On April 12, 2017, seminar on popularization and research study of navigation science for adolescent was held by China Institute of Navigation (CIN) in Kangming Building, Beijing.
26 participants attended the seminar, including Wang Qun, Secretary General of CIN, Xu Ande, the former secretary of Education Commission of Dongchen District in Beijing, Liang Suoqiao, Business Officer of Training Bureau of Navy General Staff , Gu Weiguo, vice president of Higher Vocational College of SMU, Xiong Jing, Principal of Beijing Hongzhi Secondary School, Liu Yu, Deputy Principal of Beijing Runfeng School, Wu Tianrong, Principal of Beijing Hepingli 4th Primary School, Su Qiming, Curriculum Director of Beijing 5th Middle School Teaching Group, Hu Yuexiang, the former Senior Captain of China Shipping Group, Liu Jiazhao, Deputy Director of Navigation Department of Qingdao Ocean Shipping Mariners College, as well as other comrades including leaders and representatives from the primary and secondary school in Beijing Dongchen District, Xichen District, Chaoyang District, Daxing District.
To give a positive response to the implementation of Proposal of Ministry of Education and other 11 Departments on the Promotion of Primary and Secondary School Students' Research and Study Tour, this seminar was held around the theme of navigation science popularization and student quality education. The purpose was to integrate the superior resource of CIN with the school, offer cooperative space, innovate work forms, and effectively explore the mechanism and measures so that navigation science popularization platform could provide better service for students' quality education and research activities, hopefully make achievements by both sides.
At the seminar, the Secretary-General Wang Qun introduced the achievements made by CIN in science popularization work and construction of science population bases in detail. Furthermore, the development plan and resource platform construction of the science popularization work of CIN was elaborated. Around the theme of deepening and strengthening the adolescent's quality education as well as research and study practice, Secretary Xu Ande put forward eight suggestions based on the present situation of adolescents’ science popularization activities and their social practice in Beijing. Suggestions stress that we should transform the navigation resources in research and study practice into educational resources, curriculum resources and school-based resources, and give full play to CIN’s resource advantage in navigation science population thus better popularize the practice. Participating experts, teachers actively offered advice and suggestions combining the reality, expressed their willingness to jointly promote the practice of navigation science popularization and research activities in a healthy, sustainable, feature development mode.
In the end, the Secretary-General Wang Qun pointed out in his concluding statement that full attention shall be paid to the opinions and suggestions put forward by experts, leaders and teachers present in the conference. He also pointed out that we shall implement and promote the planning tasks of navigation science popularization on the basis of integrating and balancing navigation science resources, fully take the navigation science popularization and research study as an opportunity and driving force, gradually enlarge the coverage and depth of the work, gather resource advantage and achieve win-win combination to create a adolescent navigation science research practice platform, cultivate distinctive brand, and make contribution to national adolescent’s research and practice activities and their quality education.
