At the recently concluded 11th Congress of the Shanghai Science Writers Association, I was honored to be elected as a director and deputy secretary-general, which is really a dream that I never thought of before!
Under the guidance of the Municipal Association for Science and Technology, the 11th Member Congress of the Shanghai Science Writers Association was held in the Shanghai Science Hall. Based on Professor Li's enthusiasm and contribution to science popularization, he was honored to participate in this event as a representative of the Shanghai Science Writers Association, and was elected as a director and deputy secretary-general at the conference.
This is the second time that Dean Li has been affirmed and recognized by the Science Writers Association after winning the Outstanding ** Award at the just-concluded Yangtze River Delta Science Popularization Creation Summit Forum.
As a member of the Shanghai Science Writers Association, Professor Li has been attaching great importance to science popularization in recent years. Since entering the Good Doctor platform in 2015, it has published more than 300 original popular science articles, popular science shorts and other related content on the platform of Good Doctor, personal WeChat*** and **, today's headlines and ticket circles, with a total of more than 1.5 million views, especially in March 2023, Professor Li Wensheng's medical essay "Let's Work Together to Break Out of the Darkness and Run to the Light".
These popular science works have not only won the praise of the writers of the Popular Science Writers Association, but also allowed patients from the United States, Australia, Hong Kong and other countries and abroad to build confidence in more than 2000 degrees or even more than 3000 degrees of ultra-high myopia to all kinds of ophthalmic incurable diseases.
The progress of science has clearly contributed to the continuous improvement of people's health and living standards. Because science popularization plays a unique role in raising public health awareness, it can not only improve public health awareness, but also enable them to better understand the structure and function of the human body, and learn how to prevent and play their due role in some common ophthalmic diseases, with the ultimate goal of enabling everyone to enjoy the right to eye health.
Studies have shown that for every 1 yuan invested in popular science health education, medical expenses can be saved by 8$9. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified "health education promotion" as the preferred strategy for the goal of health care for all. The core of the construction of a healthy China is the improvement of the health level of the people, the popularization of healthy lifestyles, the enhancement of physical fitness, the improvement of health literacy, the formation of the health concept of "everyone is the first responsible person for their own health", and the strengthening of self-health management awareness.
On May 30, 2016, the general secretary of the National Science and Technology Innovation Conference, the Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Ninth National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology made it clear that "scientific and technological innovation and scientific popularization are the two wings of innovation and development, and scientific popularization should be placed in the same important position as scientific and technological innovation." Without the general improvement of the scientific quality of the whole people, it will be difficult to build a large army of high-quality innovators and to realize the rapid transformation of scientific and technological achievements." It can be seen that the importance of science popularization has risen to the level of national strategy.
Professor Li pointed out that experts to do science popularization is an important part of ensuring health science popularization, popularize complex medical knowledge to the people, so that everyone can understand, remember, and use, and suggest that the majority of medical personnel should take action to jointly do a good job in health science popularization, and transform the current passive health model into an active health model as soon as possible, and jointly contribute to a healthy China!Strive to make greater contributions to the popularization of eye health science on the larger stage of the Shanghai Science Writers Association.
Being able to cross over from an ophthalmologist to a popular science writer is something I never dreamed of before.
Life may be like this, just give, unexpectedly returned, but in the end, the harvest is often more than imagined!