Xi's 6-Point Agenda for China's Science & Technology Advancement
Let’s begin with Xi Jinping’s speech at the joint national science and technology award conference, the general assemblies of the members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and the 11th national congress of the China Association for Science and Technology.
Before I get to the speech, the event saw two veteran scientists win China’s top sci-tech award for their contributions to the fields of lithium batteries and radar technology, respectively. These were Chen Liquan, 86, a researcher at the Institute of Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and Ben De, 88, a researcher at the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation and also a CAE academician. In all 258 projects and 11 experts were honoured for scientific and technological achievements. Nine foreign experts were also presented with the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.
Since the 18th Party Congress, the Party Central Committee has placed scientific and technological innovation in a prominent position in China’s modernization drive. It has systematically mapped out the blueprint for building a strong country in science and technology, vigorously implemented the innovation-driven development strategy, comprehensively deepened reform of the science and technology system, and promoted historic achievements and historic transformations in China’s scientific and technological undertakings. China is rapidly transforming from a participant in and contributor to global science and technology into a pioneer and leader, becoming one of the countries with the fastest-rising innovation capacity. 党的十八大以来，党中央把科技创新摆在现代化建设突出位置，系统擘画科技强国建设蓝图，深入推动实施创新驱动发展战略，全面深化科技体制改革，推动科技事业取得历史性成就、发生历史性变革。我国正从全球科技参与者、贡献者向开拓者、引领者加速转变，成为创新力上升最快的国家之一.
Since the National Science and Technology Conference of June 2024, China’s scientific endeavours have achieved a further series of new accomplishments. For example, major original results keep emerging in fields such as AI, quantum science and technology, life sciences, and the physical sciences; Chang’e-6 mission accomplished humanity’s first-ever return of samples from the far side of the Moon; Scientific and technological breakthroughs and industrial development in areas such as intelligent robots and drones have produced numerous highlights; innovative drugs have leapt from imitation and follow-on development to first-in-class creation; domestically bred crop varieties now cover more than 95% of planted area; and so on. These achievements reflect the rapid, day-by-day advance of China’s science and technology, inspiring and a source of pride! 2024年6月全国科技大会之后，我国科技事业又取得一系列新成就。比如，人工智能、量子科技、生命科学、物质科学等领域重大原创成果不断涌现，“嫦娥六号”实现人类首次月球背面采样返回，智能机器人、无人机等科技攻关和产业发展亮点纷呈，创新药物实现从模仿、跟进开发到首创的跨越，农作物自主选育品种面积超过95%，等等。这些成就反映出我国科技进步日新月异，令人鼓舞和自豪!
At the same time, we must soberly recognise that China’s scientific development still faces problems such as insufficient original innovation capacity in some fields, an inadequately structured talent pool, and low efficiency of science and technology investment. In addition, science and technology work also has some sticking points and blockages in terms of thinking and understanding and in terms of institutions and mechanisms. We must attach great importance to these and adopt more forceful measures to resolve them. 同时，要清醒地看到，我国科技发展中还存在一些领域原始创新能力不足、人才队伍结构不够合理、科技投入效能不高等问题，科技工作在思想认识、体制机制等方面也有一些卡点堵点。我们要高度重视，采取更加有力的措施加以解决.
