Recent days witnessed the election of 2020 Guangdong Popular Works of Social Sciences was held by Guangdong Federation of Social Sciences. The work of Yang LIU (Center for Science and Human Imagination, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, SUSTech) Science Fiction-Imagination and Scientific Innovation Training Course for Kids was among the list.

Science Fiction series is the first science fiction textbook for students from primary school to senior high school in China. It is designed and compiled by the Research Center for Science. It aims to cultivate young people’s imagination and scientific innovation ability. The series is divided into primary, intermediate, and advanced level, in which the intermediate level course is all based on Yang LIU’s science fiction works. There are many creative thinking training modules which were designed by him and aim to inspire readers to think about the nature of science, the future of humankind, artificial intelligence and other fields, and establish a scientific cognitive mode.

The series was reported by many media after its publishment and had a wide influence. Introduced to the classrooms of many primary and secondary schools in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and other places, the work was widely welcomed by teachers and students.