Guangdong Science Center is a large-scale public welfare popular science education base invested and built by Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and provincial government to carry forward the scientific spirit, popularize scientific knowledge, spread scientific concepts and methods, implement the Outline of the Action Plan for National Scientific Literacy, promote the development of Guangdong through science and education, and build an innovative Guangdong. Not for profit, it has four functions: popular science education, scientific and technological achievements display, academic exchange and leisure tourism.
The core concept of Guangdong Science Center is people-oriented, spreading science and advancing harmoniously, so that the public can understand science while entering science and enlighten life wisdom while spreading science. The eight-character theme of "Nature, Man, Science and Civilization" takes man as the starting point and deduces the relative relationship between man and civilization, man and science, and man and nature.
Guangdong Science Center is located at the western end of Xiaoguwei Island in Panyu District, Guangzhou, surrounded by water on three sides and Guangzhou University Town in the east. The overall architectural image of the exhibition hall is a "carrier of science and technology", which symbolizes the development of science and technology in Guangdong, and contains four meanings of "pioneer in science and technology, braving the wind and waves, being smart and humane, and being lucky and wishful".
The content system of the first phase exhibition of Guangdong Science Center includes 8 theme exhibition halls (children's world, experiment and discovery, digital world, traffic world, green home, flying dreams, human and health, perception and thinking), 4 science and technology cinemas (giant screen cinema, ball screen cinema, dynamic cinema, 4D cinema), open laboratory, digital home experience hall and outdoor science square. In the aspect of exhibition content, comprehensive scientific knowledge is deduced with thematic design ideas; Pay attention to the use of high-tech means, organically integrate science, knowledge and interest, and let the audience get education through personal participation and experience.
Guangdong Science Center will make use of the resource advantages of Guangdong's economic and cultural province, combined with the unique education, humanities and tourism resources, and become an important display window of Guangdong's scientific and technological development achievements and an important popular science education platform and popular science resource center in the Pearl River Delta and even the Pan-Pearl River Delta region.