Abstract:Policy entrepreneurs are those individuals or groups that have a strong spirit of innovation, are willing to invest personal resources and are good at using organizational resources to provide solutions and recommendations for policy issues. Policy entrepreneur research has become the focus of academic circles. As one of the important motivations of public policy change, policy entrepreneurs play an important role in the policy changes in basic research in China. They actively promote basic research policy changes by innovating policy ideas, defining and construct policy issues, driving policy agenda and evaluating the processes and effects of policy implementation. When Policy entrepreneurs push on the policy change of basic research, they exploit individual superior resources, lead policy trials, submit bills to the authorities, send letters to the decision-making level of the government directly and take advantage of pressure from public opinion.