Analysis On Role Of Scientific Popularization Investment In Social And Economic Development

Science popularization refers to "the popularization of science and technology, the raising of the public in scientific and cultural level". Since the Open-up and Reform, with the growth of national investment and the smooth development of social popularization of science and technology, the scientific and cultural level of the entire nation has been improved greatly. However, the quality of the public in science is still poor, there is a big gap compared with that in developed countries, and it is far below the needs for realizing modern construction and comprehensive challenge, the social stability is even influenced by the poor quality. Obviously, the public's quality in science would not be improved consequently with the economic development and the improving of material living. It is established as important target in the sixteenth National Congress of the CPC to completely building the well-off society, to obtain an obvious improvement in ideological and ethical standards; the scientific and cultural qualities and the health of the entire people.To construct the public's quality in science has been defined as a social responsibility in the Law of the Peoples Republic of China on Popularization of Science and Technology ( hereinafter referred to as the law of science popularization) . Great progress has been made in popularization of science in recent years, but It is a long-term task for the popularization of science in China. The major problems in the undertaking include: the insufficient investment and simplified channel; the demanding for science and technology museums has not been well solved, the design is backward in exhibitions products and devices in science & technology museums, there are not enough professional staffs in development, the original innovation in books and video products is poor, the promotion is not enough in scientific spirits, thoughts and methods, the management and operation system is comparatively backward, theories in science popularization are lack of creativity, and so on. There are various reasons to result to the above problems. This paper, starts from the view of government's public finance, made an analysis on the resource channel, the investment direction, the function method and effects of funds for sicence popularization; the investment in science popularization since 2003 in Shandong province is used as an example to indicate the catalyst function of science popularization investment in the rapid economic and social development.The author holds, in the current period of socialist modernization, the science popularization is a long-term task, it could not be established easily in a short time, the specific effect could be not seen in a short peirod, and its social and economic effects could not be seen either. In a sense, the science popularization will go without both fame and interests. Therefore, it is hard to evaluate the input and output in this field. The input to the sicence popularization by public finance is key to the development of science popularization, the effect and the promotion can be easily seen. By the analysis, the paper means to appeal all the society to invest in the project of improving the science quality of the whole people with the scientific development view as the guilde, introduced by government, using all the social resours to form the common view: the sicence popularization is an important project involving the continuous development of the whole nation, it can not be done only by some departments or certain people, it needs the participation of the whole society.