Chinese society is undergoing transformation of the development pattern. To adapt to the new situation, adjustments of national development path, innovation elements and innovation strategy, position of public policy making, innovation culture construction and other aspects construct the current national development context. Based on judgments of new national development context, this paper makes an analysis of new requirements for science popularization work transformation: from four levels of science and technology open trend, transformation of public resources and market resources integration, rapid coverage of mobile Internet and information service industry, national demand for inclusive science and science popularization. Besides, following suggestions are put forward for transformation objectives of science popularization work: 1. start project concerning the national scientific literacy construction resource configuration from top design; 2. promote development of consumption science popularization industry; 3. Implement engineering of the national science popularization service open platform; 4. build service system and service pattern for “national innovation and business startups”.

Following the dynamic advancement of certain field is an important task for a researcher. This study compares and analyzes the conference papers in NARST 2014, ESERA 2013, ASERA 2014, as well as EASE 2013. The result shows that hot issues that researchers across different regions pay heed to are more or less the same. These hot issues deserve great attention from researchers in China.

The advent of mobile era leads to a revolutionary change in the mode of transmission of scientific knowledge. Effective science popularization should be based on context. It means that focus is placed on the perception of context and the adaptation of information. With the integration of Meyrowitz Theory, the paper firstly introduces four elements (space and environment, users’ real-timecondition, users’ life style and social atmosphere) of context, and secondly analyzes how to get adaptive context of science popularization, in a nutshell, some suggestions are proposed: the manifestation of science knowledge should be adaptive to the mobile context and the balance between standardization and individualization is necessary.

We measure and compare the main hot spots and research groups of images of scientists research literature both at home and abroad indexed by WOS and CNKI on the basic principles of Scientometrics by the way of keywords co-occurrence, author co-citation and research institutions and regional visualization analysis. The results indicate that hot topics of images of scientists abroad are more diversified and systematic, they pay more attention to “science”, core authors have been formed, and research institutions are mainly distributed in America; on the contrary, hot topics of images of scientists are not that diversified in China, core authors are still in the preliminary stage, and research institutions are mainly based in such cities as Beijing and Wuhan.

Through a survey of ten WeChat public platforms on scientific achievements in China, the paper summarizes four major characteristics of them, discusses two aspects of their influence, and finally puts forward four suggestions for their further improvement, namely, enriching the diversification of communication forms, expanding the scope of communication, subdividing diverse audiences, strengthening different supervisions, and fostering a favorable atmosphere for science popularization.

The dynamic change in total factor productivity of science popularization resources allocation is measured by using data such as the analytical method of Malmquist Index, it is based on the provincial panel data stemming from the science popularization statistical yearbook from 2006 to 2013. The results show that: from a perspective of the time series, the total factor productivity has increased by an average of 6.7 percent points, among which technical growth is 6.1 percent which acts as a primary promoting role; from the space sequence, science resource allocation in the Eastern, Central and Western parts of China gains a good efficiency, but the proportion of each type of the growth still remains unbalanced. In a nutshell, in order to promote the work of popular science in China, the paper proposes some ideas such as improving the quality of science personnel and government-led social donation etc.

An investigation was carried out on the status quo of science popularization informationizationin China from June. 2013 to Dec. 2014, and subsequently we compared the survey data with the survey results of Chinese citizens’ scientific literacy conducted in Nov, 2010 and Sept, 2015, that can help us clearly identify some main difficulties facing science popularization. The main findings are stated as follows: 1. The public demand for science popularization informatization has increased, the Internet has become the most preferred media channel among which web portals and mobile media has become the most favorable one; 2. TV media is still the most impressive and favorite way to obtain science information, but an overwhelming majority of programs lack accurate positioning and their contents and styles are basically the same; 3. Professional popular science books and periodicals is a way that the public trust most in terms of acquiring information on science and technology, but transmission channels still lack innovative elements; 4. A new type of media featuring mass participation and entertainment has become a new trend for science popularization informationization; 5. Most of the public think that science popularization informatization is doing well, but the development in this regard needs to be further improved, and what the public expect most is to make online sci-tech museum and traditional media forms as the ideal channels used for science popularization informationzation; 6. Science popularization informatization level of migrant workers is developing at a slower pace compared with other groups; 7. Weaker and not rigorous selecting criteria and a lack of interdisciplinary talents have truly hampered the development of science popularization informationization.

With the vigorous development of Science and Technology Museums in China, an increasing number of people find it easy to approach and understand science through visiting science museums and science centers. The philosophy of international science education is during the process of the transformation from scientific inquiry to scientific practices. Essentially, the source of science communication is from scientific research institutions and scientific community specializing in scientific practices. The Science and Technology Museums can play a great role in building a communication platform and bridge between the public and scientific community, the Open Research Laboratory in Europe and the Living Laboratory in USA are best practices in this respect. Inspired by this, STMs can construct scientific platforms on researching or spreading level through introducing scientific research projects into Science and Technology Museums, and provide opportunities to help the public be deeply involved in the activities of scientists’ practices on the basis of cooperation with professional scientific research institutions.

The paper reviews the origin of development of industrial popular science tourism in foreign countries, and analyzes the development status in China through industrial demonstration sites. Furthermore, the paper analyzes some problems in this regard, such as the unbalanced development effectiveness, the single variety of products, the weak performance of tourism awareness, the poor quality of services, and the outdated concept of development. The paper sums up a batch of successful experience concerning the development industrial popular science tourism in developed countries: Clear objectives, rich products, widely-distributed customers, flexible management, and attaching great importance to marketing strategy. Finally, combined with existing problems and the experience coming from developed countries, the paper provides references for the development of industrial popular science tourism in China, these are manifested in the following aspects: the balanced development effectiveness, the enriching structure of product varieties, the changing demand for tourism, the improvement of service quality, and trying hard to obtain support from the government.

This study aims to conduct a research on college students’ perception on nuclear power and attitudes toward it. Focus group discussions and questionnaires are employed to investigate students from ten universities in Guangzhou city, including their self-perception and real knowledge of nuclear power, attitudes toward it, and which form and channel they prefer to use to access information having to do with science popularization. Results reveal that College students have limited knowledge of nuclear power, but the majority of them have positive attitudes toward it. The most reliable information sources to them are experts in the field of nuclear power, research institutions and regulators. University students prefer to gain more information about safety of nuclear power through interesting documentary. Moreover, descriptive analysis, statistical comparison, explorative analysis and other methods are used to analyze differences in gender, major and region. Factors influencing students’ attitudes toward nuclear power are examined. Implications of study findings for future science popularization and energy decision-makers engagedin the task of transforming College students’ attitudes toward nuclearpower are also discussed.

As a significant organization for the sake of improving the interaction between scientists, media and public, science media center plays an increasingly crucial role in science communication and science popularization. Although Japan did not establish its science media center until 2010, SMCJ functions well in a timely and effective manner in Japan. Especially during the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, SMCJ’s efforts and actions drew widespread attention. The paper analyzes its measures, influence and operation mechanism by collecting data about SMCJ’s reactions in Fukushima nuclear accident.

Generally speaking, It was not until Chinese society came to modern times that there have been a scientific popularization activities, Popular Science Writing would not be earlier than that time. Therefore, it was thought that the Medical Trimetrical Classic be out off popular science work, when published in 1804. However, according to the definition of the modern science popular work, we think the Medical Trimetrical Classic should be a reality of science popular work, because of the creation’s aim, the content’s characteristic, the popular range, as well as the value to promote Traditional Chinese Medicine. It will be helpful to study the popularization of Traditional Chinese Medicine in history by excavating its science popularization connotation.