2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Over the past 70 years. With the strong support of the CPC and the central government, China has issued a series of policies on science popularization, which has initially formed a policy system covering the state, departments and local levels, effectively promoting the vigorous development of science popularization. This paper systematically sorts out the historical background, main types, main contents and implementation effects of China's science popularization policies over the past 70 years, and objectively describes the historical process of the change of China's science popularization policy system. This paper puts forward the prospect of China's science popularization policy system construction in the future from the aspects of further improving the science popularization policy system, enhancing the policy effect, strengthening the mechanism construction, innovating the legal system construction, and so on. Furthermore, it provides policy basis and decision-making reference for the further leap-forward development of science popularization in the new era.

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