Good governance in the digital society requires the enhancement of citizens’ digital literacy and skills, a re-examination of citizens’ data rights in the “big data era” and a restructuring of the digital ethical order in the digital society. Digital literacy and skills are intrinsic requirements for citizens’ digital survival in a digital society. At present, the world is facing a serious “digital divide”, and the average level of digital literacy among citizens in China is not high, so it is necessary to strengthen popular education and publicity in the future to steadily improve digital literacy and skills of all citizens in China. Citizens are deeply embedded in the production process of “big data”, and the transfer of rights has become a source of risk, and “data hegemony” has become a serious challenge to citizens’ data rights, and it is necessary to continuously protect citizens’ data rights through the enlightenment of ideas and the creation of institutions in the future. The healthy development and sound governance of the digital society require a rethinking of traditional social values and norms of behavior, and the establishment of a governance mechanism and system that includes the participation of multiple actors to jointly shape a new ethical order for digital technology.

At present, the worldwide digital literacy and skill assessment are mainly in the field of research, education, and skill certification, while a wider range of citizens’ digital literacy and skill assessment has become a trend and practical need. Based on the typical analysis of the EU Digital Competence Framework and its assessment practice, this paper puts forward some suggestions on the assessment of Chinese citizens’ digital literacy and skills: We should strengthen the basic research on digital literacy and skills to build a robust and scalable assessment system, select appropriate assessment schemes to take into account domestic characteristics and international comparability, pay attention to the effective use of the assessment results to promote the overall improvement of digital literacy and skills of the whole people.

With the advent of the digital era, citizens can only meet the needs of daily study, work and life if they have certain digital literacy and skills. The research on digital literacy and skills framework started early, and the composition of digital competence areas has reached a certain degree of consensus; its evaluation index system and measurement method are the key and difficult points of the follow-up research. China’s booming digital economy and digital transformation put forward higher requirements for citizens’ digital literacy and also creates conditions for the research and construction of a new pattern index system adapted to national conditions. Based on the evaluation goal for promoting digital literacy and skills improvement of China’s huge population, the idea of “SPOON” on assessment is innovatively proposed. Model A.S.M. is constructed and an index system and assessment method based on national conditions and international comparison are interpreted in this paper, focusing on “promoting construction through evaluation”, “promoting use through evaluation”“promoting strength through evaluation” and bridging the digital divide to promote the all-round development and modernization of people and lay a solid foundation for Chinese path to modernization.

To solve the practical problem that the science popularization action of science and technology innovation main bodies is weak in the implementing and organizing system of science popularization in the whole society of China, the paper regarded science and technology innovation main bodies as the focus of high-level transformation of science popularization supply system in the new period. Based on the historical, theoretical and realistic logic analysis, the paper explained the basic meaning of strengthening science popularization supply of science and technology innovation subjects in the new period, and constructed a conceptual model of science popularization organization implementation with science and technology workers as the core, and analyzed its basic characteristics. At the same time, by fully drawing on the typical practices of relevant institutions of domestic and abroad, adhering to the general idea of continuing to strengthen policy guidance, we proposed to build a “three guarantees” comprehensive performance management system for knowledge producers, create an interest-driven mechanism for science popularization to help knowledge producers innovate and start businesses, and optimize online and offline science popularization communication networks according to the principle of party supervising propaganda, based on science popularization, we should explore academic exchanges and cooperation in the new era and other policy suggestions to guide the science popularization supply of science and technology innovation main bodies.

Since the pilots of the New Era Civilization Practice Center were organized in 2018, science & technology associations have become an important science popularization force for New Era Civilization Practice Center through extensive science and technology voluntary services. Actively exploring and summarizing the paths of science & technology associations to stimulate the science popularization work of New Era Civilization Practice Center is a significant content to promote the in-depth interaction and co-development of science popularization work between science & technology associations and New Era Civilization Practice Center. Based on the analysis of the internal logic and practical difficulties of science & technology associations participating in New Era Civilization Practice Center science popularization work, this paper suggests four important paths to provide reference for science & technology associations effectively participation in the science popularization work of New Era Civilization Practice Center through case studies: strengthen the team building, utilize the New Era Civilization Practice Center science popularization service platform, innovate the sinking mode of science & technology associations popularization resources, and improve the institution and mechanism construction.

