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With the aim of examining the digital medialiteracy of primary school students, a perceived digitalmedia literacy of primary student scale was developed. Acluster sampling was conducted, and 796 primary studentsin Beijing took part in this study. Results indicated that theinstrument demonstrated good reliability and validity. Theparticipants (the 5th and 6th grade primary students)reported rather a high level of critical understanding andtechnical skills. Regarding digital media literacy, althoughsignificant differences appeared within different grades andage groups, there was no significant difference betweenfemale and male students. Moreover, primary students’digital media literacy was significantly influenced by stu-dents’ digital media experience and parental mediation.The implications regarding the findings of the digital medialiteracy of primary students were discussed