To some extent, officials' level of understanding modern science and technology could have influence on their decision-making process. Therefore, officials have been one of the most important groups of audiences of science popularization. However, as it is difficult to arrange the schedule, the scale of science popularization activities targeting officials is usually small. But “The Series of 100 Lectures Given by 100 CAS Members” in 1996, which was organized by China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) was a big activity. This paper investigated the historical process of the activity in order to make suggestions to the future science popularization activities.

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