The National Science Popularization Capacity Construction Workshop and Shanghai Forum, jointly held by MOST and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, opened on the morning of December 12, 2007.

During the three day workshop and forum, extensive exchange and discussion have been made on how to enhance the national science popularization capacity in the new era, how to organize and carry out key science popularization activities with their own features, how to enhance the construction of the national science popularization base, and how to support the composition of science popularization works and the publication of excellent works.