These Regulations shall apply to the construction of popular science facilities, the development of popular science activities, the construction of popular science organizations and the protection of the rights and interests of popular science personnel within the administrative area of this Municipality. Article 3 Popular science is a public welfare undertaking. Popular science work should follow the principles of government promotion, social support, national participation and national benefit, adhere to the scientific spirit, oppose and resist pseudoscience, and promote the formation of a social atmosphere advocating science and a healthy and civilized lifestyle.
No organization or individual may carry out activities that harm the public interest in the name of popular science, and may not spread and popularize ideas and opinions that violate the scientific spirit as popular science knowledge. Article 4 The municipal, district and county (city) people's governments shall incorporate popular science work into the national economic and social development plan, incorporate popular science funds into the fiscal budget at the same level, improve popular science facilities, strengthen the construction of popular science workers, and protect citizens' rights to participate in popular science activities according to law.
City and county (city) people's governments shall establish and improve the system of joint meeting of popular science work. The joint meeting of science popularization work is responsible for examining and approving the science popularization work plan and the annual work plan, coordinating, guiding and coordinating the science popularization work within their respective administrative areas, and their daily related specific work shall be undertaken by the science and technology association at the corresponding level. Article 5 The competent department of science and technology shall be responsible for organizing the formulation and implementation of the work plan for popular science within its administrative area, regularly carrying out the work of popular science statistics, notification, inspection and supervision, and disclosing relevant information.
According to the popular science work plan, the Association for Science and Technology prepares and organizes the implementation of the annual work plan, and regularly carries out monitoring and evaluation of the scientific quality level of the whole people and announces it to the public. Article 6 Departments of development and reform, finance, culture, radio and television, press and publication, education, health and family planning, market supervision and management, agriculture, forestry, marine fishery, meteorology, transportation, tourism, human resources and social security, and people's governments of towns (townships) and sub-district offices shall, according to their respective duties, do a good job in popular science.
Trade unions, * * Communist Youth League, women's federations and other people's organizations and social science federations shall give full play to their own advantages within the scope of their duties and organize popular science activities. Seventh support social forces to set up popular science undertakings. Encourage and support domestic and foreign enterprises, social organizations and individuals to support the cause of popular science by setting up popular science funds and donating property according to law.
Encourage and guide social funds to invest in popular science industry, engage in popular science services and product development, and carry out popular science film and television production, popular science book creation and publication, popular science exhibits research and development, popular science animation game development, popular science website and new media public platform development and maintenance, popular science tourism and other activities. Article 8 The Municipal People's Government shall incorporate major achievements in popular science into the scope of science and technology awards at the corresponding level, and reward organizations and individuals that have made outstanding contributions in popular science work. Chapter II Popular Science Facilities Article 9 The municipal, district and county (city) people's governments shall strengthen the construction of popular science facilities as an integral part of public cultural facilities, incorporate the construction of popular science venues into urban and rural planning and capital construction plans, and scientifically and rationally plan the number, scale and layout of popular science venues according to relevant national and provincial construction and service standards, local economic and social development level, population status and cultural characteristics.
Town (township) people's government, street offices shall guide and support the village (neighborhood) committees to integrate and utilize rural cultural service facilities and community comprehensive service facilities, and establish grassroots popular science facilities.
Encourage and support citizens, legal persons and other organizations to build, donate or cooperate in the construction of popular science facilities. Tenth enterprises and institutions are encouraged to build professional and industrial popular science venues according to their own professional characteristics.
Encourage qualified institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutions, high-tech enterprises and other enterprises and institutions to open laboratories, showrooms, production facilities or other places and facilities with popular science functions to the society on the premise of ensuring normal teaching, scientific research and production order.
The management institutions of high-tech industrial development zones shall, according to the characteristics of high-tech enterprises, enrich popular science resources, and regularly display and publicize high-tech products and achievements for the public every year. Eleventh city and county (city) people's governments should strengthen the construction of popular science information, integrate the popular science resources of departments, industries and regions, realize the interconnection of popular science service networks, and share * * * * resources.
Popular science venues should strengthen information and intelligent construction, develop intelligent service platforms such as digital popular science resources and applications, and enhance the public service capacity and brand value of popular science venues. Twelfth government-invested science and technology museums and other popular science venues shall be open to the public free of charge, and the specific measures shall be formulated separately by the municipal, district and county (city) people's governments in accordance with these regulations and the relevant provisions of the state and province.
Encourage social forces to invest in the construction of popular science facilities and open them to the public free of charge or at preferential prices.