On June 7, 2023, the seventh general meeting of the Shaanxi Popular Science Writers Association was held in Xi’an, and Prof. Fan Yu was elected as the chairman of the seventh council of the association.

Fang Yu said that it is an honor and more of a responsibility to be re-elected as the council chairman. He said that the association should take the responsibility to accelerate the creation of popular science works, develop the science popularization cause and improve the level of popular science works, give full play to its own advantages, strengthen its own construction and promote its healthy development, strengthen the construction of popular science writers’ team and improve the service capacity of popular science creation. He also urged the members to expand the scope of popular science creation, innovative the methods of popular science creation, dare to pioneer and innovate, forge ahead with determination, and promote the Shaanxi province’s popular science creation work to a new level.

Li Zhao’e, executive vice chair of Shaanxi Provincial Science Association, attended and spoke at the meeting. Wang Jinkang, a famous science fiction writer, shared his experience in popular science creation. The meeting reviewed and voted on the “Work Report of the Sixth Council of Shaanxi Popular Science Writers Association”, and more than 60 members from across the province attended the meeting.