为认真贯彻国务院的指示精神，1990年国家科委、中国科学院、国家教委、新闻出版署联合印发通知，提出三项明确要求：①各新闻单位要通过各种传播媒介宣传名词统一的重要意义，并带头使用已公布的名词。②各编辑出版单位今后出版的有关书刊、文献、资料，要求使用公布的名词。特别是各种工具书，应把是否使用已公布的规范名词作为衡量该书质量的标准之一。③凡已公布的各学科名词，今后编写出版的各类教材都应遵照使用。这一通知精神，有力促进了全国科技名词委公布的科学技术名词在各个领域的应用。　　

全国科学技术名词审定委员会（以下简称全国科技名词委）的任务是负责制定我国科学技术名词规范化工作的方针、政策、原则和规划；负责组织科学技术各学科的名词审定、公布及协调、推广应用工作；开展海峡两岸及华语地区科学技术名词的交流、协调和统一工作；组织开展中国术语学学科建设和国内外术语学学术交流活动。全国科技名词委的工作方针是：依靠专家、科学审定、积极推广，服务科技创新和经济社会发展。

钱三强院士、卢嘉锡院士、路甬祥院士、白春礼院士先后担任全国科技名词委全国委员会主任委员，副主任委员和常务委员由中共中央宣传部、科学技术部、中国科学院、教育部、国家市场监督管理总局、中国科学技术协会、中国社会科学院、中国工程院、中国人民解放军军事科学院、国家自然科学基金委员会、国家语言文字工作委员会等部门和单位的负责同志，以及部分专家代表担任。同时由科学技术部和中国科学院共同聘请一百四余名各领域著名学者、专家担任委员。

全国科技名词委的办事机构为全国科技名词委事务中心，其主要职责为执行全国科技名词委各项决议；组织实施和落实科学技术名词审定和公布任务；组织与协调各审定委员会的工作；编辑出版已公布科学技术名词出版物；开展国内外学术交流；组织海峡两岸及港澳地区科学技术名词交流对照统一工作；开展科学技术名词规范宣传推广和科学普及工作；处理全国科技名词委日常事务。

全国科技名词委成立以来，一直受到党和国家的高度重视。李鹏、万里、方毅、张劲夫、钱学森、钱伟长、卢嘉锡、周光召、宋健、许嘉璐、路甬祥等国家领导人多次给予指示、贺信、题词和莅会指导，严济慈、吴阶平、钱伟长、朱光亚、宋健、许嘉璐、韩启德等老一辈科学家亲自担任特邀顾问，指导全国科技名词委的工作，这些都极大地鼓舞激励了广大专家、学者参与科学技术名词规范化活动。

截至2021年10月，全国科技名词委组建科学技术各领域名词审定委员会133个，审定公布天文学、物理学、生物化学、电子学、农学、医学、语言学、教育学等140余种规范名词，内容覆盖基础科学、工程与技术科学、农业科学、医学、人文社会科学、军事科学等各个领域。

全国科技名词委建立了权威的术语知识服务平台——术语在线(termonline.cn)，通过网络向社会提供公益性科学技术名词查询服务，用户涵盖全球150多个国家和地区。开发了术语图谱、术语标注、术语校对等多元化的特色知识服务，术语在线已成为全球中文术语数据最全、数据质量最高、功能最完备的专业术语知识服务平台。通过“学习强国”平台开办“每日科技名词”栏目，立足全党、面向社会普及规范的科学技术名词。在中共中央宣传部的支持下，开展新闻出版职业技术人员继续教育培训，促进了科学技术名词在出版物中的规范使用。全国科技名词委还积极支持民族地区开展科学技术名词规范化工作。

全国科技名词委积极稳妥推进海峡两岸科学技术名词交流对照统一工作，累计出版近30个学科的两岸科学技术名词交流对照本。“十三五”期间，由路甬祥同志任名誉总主编、白春礼同志任总主编、海峡两岸专家共同编纂的55万条10卷本的《中华科学技术大词典》，以及由全国科技名词委根据两岸多年来交流对照成果编纂出版的《两岸科技常用词典》《两岸中小学生科技词汇》《两岸科学技术名词差异手册》等工具书，促进了两岸科教文化的交流合作。

全国科技名词委积极组织开展理论研究工作，推动中国特色术语学学科建设。出版“中国术语学建设书系”“中国科学技术名词规范化理论建设书系”，培育、扩展理论研究队伍，举办国际国内学术研讨会议，同国内外主要的术语学组织和专家建立了密切联系。

“十四五”期间，全国科技名词委将以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导，把握新发展阶段，贯彻新发展理念，构建新发展格局。按照“面向世界科技前沿、面向经济主战场、面向国家重大需求、面向人民生命健康”的战略方向，坚定依靠广大专家、学者，努力奋进，实现科学技术名词规范化事业高质量发展。

Brief Introduction

China National Committee for Terminology in Science and Technology (CNTERM, originally China National Committee for Terms in Natural Sciences) was established in 1985 upon the approval of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. It is the organization authorized by the State Council to examine, approve and promulgate the scientific and technological terms on behalf of the Chinese government. The State Council prescribed in 1987 that the scientific and technological terms examined and approved by CNTERM are authoritative and have a binding force in China. They should be observed and used by all organizations including scientific research units and educational institutions, production and administration sectors, news and publishing circles, etc. In order to implement the instructions of the State Council, four departments including the State Science and Technology Commission, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Education Commission and National Press and Publication Administration issued a joint statement in 1990. The statement puts forward three clear requirements: firstly, news agencies should publicize the importance of the unification of terms through various news media and take the lead to use the promulgated terms; secondly, each publishing organization should use the promulgated terms in their publications and literature, especially in their reference books. The usage of the promulgated terms will be one of the methods to evaluate the quality of books; thirdly, any kind of teaching materials to be edited and published in the future should use the promulgated terms. The release of these notifications has effectively promoted the popularization and application of the standard terms.

