“The significance of science popularization is to stimulate children’s interest in science, which will lead them to consciously acquire knowledge and grow into future creators and pioneers”, “We don’t need every child to become a scientist. The whole nation should have the spirit of innovation in all walks of life, which has a profound impact on personal growth and national development”.

On December 15, with a message from scientists from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the British Royal Society of Chemistry, China Children and Teenagers’ Fund (CCTF) 2018 “Future Park - Connecting the World’s Children with Technology” science popularization public welfare seminar was held in Beijing News Building.

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Future Park science project was founded in 2017 by CCTF and Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd, successively launched “Sciences in Hundred Schools”, “Sciences in Countryside”, “Community of Science Posts”, “Dream Summer (Winter) Camp) and so on, visiting 100 primary and secondary schools in Gansu, Guangxi, Jiangsu and other provinces, donating popular science books and textbooks to schools in western areas, benefiting more than 100,000 teachers and students.

Zhu Xisheng, secretary general of CCTF gave a speech 

Zhu Xisheng, secretary general of CCTF, said that in order to encourage more young people to learn, love and use science, the Future Park program will stimulate young people’s interest in science and guide the development of innovative thinking through a variety of online and offline science popularization activities. With the continuous improvement and promotion of the program, it is hoped that more young people will feel the charm of scientific innovation and contribute to the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. 

Zhang Yipeng, vice president of Yili Group, donated 2 million yuan to the “Future Park” public welfare program of CCTF on behalf of Yili Group

Zhang Yipeng, vice president of Yili Group, donated 2 million yuan to the “Future Park” public welfare program of CCTF on behalf of Yili Group, and donated 200 sets of popular science books to the teachers and students. Zhang Yipeng said, as a private dairy products enterprise, the Yili Group always adhere to the “Quality” and “Responsibility” two fundamental, for customers with high quality products at the same time, also never forget their own should bear the social responsibility, hope to bring more partners to join together to promote youth science and technology innovation education industry.

During the activity, the Future Park mainly showed the “Future Park Creative Micro Video Collection Platform”, the platform encouraged children under different cultural and education backgrounds with their own perspectives to explain the scientific knowledge around, truly achieve across languages, ethnic, and the degree of the education of scientific knowledge to share. Zhang Jun from Nanjing Xuanwu Middle School teacher to share his views, “the innovative talent training currently facing a teacher shortage of reserve, single teaching method, and many other conditions. However, the Future Park micro video collection platform educated the more vivid case, a few empty theory, the more feeling experience, a few lectures. Although it will take a long time for students to change their learning style, with the deepening of activities, I believe more and more children will join the team of scientific and technological innovation”.

Connecting the world’s children with science and technology is the bright vision of the Future Park international youth public science program. In the future, the program will continue to be based on the use of international advanced technology concept and knowledge, to build China’s youth with the European and American countries, especially countries along the “Belt and Road” teenagers communication platform, let the Chinese teenagers can be raised on the popular science education in poverty-stricken areas and aspired to have a dream from childhood. When they grow up, they can make contributions for the great rejuvenation of Chinese nation.