Research on Public Attitude Towards Social Impact Assessment of Chang E Lunar Probe Program

For a long time, china evaluates engineering’s or project’s impacts mainly by assessing its economic contribution, always lack of social impacts. This study chooses Chinese Chang E Lunar Probe Program and conducts a survey by using questionnaires about public’s attitude towards Chang E’s social impacts. The results suggest that public’s attitude towards high-tech and non-direct-interest engineering’s social impact consists of military impact factor, political and economic impact factor, psycho-social impact factor and educational impact factor. Furthermore, public’s attitude towards Chang E’s social impact is related to age, and female’s attitude prone to be more positive than male’s, while the people with PhD degree look down upon it, it is not influenced by income at the same time.