Popular science magazine is a publication devoted to promoting and popularizing scientific knowledge. As an important part of popular science in China, popular science periodicals are an important force that can not be ignored to stimulate scientific interest, popularize scientific knowledge, advocate scientific methods, spread scientific ideas, and carry forward scientific spirit and scientific ethics. Popular science periodicals can cultivate the public's academic consciousness and lay the foundation for the development of scientific and technological innovation.

Popular science magazines have many functions in popularizing scientific knowledge, such as:

-Help the public understand the scientific and technological connotation behind national strategies such as innovation-driven development, poverty alleviation, rural revitalization, western development, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area construction;

—— guiding young people to participate in the national summer school for science education and offering science courses, which strongly supports the increase of science education in the "double reduction" of education;

-Respond to the public in a timely manner around hot issues such as food security, earthquake prevention and disaster reduction, SARS and COVID-19 epidemic, climate change, carbon neutrality, and serve to improve the scientific quality of the whole people.