科学素养是人的素质的一个重要方面。国际上对科学素养的研究从70年代就开始了。许多发达国家把提高本国公众的科学素养看成是保持国家经济持续增长的主要因素和未来世纪竞争的关键。上海市科协从1991年起成立了上海公众科学素养调查组,每两年对上海公众进行科学素养调查。已进行了三次,收集了数十万个数据,建立了上海公众科 Scientific literacy is an important aspect of human qualities. The international research on scientific literacy began in the 1970s. Many developed countries view the improvement of the scientific literacy of their own people as the key factor in maintaining a sustained national economic growth and in the competition in the coming century. Shanghai Association for Science and Technology has set up the Shanghai Public Scientific Literacy Investigation Team since 1991, conducting a survey on the scientific literacy of the Shanghai public every two years. Has been conducted three times, collected hundreds of thousands of data, the establishment of Shanghai Public Section