From the perspective of sociology of science, the popularization of science is a universal social phenomenon, which inevitably has its own "growing point". The growing point of popular science lies in the intersection of nature and man, science and society. In other words, the interaction between natural science and human society has produced scientific popularization, and science and technology and society, as the "soil" of scientific popularization, have nurtured its growth.
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Since the founding of New China, the China government has always attached great importance to popular science work. In the early days of the founding of New China, the Science and Technology Popularization Bureau was established in the Ministry of Culture of the Central People's Government, which was responsible for leading and managing the national science popularization work. Since then, various departments and localities have set up specialized science popularization management institutions.
The government has invested a lot of money to build a number of national-level popular science venues. There are special funds for popular science to support popular science activities from the central government to the local government. Science popularization funds in China are mainly allocated by the government. All walks of life, including science and technology, media publishing, urban communities, enterprises and so on. , are actively involved in popular science work.
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