Meaning: to become common practice

Original: 坚持培育创新文化，传承中华优秀传统文化的创新基因，营造鼓励探索、宽容失败的良好环境，使崇尚科学、追求创新在全社会蔚然成风。

Background: On June 24, 2024, Xi Jinping gave a speech at the National Science and Technology Conference on the importance of innovation for China across all sectors, highlighting recent “wins” such as the 6G satellite launched in February.

Usage: 蔚然成风 is used to describe something transiting to the mainstream. Topics such as language learning, docuseries, to educational policy, can all be described as “commonplace” using this metaphor.

Source: 在全国科技大会、国家科学技术奖励大会、两院院士大会上的讲话