A ceremony was held in Beijing on April 27 to mark the launch of the new round of the project to enhance Spring Bud girls' sci-tech literacy, under the Spring Bud Project — Dream of the Future Action.

The ceremony was attended by Huang Xiaowei, Vice-President and First Member of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF); Shing-Tung Yau, a world-renowned mathematician and foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Wang Zhizhen, a CAS member; Wang Yaping, Chinese astronaut and Vice-President of the ACWF; Song Li, Member of the Secretariat of the ACWF; representatives of the China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF) and the Tencent Foundation; and representatives of Spring Bud girls.

During the past 35 years, the Spring Bud Project has kept pace with the times, proactively responded to the targets and requirements of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and promoted the realization of the beautiful vision that sci-tech innovation will become an inexhaustible source of motivation for the development of human civilization.

Since 2021, the CCTF has carried out the project to enhance girls' sci-tech literacy both online and offline, which stresses universal education and differentiated personnel training, hardware donation and resource empowerment to help girls have a bright prospect in the sci-tech sector. So far, the project has been implemented in nine provinces, benefiting nearly 10,000 girls.

At the ceremony, representatives of the CCTF and the Tencent Foundation jointly announced the opening of the new round of the project to enhance Spring Bud girls' sci-tech literacy. It was primarily designed to target science and digital education, create more opportunities for Spring Bud girls in middle and high schools to experience advanced sci-tech equipment, visit various sci-tech exhibitions and have an access to inclusive and dual-teacher sci-tech literacy classrooms, take frontier technologies and cultural confidence into account in the making of sci-tech camping activities. In the meantime, the project provides teenage aspirants of sci-tech development with opportunities to engage in scientific research and communicate with outstanding women sci-tech workers, and fundamentally improve the sci-tech literacy as well as digital competence of girls.

After the ceremony, Spring Bud girls conducted a study tour in the China Science and Technology Museum to closely explore the mystery of science and technology and further open personal horizon. They said they will strive to learn about science and technology, and embrace the future of science and technology with enthusiasm.

(Source: CCTF/Women of China)