Civic scientific literacy has a great bearing of the sustainable socioeconomic development and the building of an innovation-oriented country.An objective evaluation system is needed for updating the data on civic scientific literacy in China in a timely manner.Jon Miller’s measurement is the mainstream theory of civic scientific literacy and is widely adopted around the world.Due to the different social circumstances and concepts of scientific literacy in different countries，experts and scholars have been revising Miller’s measurement.Since the 1990s，the Chinese scholars have been following the “National Scientific Literacy Action Plan” to carry out localized research and practice based on Miller’s measurement indicators.