Creative work is intrinsically coupled with the improvement of teenagers’ scientific literacy. Scientific literacy is an essential requirement for creative work, and creative work is an important way to improve scientific literacy. We should take measures to enhance teenagers’ ability to creative work, such as improving the quality of education, expanding the channels for the integration between industry and education, giving full play to the effect of innovation models, and create a social atmosphere of tolerance for failure.

The improvement of students’ scientific literacy is an important goal put forward by science education, socio-scientific issue teaching and learning is an effective strategy to comprehensively improve students’ scientific literacy. However, most of the current research focuses on the theoretical exploration stage, few teaching frameworks can systematically help teachers implement this multi-faceted teaching method. Taking Socio-scientific Issue and Model Based Learning (SIMBL) as an example, this study introduces six different components of the model, analyzes how the model can improve students’ scientific literacy and expounds on the general methods of social science issue teaching carried out by teachers inside and outside schools. The study suggests that teachers should pay attention to the choice of SSI themes when applying this teaching strategy and pay attention to their role positioning in the process of practical operation. This teaching strategy also shows great application advantages in extracurricular education.

The image of science and technology is an important part of the national identity of a country. A questionnaire survey targeted to the American public shows that China’s image of science and technology is superior to its national identity. It indicates a possibility and feasibility of construction of China’s image of science and technology and national identity through promotion of science communication worldwide. It is considered that in order to promote worldwide science communication to play a better role in the image shaping of China, it is necessary for stakeholders to fully realize the value of worldwide science communication, and strengthen efficient top level system design and arrangement, publicity of overseas media as well as cultivation of professional talents in this field.

The Chinese Scientist Spirit was nurtured in China’s 100 years of scientific practice. With its spirit of “patriotism, innovation, realism, dedication and coordination”, it has become a strong driving force for China’s scientific and technological innovation and social development. In a century of change, the spirit of Chinese scientists is of great significance in promoting scientific dialogue and people-to-people exchanges in the world context. Based on China and looking at the world, it is imperative and promising to carry forward the spirit of scientists. Starting from the realistic logic, this paper, based ondemonstrating the necessity of carrying forward the spirit of scientists in the practice of international communication, analyzes the basic logic that the international communication of the spirit of scientists should follow, and puts forward the main topics and research directions of the international communication of the spirit of scientists.

Based on a scientific news article about the HPV vaccine on an official Chinese media website, this study designed an experiment on 336 women aged 18~26 to explore the effectiveness of science popularization under different framing (gain vs loss) and narrative types (plot-oriented vs character-oriented). This article found that when we use character-oriented narrative, the adoption of gain framing was more likely to increase the public’s perceived susceptibility to health beliefs, which in turn was to promote health behaviors. This study deepens our understanding of the effectiveness of science narrative on the HPV vaccine and provides insight into raising public health awareness in China.

Gao Shiqi, a famous science writer praised as “representative of science popularization” by Premier Zhou Enlai, began to enter the field of science writing by publishing his first scientific essay “The Clothing, Food, Shelter and Travel of Bacteria” in 1935. He used scientific essays as weapons to promote the spread of Marxism. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he focused on science popularization. On the basis of the comprehensive arrangement of Gao Shiqi’s manuscripts and the reading of a large number of relevant literature, this paper systematically summarizes Gao Shiqi’s theory of “making science popular” for the first time. It also gives feasible suggestions on how to carry forward the theory in the new era.

The nature study movement is an education reform and science popularization movement that emerged in the United States at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The advocates of this movement opposed the division of teaching, and advocated that children’s science education should “put down the textbooks and walk into nature”, believed that children should face scientific knowledge and the natural world as a whole, and tried to achieve the unity of children’s science popularization, humanistic education, and natural aesthetic education through the nature study. Although the nature study was gradually shelved due to lack of effectiveness, the teaching methods advocated by it, such as object teaching and outdoor practice, were preserved. In addition, the nature study focuses on establishing the emotional connection between children and nature, which is also in line with the current concept of green development in China. Reviewing the development process of nature study, combined with domestic research achievements in natural history, ecological linguistics and other fields, can provide some reference for the innovation of current children’s science popularization work.