我国青少年约三亿以上,他们将陆续成为我国社会主义事业的生力军。党中央和国务院提出,科技教育要从儿童时期打基础,这是培养科技后备队伍、开发智力资源的一项带有战略意义的措施。怎样在广大青少年中进行科学技术启蒙教育呢?其中重要一环,就是在开展课外科技活动中,注意启发和培养青少年的观察能力、思维能力、实践能力和创造能力。通过能力的培养,增强青少年对科学的兴趣,帮助青少年扩大知识领域,培养实事求是的科学作风、严谨细致的科学态度和百折不挠的科学精神。由中国科协、教育部、团中央、妇联等四个单位组成的中国青少年科技活动领导小组,决定在广大青少年进行一般科技活动的基础上,开展科学创造发明活动,使青少年从小打下热爱科学的基础。为此,全国第一届青少年科学创造发明比赛和 About 300 million of our young people are over, and they will gradually become the new force in the cause of socialism in our country. The Central Party Committee and the State Council have proposed that science and technology education should lay the foundation for childhood. This is a strategic measure to cultivate a scientific and technological reserve team and develop intellectual resources. How to carry out the education of science and technology in the vast majority of young people? One of the most important aspects is that in developing extra-curricular science and technology activities, we should pay attention to enlightening and cultivating the observation, thinking, practical and creative abilities of adolescents. Through capacity-building, young people’s interest in science is enhanced, young people are encouraged to expand their knowledge and cultivate a scientific style of seeking truth from facts, rigorous and meticulous scientific attitude and indomitable scientific spirit. The leading group for science and technology activities of young people in China, which is composed of four units: the China Association for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the CYL Central Committee, and the Women’s Federation, decided to launch a scientific invention-creation activity based on the general scientific and technological activities of the young people so that youngsters would lay science-loving basis. To this end, the first youth science to create invention competitions and