In comparison with activities and projects of science popularization, science education and job trainings before, the “Outline of National Action Scheme of Scientific Literacy for All Chinese Citizens” is characterized with new ideas and plans in many aspects. They are: orienting scientific literacy building to a fundamentally social engineering to break through the bottleneck in population quality; giving a new definition of the concept of “scientific literacy”; making the policy of government as leadership, public as participants to promote scientific literacy; setting short-term, mid-term, and long-term goals; planning four sub-projects in accordance with four different social groups; designing four fundamental building engineering in “hardware” and three effective measures to guarantee the implementation of the scheme; mapping out the network, which consists of the systems of organization and evaluation, to guide and control the process in the implementation of the scheme.

scientific literacy  /  national action scheme