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.

The development of science popularization is a requirement for achieving and supporting the Chinese path to modernization. The development course of science popularization is also tied to the modernization of science popularization, which is a key component of the Chinese path to modernization. This paper systematically analyzed the historical and theoretical logics behind the modernization of science popularization. In addition, it proposed suggestions to building national science popularization capabilities, enhancing the foundation for high level self-reliance and strength in science and technology, enriching people’s cultural experience, and empowering people’s will to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Suggestions on Facilitating the Popularization of Science and Technology in the New Era is of great strategic significance in promoting the innovative development of science popularization in the new era. Six authors interpret the new direction, new ideas, and new measures proposed in the Suggestion from five aspects. It is expected that these interpretations will promote the Suggestion’s implementation in society.