Recently, Outline of the National Scheme for Scientific Literacy (2021–2035) has been issued. By analyzing the text of Outline of the National Scheme for Scientific Literacy (2021–2035), this paper finds out many new insights and solutions in the basic principles, goals, tasks, measures and policies regarding promoting public scientific literacy in China, while inheriting a lot from its predecessor and practical experiences in the past 15 years. It is stipulated that promoting public scientific literacy should take on a grand mission for the national economic and social development as well as global governance; it emphasizes the leadership for spirit and value at its top level design; it is more group-specific, has clearer tasks, and more precise measures in its promoting actions; it strengthens the foundation to transform scientific resources into popular scientific resources, and pays equal attention to normal and risk science communication in the infrastructure for public scientific literacy; it focuses on improvement of management mechanism, evaluation criteria and effectiveness.

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