In 2003, for in-depth the implementation of Law of the People's Republic of China on Popularization of Science and Technology, Wuhan started to launch the popular science volunteer organizations, according to the requirements of The Sixth Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology, “Widely organizing volunteers to the work of science popularization”. Since then, the popular science volunteer organizations have carried out various-forms and content-rich science popularization volunteer service activities. At the same time, there are some problems existing in the team constructing, operation mechanism and social impacts. Through questionnaires and other ways, this article analyzes the situation, problems and reasons of structure, operating mechanism, social impact of the popular science volunteer organizations in Wuhan. On the basis of the survey, this article proposed some countermeasures to develop popular science volunteer organizations in Wuhan and provide some reference for the building up of popular science volunteer organizations.

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