The rural area falls within one specific classification of the grassroots areas. A number of documents issued by the Central Committee of Chinese Communist Party highlight the issues having to do with agriculture，rural areas and farmers，this has set higher requirements for the improvement of scientific literacy for farmers，and provided policy basis for carrying out science popularization in the rural areas. The building of organization and personnel network is still imbalanced，which calls for strengthened efforts and further support. The development of science popularization facilities in the rural areas has improved significantly so far，however，the imbalanced development among various areas still remains. The featured science popularization training activities in the rural areas involve 3 types，respectively embodying the advantages of science popularization to a certain extent，there remains some room for its further improvement. Under the current times，scientific literacy for the farmers in China is still lingering at the lower level，science popularization shall be conducted according to the feature of the rural popularization，through which their requirements for life and production can be satisfied. Science popularization towards the rural areas in the future will be better in line with the trend of modern agriculture development and informationization，contributing to the ever increasing level of scientific literacy for the farmers.