China News Service, Beijing, September 22 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The reporter learned from the China Association for Science and Technology on September 22 that the latest "Statistical Briefing of the China Association for Science and Technology 2025" showed that as of the end of December 2025, there were 131,000 science and technology associations across the country. There are 213 national societies under the professional supervision of the China Association for Science and Technology, with 7.149 million individual members and 33,000 directors.
The National Science and Technology Association system consists of national societies, associations, research societies (society for short), local science and technology associations and grassroots organizations. Local science and technology associations are composed of societies at the same level, science and technology associations at the next level and grassroots organizations.
According to the briefing, there are 3,202 local science and technology associations at the provincial, municipal and county levels across the country. Among them, there are 32 provincial (autonomous regions, municipalities) science and technology associations, 332 city (prefecture, state, league) science and technology associations, and 2,838 county (district, banner) science and technology associations, with 383,000 representatives to the congress. There are 18,041 local science and technology cooperative-level societies, including 4,481 provincial-level societies, with 7.455 million individual members and 317,000 directors.
There are 110,000 grassroots organizations of associations for science and technology. Among them, there are 2,002 science and technology park science and technology associations, 35,806 science and technology associations of enterprises, universities, and scientific research institutes, 27,568 township and street science and technology associations, 32,722 urban and rural community science and technology associations, 10,867 agricultural technology associations, and 827 other types.
The "2025 Statistical Briefing of the China Association for Science and Technology" also shows that the National Association for Science and Technology organized 33,000 academic conferences and exchanged 1.682 million papers, including 938 international academic conferences and 140,000 exchange papers. Sponsored or co-sponsored 1,451 scientific and technological journals, publishing 389,000 papers. 47,000 science and technology innovation resource service docking activities were held. Published 14,000 group standards. Proposed 11,000 pieces of scientific and technological consulting suggestions, and organized expert members to participate in 11,000 scientific and technological assessments. It has joined 1,204 international non-governmental science and technology organizations and employs 2,500 experts. Hosts 171 foreign language websites.
The National Association for Science and Technology system manages 1,220 science popularization venues, 814 mobile science and technology museums, and 1,328 science popularization caravans, serving a total of 170 million people throughout the year. Throughout the year, 1.141 million science popularization activities were held online and offline. It hosts 1,611 science popularization websites and 3,757 science popular WeChat public accounts, with a total of 110 million followers. There are 2.134 million full-time and part-time science popularization workers.
It hosts 6,117 all-media channels with a total of 330 million registered users, builds 287 spiritual education bases for scientists across the country, employs 5.395 million scientific and technological volunteers, and conducts online and offline publicity activities on scientific ethics and academic style construction throughout the year, with an audience of 35.399 million people.
It is reported that the latest briefing data was obtained based on the "Comprehensive Statistical Survey System of the China Association for Science and Technology" and does not include Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions.
