On March 2, 2017, under the organization of the Ministry of Transport(MOT), comrades from the China Institute of Navigation(CIN), the Scientific Research Institute of MOT, and the China Highway and Transportation Society(CHTS) visited the China Association for Science and Technology(CAST) and held symposium with comrades from the Department of Science Popularization of CAST on the research project “Construction of Science Popularization System of Transportation Industry”. Hu Fumei, director of the General Office of the Department of Science Popularization of CAST, attended the symposium, together with another 11 comrades, including, Zhang Long, deputy researcher of the Department of Science and Technology of MOT, Yang Xinzheng, director of the China Urban Sustainable Transport Research Center of the Scientific Research Institute of MOT, Wang Qun, secretary general of CIN, comrades Yan Zheng and Liu Yang, from the Department of Science Popularization of CAST and Wang Na, from CHTS.
At the symposium, Zhang Long, introduced the research background and significance of the project. Director Yang Xinzheng, the project leader, introduced the overall situation of the project, as well as the research content and investigation content. Wang Qun, secretary general of CIN, made a concise elaboration on CIN’s efforts in popularizing navigation science in recent years, and made comments and suggestions on how to further strengthen the popularization of navigation science among youngsters.
Hu Fumei, director of the General Office of the Department of Science Popularization of CAST, expressed her warm welcome to all the guests, and then made a detailed introduction, centering on some key aspects, to the institutional mechanisms, policy planning and promotion methods of CAST’s science popularization work as well as the science popularization conditions of other ministries, societies and institutes, and put forward some suggestions on the construction of the science popularization system of transportation industry. She hoped that MOT could join the leading group office ofOutline of National Action Scheme of Scientific Literacy for All Chinese Citizensto implement and promote science popularization.
Initiated by the Department of Science and Technology of MOT, the research project “Construction of Science Popularization System of Transportation Industry” would be chiefly conducted by the Scientific Research Institute of MOT, jointly completed by CHTS and CIN.
