There are two obvious barriers in the implementation process of astronomical education and public outreach in China. One is the lack of astronomy teachers and public outreach educators. The other is that the material of astronomical education are not rich enough and mostly outdated. Using internet and big data technology, astronomers and science educators are trying to break these barriers. The concept of a World-Wide Telescope was first mentioned in an article published on Science (2001) and the authors proposed the goal of making the internet act as the world’s best telescope. In 2008 Microsoft Research launched the astronomical data visualization platform named WorldWide Telecope (WWT) and made it open-sourced in 2015. In China, the Chinese Virtual Observatory (China-VO) takes the leading role of the development and the promotion of WWT platform. By the end of 2019, 11 WWT teacher training workshops had been held and three national WWT tour contests had been organised. Over 500 science educators and public outreach practitioners participated in these programmes. In 2018, the fully localised and function-enhanced China-VO WWT was launched and tons of new astronomical data were added in 2019. It is now widely acclaimed in the Chinese science education community whether in big cities or rural areas. With massive astronomical data and the unique tour production function design, WWT becomes an ideal platform for astronomy education. To some extent, it breaks the barriers of traditional science (especially astronomy, physics and geography) education.

Astronomy education and public outreach (EPO) is one of the important part of the future development of astronomy. During the past few years, as the rapid evolution of Internet and the continuous change of policy, the breeding environment of science EPO keep improving and the number of related projects show a booming trend. EPO is no longer just a matter of to teachers and science educators but also attracted the attention of professional astronomers. Among all activates of astronomy EPO, the data driven astronomy education and public outreach (abbreviated as DAEPO) is special and important. It benefits from the development of Big Data and Internet technology and is full of flexibility and diversity. We will present the history, definition, best practices and prospective development of DAEPO for better understanding this active field.

Astronomy cloud computing environment is a cyber-Infrastructure for Astronomy Research initiated by Chinese Virtual Observatory (China-VO) under funding support from NDRC (National Development and Reform commission) and CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences). Based on virtualization technology, astronomy cloud computing environment was designed and implemented by China-VO team. It consists of five distributed nodes across the mainland of China. Astronomer can get compuitng and storage resource in this cloud computing environment. Through this environments, astronomer can easily search and analyze astronomical data collected by different telescopes and data centers , and avoid the large scale dataset transportation.