In essence, the popularization of science is a kind of social education. As a social education, it is different from both school education and vocational education, and its basic characteristics are sociality, mass and continuity. The characteristics of popular science show that the work of popular science must use socialized, popular and regular popular science methods, make full use of various circulation channels and information media in modern society, and lose no time in infiltrating into various social activities to form large-scale, dynamic and socialized popular science.
Since the founding of New China, the China government has always attached great importance to popular science work. In the early days of the founding of New China, the Science and Technology Popularization Bureau was established in the Ministry of Culture of the Central People's Government, which was responsible for leading and managing the national science popularization work. Since then, various departments and localities have set up specialized science popularization management institutions. The government has invested a lot of money to build a number of national-level popular science venues. There are special funds for popular science to support popular science activities from the central government to the local government. Science popularization funds in China are mainly allocated by the government. All walks of life, including science and technology, media publishing, urban communities, enterprises and so on. , are actively involved in popular science work.
In June, 2002, China promulgated the Law on Popularization of Science and Technology in People's Republic of China (PRC), which is the first science popularization in the world.
In 2006, the State Council promulgated the Outline of the Action Plan for National Scientific Literacy.
In 2009, Nanjing promulgated the Regulations on Science and Technology Popularization in Nanjing.
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