CNTERM is responsible for following affairs:

Formulating principles, policies, plans and programs about the work for scientific and technological terms in China;

Organizing the work of examination, approval, promulgation, coordination and promotion of scientific and technological terms on behalf of the Chinese government;   

Developing the exchanges, coordination and unification of scientific and technological terms used in Mainland and Taiwan of China and other Chinese-speaking regions; and

Organizing domestic and international academic communication in the field of scientific and technological terminology.

The work policy of CNTERM is relying on experts, appraising terms scientifically, and actively promoting scientific and technological innovation to accelerate economic and social development.

Academicians Qian Sanqiang, Lu Jiaxi, Lu Yongxiang and Bai Chunli had served as the chairman of CNTERM. Vice chairman and standing committee of CNTERM are experts and directors from the following departments including the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Ministry of Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Education, State Administration for Market Regulation, Chinese Association for Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academy of Military Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Language Working Committee. In addition, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly invited more than 140 famous scholars and experts in various fields to serve as committee members of CNTERM.

The General Office of CNTERM is its administrative body whose main task is to execute the resolutions of CNTERM, organize and carry out its program, examine and approve the terms and edit and publish them, to arrange and coordinate the work of various subcommittees, to edit and publish scientific and technological terms and publications, to promote domestic and international academic exchanges, to organize academic exchanges, promote scientific and technological term unification work in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, to carry out the standardization and promotion work of scientific and technological terms, to popularize science and handle daily affairs.

Since the establishment, CNTERM has always been highly valued by CPC and the country. Li Peng, Wan Li, Fang Yi, Zhang Jinfu, Qian Xuesen, Qian Weichang, Lu Jiaxi, Zhou Guangzhao, Song Jian, Xu Jialu, Lu Yongxiang and other national leaders not only gave instructions, delivered their congratulatory letters and inscriptions, but also offered guidance to CNTERM in related meetings several times. Yan Jici, Wu Jieping, Qian Weichang, Zhu Guangya, Song Jian, Xu Jialu, Han Qide and other scientists of the older generation have been serving as specially invited consultants to guide the work of CNTERM, which greatly encouraged experts and scholars to participate in the standardization activities of science and technological terms.

As of October 2021, CNTERM has established 133 terminology review committees in various fields of science and technology and has reviewed and published normative terms in more than 140 fields including astronomy, physics, biochemistry, electronics, agronomy, medicine, linguistics and education. These normative terms cover basic sciences, engineering and technical sciences, agricultural sciences, medicine, humanities and social sciences, military sciences and so on.

CNTERM has established Termonline, an authoritative terminology knowledge and service platform, which provides free web-based scientific and technological terminology query services to the society. Users of Termonline come from over 150 countries and regions. CNTERM developed diversified knowledge services featuring terminology mapping, terminology annotation and proofreading. And Termonline has become the world’s most comprehensive Chinese terminology platform with complete data, highest data quality and the most complete functions. Based on it, the Daily Scientific and Technological Term column was opened through Xuexi to popularize standardized scientific and technological terms for CPC members and the whole society. With the support of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, CNTERM continued to carry out further education and training for professional and technical personnel in press and publication circles and promoted the standardization of scientific and technological terms in publications. Furthermore, CNTERM actively supports the standardization of scientific and technological terms in ethnic areas.

CNTERM also actively and steadily promote cross-strait scientific and technological terminology exchange and unification. CNTERM has published cross-strait scientific and technological term-lists in nearly 30 disciplines. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, based on years of cross-strait exchanges and comparisons, CNTERM have completed the 10-volume Chinese Dictionary of Science and Technology, which, consisting of 550,000 terms, was compiled by Academician Lu Yongxiang as the honorary editor-in-chief, Academician Bai Chunli as the editor-in-chief and experts from both sides of the strait, Cross-Strait Science and Technology Common Dictionary, Cross-Strait Science and Technology Vocabulary for Primary and Secondary School Students and Handbook of Differences in Scientific and Technological Terms across the Strait, etc. All these works have greatly promoted cross-strait exchange and cooperation in science, education and culture.

CNTERM actively organizes theoretical research and promotes the construction of terminology as a discipline with Chinese characteristics. CNTERM has published Chinese Terminology Construction Book Series and China Scientific and Technological Term Standardization Theory Construction Book Series to cultivate and expand theoretical research teams. CNTERM also holds regular international and domestic academic seminars and established close relationship with major domestic and foreign terminology organizations and experts.

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, CNTERM will follow Xi Jinping’s Thoughts on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era to grasp the new development opportunity, implement the new development concept and build a new development pattern. In accordance with the strategic direction of "facing the frontiers of world science and technology, facing the main economic battlefield, facing the major needs of the country and attach great importance to people's life and health", CNTERM will forge ahead with its large number of experts and scholars to further achieve high-quality development concerning the course of standardization of scientific and technological terms.