The high-quality workers are the human capital which enables the rapid transformation of scientific and technological achievements. To understand the current scientific literacy of industrial workers of China, this study relied on the 12th National Civic Scientific Literacy Sampling Survey to analyze the scientific literacy and related factors of industrial workers. The results showed that the scientific literacy of industrial workers was higher than the overall national level, and there were differences between urban and rural areas. The scientific literacy increased sharply with the improvement of education and decreased with age; Industrial workers have a basic positive interest and attitude towards science and technology. The workers with high scientific literacy had a more positive attitude to support science and technology, a higher internal motivation to obtain scientific and technological information, and a more proactive search behavior to obtain scientific and technological information by the Internet. To enhance the scientific literacy of industrial workers, it was recommended to tilt the allocation of high-quality and diversified educational resources to solve the problem of imbalanced science literacy; to promote comprehensively vocational skills training, with a focus on competition to promote skill-learning; to promote the construction of scientific literacy through smart scientific popularization, and to advance science popularization and industrial information go hand in hand.

industrial workers  /  scientific literacy  /  attitude  /  interest