Scientists On Chinese Hoardings. (Image: X)
\n\nIn China's malls and metro stations, the giant screens that usually sell smartphones and perfume or update you about your favourite upcoming movies, have been showing a different kind of face lately: the country's scientists.
\n\nShopping malls in Heze in Shandong, Hulunbuir in Inner Mongolia and Hefei in Anhui took down expensive commercial ads and put up giant public-service posters honouring scientists such as Qian Xuesen, Deng Jiaxian, Qian Sanqiang and Guo Yonghuai. Zhengzhou, Nanchang and Xiangyang soon followed, with outdoor screens rotating the portraits and giving these figures the city's centre stage. In fact, in Zhengzhou, the busiest, most visible metro advertising slots were set aside for researchers. And ever since, the trend has reached Hangzhou.
\n\nThe entire line-up reads like a history of modern China. It includes rocket scientist Qian Xuesen, hybrid-rice pioneer Yuan Longping, Nobel laureate Tu Youyou, whose work led to artemisinin, and Nan Rendong, who led the building of the giant FAST radio telescope.
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\n\nPeople stopped to take pictures of these displays, the images spread on Weibo, and that public response turned a provincial effort into a national…
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