Combined with the practice of the construction of China Digital Science and Technology Museum, this paper discusses the definition of science popularization on the internet as well as its features, characteristics, progress and some common issues, and then suggests that the construction of science popularization on the internet should strengthen the quality control, originality, information update, the awareness of copyright protection, technological innovation and so on.

As the transmission chain of usual communication mode is too long to form a faster or more effectual feedback, it lacks of the intimacy and achievement of communication, and then makes it difficult to arouse public's interest of learning. The success of the communication mode of Capital Science Lecture owes to its “core power”——live activities with equal communication, and through which the public can tap their own initiative and accept the science during the communication, dialogue and exchange. In the end, this new mode will form a mutually causal relationship: the understanding promotes the acceptance as the acceptance has deepened the understanding to form a good social effect with the peripheral “factors”.

In order to put into practice the preferential tax that the publications for science popularization have enjoyed, identified institution of the publications for science popularization have been practiced initially in China. However, there are still some limitations in the system. The idea of the identified system design, the identified range definition, the identified standards for establishment, the identified subjectivity setting and the identified procedures should be improved.

The participation of science communication of scientist communities plays a crucial role in the advancement of science for publics at large. The state issued a number of policies to encourage scientists to communicate science to citizens. But the opinions of scientists on science communication and their attitudes towards it is still unknown. The author interviewed some 20 local scientists in the past few months. This article is the result of the face-to-face interviews with the Chinese scientists on their opinions on the science communication. It is found the interviewees were not supportive to the possible policies as science communication as a part of the scientific activities, neither did they show interest in beneficial spurs to themselves. The managers of the science institution's attitudes towards science communication placed a pressure on scientists with the tasks of the scientific activities, but they denied the existance of the pressure.

Science popularization exhibitions are an essential part of spiritual and cultural life of people in present time. Botanic Gardens use rich collections of living plants as exhibition materials to transmit knowledge of plants to the public and carry out environmental education activities, which can help visitors to understand the dependence of man on nature. This paper describes the processes of planning and executing an outstanding science popularization exhibition in botanic gardens and could be of reference value for those undertaking similar projects.

The overflow of mysticism in Russia has some deep social and historical reasons and which generates a wide range of social impact. By analyzing the phenomenon of the mysticism in Russia, this paper concludes that its overflow was mainly due to the fall of reason, the support of government and the boosting of media. The overflow of mysticism had affected the process of the disintegration of the former Soviet Union to some extent, and influenced a generation of young people.

Scientific culture in South Korea, which is equivalent to science popularization in China, has gone through three stages. Based on the discussion of the evolution of the three stages, the author summarizes the characteristics of each stage. All the findings and conclusions might be considered valuable and helpful for the science popularization in China.

Farming and Weaving Pictures illustrated with verse is a traditional series of pictures on agriculture in the history of China. It was used for agricultural technology communication and agricultural civilization communication as well. There appeared a variety of forms when Farming and Weaving Pictures was dispersed among people, and New Year Paintings was one important form among them. Farming and Weaving Pictures conveyed traditional aesthetic view of technology and ideology, suggested the orthodox social value, and maintained traditional society-technology system.