Gao Shiqi, a famous science writer praised as “representative of science popularization” by Premier Zhou Enlai, began to enter the field of science writing by publishing his first scientific essay “The Clothing, Food, Shelter and Travel of Bacteria” in 1935. He used scientific essays as weapons to promote the spread of Marxism. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he focused on science popularization. On the basis of the comprehensive arrangement of Gao Shiqi’s manuscripts and the reading of a large number of relevant literature, this paper systematically summarizes Gao Shiqi’s theory of “making science popular” for the first time. It also gives feasible suggestions on how to carry forward the theory in the new era.

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