Research On The Urban Community Residents' Participation Of The Popular Science Activities

As is known to all, the level of scientific literacy of the public, not only affects people's ability to achieve long-cherished wish for a better life,but also determines the success of the implementation of innovation-driven development strategy, determines the development of China's comprehensive national strength. Community Popular Science as the backbone of popularization of science, it takes an important role to improve the level of scientific literacy of the residents.At present, although the participation of community residents in science activities showed a strong willingness, the engagement is poor.Therefore, it is particularly important to study the participation of community science activities.On the basis of literature research, this paper starts from the view of participation,Hongshan District of Wuhan city community as the survey site. Combing questionnaire with face to face interviews to investigate the involvement of community residents from five dimensions: the breadth of participation, the frequency of participation, the depth of participation, the power source of participation, and the validity of participation. In addition, analysis the influence factors of involvement of community.Summarizing the rules and problems in residents involvement, the results of the study are as follows:(1)In demographic structure, the proportion of men and women to participate in community science activities are basically the same, most of them are at the age between36 to 55 and mainly are retirees, the proportion is 30%.(2)The way to get science information is mainly in community science bulletin board,the proportion is 66.1%, followed by the Internet, the proportion of 36.5%.(3)In the kinds of popular science activities, the most popular is that set interaction,entertainment and education in one of the "go to Science and Technology Museum tovisit", the proportion is 90.1%.(4)In the situation of involvement, at the participation frequency, residents mostly choose "once a month" and "over a long period of time", the mainly obstacle is that "free time is few" and "propaganda is not enough"; on the involvement of the time, the residents mostly chose "1-2 hour", the proportion was 43.5%, the proportion of investing time “3-4 hours” residents accounted for only 8 percent, "have no interest" and “have no enough time”is the direct cause of the further exploration of the residents.In the end, according to those results, this paper proposed strategies from the aspects of science facilities, science funding channels, popular science propaganda means,science activities, science talent cultivation to promote the participation of community science activities.