The popular science education in China should rely on the official power. Popular science education refers to science popularization education. Official power refers to groups or organizations specially established or funded by the government, such as science and technology bureaus at all levels, China Association for Science and Technology at all levels, and local science and technology museums. We believe that the more important criterion is which can better disseminate correct scientific knowledge, so as to improve the scientific knowledge level of the people. We will demonstrate from the following three aspects.

The authenticity of official power can be more guaranteed. With the rapid development of the times, the official forces can better grasp the latest research results. Because of the inheritance of the system, the government has an advantage in the reserve of popular science knowledge. Folk forces are mixed, and there are many popular science people and popular science videos that they have not fully understood.

The purpose of popular science education of official forces is to convey correct scientific knowledge to the people and make the scientific knowledge of the whole country reach a certain level, so from the starting point, official forces will also provide more real content. However, non-governmental forces have their profit-seeking nature. They want to gain exposure and attention, which sometimes leads to content distortion or even complete error. For example, in Tik Tok, many popular science marketing numbers are full of mistakes, and the authenticity is difficult to guarantee.