Recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and the China Association for Science and Technology jointly issued Decision on Commending Advanced Collectives and Individuals in National Science Popularization. The Publicity Department of China MSA and the China Highway and Transportation Society were awarded the advanced collectives in national science popularization. Han Yanan, from China Communications Press, and Zhai Mo, from China Institute of Navigation (CIN), were awarded the advanced individuals.
Zhai Mo, board member of CIN, is well known as the promoter of China’s navigation culture and science popularization, China’s first person to sail around the world and Moving China Person of the Year. Since 2003, Zhai Mo has been committed to promoting China’s sailing culture and science popularization. In order to protect and promote China’s navigation culture, he launched the well-known sailing event “International Cup Sailing Regatta”.
Zhai Mo has been dedicated to popularizing maritime scientific knowledge to teenagers for more than ten years and attended many navigational public welfare activities for youth in various colleges and universities across the country every year. With his own sailing experience and stories, he has guided more teenagers to pay attention to China’s navigation and to popularize navigation culture.
From January 2007 to August 2009, Zhai Mo accomplished the first solo global navigation with an unpowered sailboat and was elected as one of the “Figures Touching China in the Year 2009. Since 2009, he has organized a variety of colorful public welfare activities for youth in navigation science popularization during the China Maritime Day, given public lectures on sailing for teachers and students in colleges and universities, and arranged for teachers and students of domestic navigational colleges to sail on board the ship with him and teach them sailing techniques. As a pioneer of China’s navigation science popularization, Zhai Mo has successively led the following series of events. In order to promote the “Belt and Road” scientific and technological, people-to-people and cultural exchanges and the development of China’s navigation culture and science popularization, he launched the sailing culture theme event “Retrace Maritime Silk Road”. This was the first time that China had taken sailing as a medium to organize large-scale sailing cultural exchange activities of all countries along the Maritime Silk Road, in which various forms of maritime culture and science popularization activities were carried out with these countries. In 2017-2018, Zhai Mo initiated the “International Cup Sailing Regatta”, which became a well-known domestic sailing event. It is of great significance for inheriting ancient Chinese navigation civilization and navigation technology, protecting China’s intangible cultural heritage, and promoting the study of ancient maritime silk roads and building the 21st century maritime silk road. During the period, several activities like public lectures on sailing for youth and sailing experiences were held. In October 2019, in order to popularize and improve the navigational awareness of Beijing citizens and promote the development of the capital’s navigation culture, he initiated the “First Beijing International Race”, filling the gap in Beijing’s non-nautical sports events. In addition, people’s navigation awareness, navigation culture and sailing sports are gradually spreading from coastal cities to inland cities.
News Source: The Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and the China Association for Science and Technology jointly issued Decision on Commending Advanced Collectives and Individuals of National Science Popularization.
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