Upon the historical new era, this paper reviews the developmental history of China's 30-year Civic Scientific Literacy, which can be summarized as the change from concept to index, from theory to practice, and from academics to policies. This paper also summarizes the practice of supervision and evaluation of China's 30-year Civic Scientific Literacy Survey, which experienced the changes from merely introducing the contents' translation version of other countries to truly understanding the contents, from studying related subjects to making policy as support, from following other countries to leading other countries through innovation. This paper strives to further clarify the historical mission and developmental direction of our Civic Scientific Literacy assessment so as to make its indicators to play an important role in building a strong country of science and technology. The China Civic Scientific Literacy indicators is expected to promote the scientific literacy of citizens and build a community of shared future for the whole world.

Civic Scientific Literacy  /  survey  /  indicators