The Relationship Between Low Public Scientific Literacy In China And Science Communication

This paper analyzes the relationship between the low public scientific literacy and science communication in China. The main factors which are involved are communicators, the content of communication, the medium between the communication and acceptors. It also notes that the only way to raise the public scientific literacy is to improve scientific edueation.The first part of the paper defines the concept of public scientific literacy. It also illustrates real situation of the low public scientific literacy in China from several aspects, such as the levels of the public understandings on the scientific terms, scientific viewpoints, scientific methods, and the relations between science and society. The level of the publie scientific literacy in China is in a backward situation, comparing with that in the developed countries.The second part defines the concept or term of science communication. It also studies the relationship between the low public scientific literacy and the science communication in China. It talks about the function and significance of the science communication in cultivating and improving the public (?)ientifie literacy in China. It believes that the wide and effective science communication is beneficial to change the situation of the imbalance in the social distribution of scientific knowledge, and to meet the diverse needs of the public to scientific knowledge, in order to distribute the resource of knowledge efficiently and make use it to the maximum, and to improve the level of the public scientific literacy.The third part is the major one. This part analyzes and reveals the reasons...