杭州市科学技术协会

On May 30, 2023, the 7th National Science and Technology Workers Day was celebrated together with the awarding ceremony of the National Award for Excellence in Innovation at the National Communication Center for Science and Technology of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) as the main venue, which was recently put into full use in China’s capital city Beijing.

Wan Gang, president of CAST, attended the event and delivered a speech.

Wan noted that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) clearly defined the vision, mission and tasks of promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through a Chinese modernization path which was featured with the integrated deployment of education, S&T, and talents. This pointed out the direction for Chinese sci-tech professionals to serve the nation and the people through innovation.                          

Wan expected Chinese sci-tech professionals to enhance their ideological and action consciousness in building a world science and technology power, and participate in global sci-tech governance with a more open attitude, thus helping build an open innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness at the new historical starting point.

In 2016, at an event conflating the general assemblies of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the 9th national congress of CAST on May 30 in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for developing China into a leading power in science and technology.

To commemorate the occasion and respond to a call from many Chinese science and technology workers, the Chinese government designated May 30 as the National Science and Technology Workers Day. Chinese science and technology workers enjoyed a festival in their honor for the first time.

Since then, various science and technology organizations led by CAST and China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) have held distinctive events and exchange activities on the day for sci-tech workers.

The National Science and Technology Workers Day was established to draw attention of the whole society to the role of innovation and the importance of talent and career development of science and technology workers. It encourages Chinese governments at all levels to improve communication with scientific and technological professionals and better serve their innovation and entrepreneurship needs. CAST celebrates this annual festival with a series of themed events for science and technology workers across China.

At the event, the 3rd National Award for Excellence in Innovation was presented.

7 research teams including the Marine Immersed Tunnel Construction Technology Innovation Team were selected from nominations for the award .

Professor Ma Dawei and other 25 scientists were recognized as model workers at provincial and ministerial levels, and Professor Ding Wenjiang and others totally 251 scientists, technologists and technicians were awarded certificates for professional excellence.

Under the theme of “Igniting your spirit”, 2023 National Science and Technology Workers Day consisted of publicity and promotional activities of 147 education bases for cultivating scientists across the country, the announcement of the final list of the 8th CAST Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program, the joint online launching ceremony of the second batch a total of 13 books on the theme of carbon peaking and neutrality.

At the event, a program of telling stories of scientists in maker space, and a program of talking with science with media convergence technologies were jointly initiated by CAST and other relevant departments and enterprises.

Intelligent CAST, a web portal and cell phone APP, Intelligent CAST was officially launched.

Intelligent CAST provided content varieties and multi-scenario services for science and technology workers across China and sci-tech organizations to which they are affiliated, demonstrating CAST’s efforts in digital transformation under the leadership of CAST office promoting informatization work in recent years.

The Intelligent CAST platform is expected to provide hardware and software support and background system operation services for local branches of CAST at all levels to apply for establishing homepages and opening online stores.

The homepage service for the local branches will integrate common working scenarios including office automation, Party development, learning activities to meet Party standards, organizational administration, individual member service, academic exchanges, science communication, STM publication, talent cultivation, and science competition and training activities.

The platform will provide science and technology workers with quality information and interactive programs within their scientific communities to get them more engaged in professional development, academic exchanges, science communication and international cooperation.