activities.

Tag: Department of Publicity and Culture, Department of Science Popularization, and Department of Strategic Development of CAST, Science Communication, 10th China (Wuhu) Popularized Science Products Exposition