Since its launch in 2019, the "Youth Science and Technology Literacy Improvement Program" has covered 1,039 rural schools in 27 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country, donated more than 380,000 science and technology books and more than 100,000 sets of science experiment kits, helped more than 310,000 rural teenagers and more than 20,000 rural school teachers improve their scientific and technological literacy, and achieved fruitful results in improving young people's scientific and technological literacy, helping rural science and education hardware and service upgrades, and building multiple scenarios for science and education practice.
This is what the reporter learned from the summary meeting of the fifth anniversary of the implementation of the public welfare project of the "Youth Science and Technology Literacy Improvement Plan" co-sponsored by the China Next Generation Education Association and the China Ping An Association.
In January 2022, the "Research Report on the Youth Science and Technology Literacy Improvement Plan" released by China Science Daily showed that the mastery of "scientific principles" among rural teenagers who participated in the project learning increased by 268%, and the mastery of the "scientific method" has improved by 101%, and the liking for "science lessons" increased by 47%, etc.
Wang Weiguo, chairman of the China Next Generation Education Association, said that in the future, the project will further expand the public welfare platform, develop and expand social synergy, and make new and greater contributions to promoting the implementation of quality education and helping the next generation grow up healthily and develop in an all-round way. (Reporter Dong Boting).