世纪之交，在京举行的2000年国际科普论坛是一次规模宏大的千年盛会。在会场内外，围绕究竟是“科普”还是“科学传播”有一场不大不小的争议。北京大学哲学系年仅三十多岁的博士生导师吴国盛教授，在国内较早提出要以“科学传播”概念取代“科学普及”的传统提法。我们就从这 At the turn of the century, the 2000 International Popular Science Forum held in Beijing is a grand millennium event. Inside and outside the venue, there is a real controversy around whether “science popularization” or “science communication” should be held. Professor Wu Guosheng, a doctoral tutor in his thirties at the Department of Philosophy in Peking University, earlier proposed in the country to replace the traditional formulation of “science popularization” with the concept of “science communication.” We are from this