According to previous research findings, this paper summarized the key characteristics of science popularization industry and represented its connotation and main categories. Afterwards, the author analyzed the main problems which hinder science popularization industry from efficient developing at the present stage and demonstrated the basic principles and master tasks to encourage science popularization industry development during the 12th Five-Year Plan. Accordingly, several countermeasures and advices were put forward at last.

Science museums take a very important position in scientific knowledge and scientific culture communication. As the demands of society and the public have been changing, the practice of science communication in science museums is also changing, including the fuzzification of boundary between the subject and object, the diversification of communication media using and so on. This paper tries to sort through the elements of communicating activities in science museums, analyzes the transition of the communication elements, and discusses the communication mode of science museums and their characteristics from the standpoint of evolvement of communication elements.

Based on the consideration of theory, practice and the demanding for the talents team for science popularization (TTSP) in the process of Chinese social and economic development, the authors argued that China should carry out the project of constructing the talents team for science popularization (PCTTSP), which includes: constructing a strong root TTSP through training and educating, which will serve for the root community and building the new countryside; rapidly developing the volunteers in TTSP; emphasizing on cultivating the qualified and specialized TTSP, that is, people who are professional staff working in the museums for science and technology popularization and communication, science writers, exhibition designers, personnel of research and development, media workers for science popularization and communication, managers of science popularization and communication enterprises, organizers and developers of science popularization activities, and other innovative TTSP.

The paper analyzes education mechanism at the present time and proposes the question about early talent training in high school in China according to “Qian Xuesen’s Question” discussed the early cultivating model and study task on science and techology innovational talent, and gives an example for the practice process in Beijing No. 35 high school.

Sciences concerning with natural history are relatively easy understood by ordinary people and related closely to daily lives of common people. It is reasonable to give priority to the propaganda and practice of natural history in leisure society. Civil organizations of natural history play an important role in science communication. The paper, according to several published papers, briefly introduces some organizations such as the Young Naturalists’ Society, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Isis Society in Dresden, the Portland Society of Natural History, the Boston Society of Natural History and the Sierra Club. It suggests that Chinese government support the self-organizing development of civic natural history groups.

This paper reviews the discussion of concepts of scientific literacy and science and technology education for adults. It also explores the concepts and contents of the informal science education in India and China. This article tries to analyze the potential effectiveness in both countries and make suggestions for the reformation of science education policies of for farmers in our country.

According to the management system, popular science periodicals in China can be divided into two kinds, local popular science periodicals and imported popular science periodicals. They have differences in image type. These differences affect the dissemination of scientific information. This paper takes Knowledge Is Power, Encyclopedic Knowledge, Universal Science, Newton Scientific World as examples to analyze the difference of information representation, information explanation and information supplement, all of these will be useful for the development of popular science periodicals.

The name of “Scientific Romance” (Ke Xue Xiao Shuo) was introduced into China from Japan in 20th century. Before the advent of the word “Science”, “Ge Zhi” basically referred to the meaning of science and technology. But there was “Scientific Romance”, almost no “Ge Zhi Novel”. By studying the origin of late Qing “Scientific Romance”, we can not only understand people’s opinions and expectations of “Scientific Romance”, but also restore the multi-faceted history, and thus have a more specific understanding of the situation of early Chinese Science Fiction.

Science popularization events haved played an important role in promoting Chinese people’s scientific literacy. An event of “2010 National Science Day in ” was evaluated as an example. The performance improvement and sustainability of science popularization events may depend on the evaluation of effectiveness partly.

This survey was conducted during the science popularization exhibition which was held in Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen Municipality and CAS to commemorate the World Environment Day of 2009. The results of 800 questionnaires showed that most visitors’ education background is at higher level, the participation of men and women is almost equal; most of them are between 21 and 30 years old. Nearly half of the visitors were active to understand knowledge about environmental protection, visitors were satisfied with the exhibition. It meeted the visitors’ need for both entertaining and learning. To carefully consider the exhibition’s theme, publicity, content, form and objects is the key issue to a good science popularization exhibition.

Arctic and Antarctic regions attract human beings for exploration, expedition and tourism owing to their inherent values in science, environment, aesthetics and wildness. This provides the best opportunities for polar science’s education and outreach. The objective, feature and concept of China’s polar education and outreach program were outlined and analyzed. The reviews on the key polar education and outreach projects during 2007-2008 International Polar Year was performed with perspective on their contents, organizations and achievements and contributions. Their features were very obvious: longtime-range, key theme, optimum resource integration, wider cooperation, great influence and significance. Meanwhile, some of new ideas or suggestions on China’s polar education and outreach in the future are addressed, with reference on the good practice.