Scientific and technological innovation is the inexhaustible driving force of human civilisation’s progress. The new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is profoundly changing humanity’s modes of production and life and the world’s development pattern; scientific and technological strength and innovation capacity are increasingly becoming the core competitiveness of nations. At present, AI is flourishing. Taking data, computing power, algorithms, and the like as key elements; taking theoretical breakthroughs and interdisciplinary convergence in neuroscience, cognitive science, computational science, mathematics, and other fields as its foundation; and taking collective breakthroughs in frontier intelligent technologies and their broad penetration and empowerment as its hallmark, it exhibits such notable characteristics as data-driven development, the interconnection of all things, human-machine collaboration, and cross-domain integration. The situation both inspires and presses upon us. We must seize the historic opportunity, meet the challenges of the era, accelerate the advance of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, march firmly toward the goal of building China into a science and technology power by 2035, and solidly support and lead Chinese-style modernisation with scientific and technological innovation. 科技创新是人类文明进步的不竭动力，新一轮科技革命和产业变革深刻改变人类生产生活方式和世界发展格局，科技实力和创新能力越来越成为国家的核心竞争力。当前，人工智能蓬勃兴起，以数据、算力、算法等为关键要素，以神经科学、认知科学、计算科学、数学等理论突破和学科交叉为基础，以智能前沿技术群体性突破和广泛渗透赋能为标志，呈现数据驱动、万物互联、人机协同、跨界融合等显著特征。形势催人，也逼人。我们必须抓住历史机遇，迎接时代挑战，加快推进高水平科技自立自强，向着到2035年建成科技强国的目标坚定迈进，扎扎实实以科技创新支撑和引领中国式现代化.
The 15th Five-Year Plan period is the crucial period of assault in building a science and technology power. We must go all out to implement the Party Central Committee’s various arrangements for scientific endeavours. Here, I wish to emphasise six points. “十五五”时期是科技强国建设的关键攻坚期，要全力抓好党中央关于科技事业各项部署的落实。这里，我强调6点.
“First, enhance the capacity for systematic scientific and technological research and innovation. Scientific and technological innovation involves many fields, actors, and elements; it is a vast system. In recent years, we have brought into play the advantages of the new nationwide system, consolidated resources and strengths, and accumulated substantial experience in systematic problem-solving. We must adhere to the strategic orientation of the Four Orientations, further strengthen overall coordination in areas such as science and technology strategic planning, policy measures, major tasks, research forces, resource platforms, and regional innovation, so as to raise the level of organization in scientific and technological research and improve the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system. 第一，增强科技创新体系化攻关能力。科技创新涉及领域、主体、要素多，是一个庞大的系统。这些年，我们发挥新型举国体制优势，整合资源力量，在体系化攻关上积累了不少经验。要坚持“四个面向”战略导向，进一步加强科技战略规划、政策措施、重大任务、科研力量、资源平台、区域创新等方面统筹，提高科技攻关组织化程度，提升国家创新体系整体效能.
In advancing research tasks, the priority is to improve the mechanisms for the deployment, organization, and implementation of major national science and technology innovation tasks. Focusing on frontier fields such as AI, quantum technology, and life sciences; key fields such as integrated circuits and advanced manufacturing; and strategic domains such as the deep sea, deep space, and deep earth, we must make integrated arrangements for major engineering programs and major projects, while coordinating the advancement of original innovation and research on key core technologies. We must make forward-looking arrangements for the construction of major science and technology infrastructure, strengthen the independent, self-reliant guarantee of basic supporting conditions such as high-end scientific instruments, scientific data, and scientific journals, and advance the empowerment of scientific research through AI. 在科研任务推进上，重点要完善国家重大科技创新任务部署和组织实施机制，聚焦人工智能、量子科技、生命科学等前沿领域，集成电路、先进制造等重点领域，深海、深空、深地等战略领域，一体部署重大工程和重大项目，统筹推进原始创新和关键核心技术攻关。要前瞻布局建设重大科技基础设施，强化高端科研仪器、科学数据、科技期刊等基础条件自主保障，推进人工智能赋能科学研究.
In building science and technology forces, the priority is to optimise the functional positioning and layout of the national strategic science and technology forces, promoting coordination of tasks, sharing of resources, and complementarity of strengths, so that they may better shoulder national strategic missions and produce more major strategic results. We must support cooperation between the national strategic scientific and technological forces and other scientific and technological forces in conducting joint research, coordinate the allocation of research tasks, platforms and bases, and key talent, and form a systematic research framework covering basic research, applied development, and transformation of research results. 在科技力量建设上，重点要优化国家战略科技力量功能定位和布局，推动任务协同、资源共享、优势互补，使其更好担当国家战略使命、产出更多重大战略成果。要支持国家战略科技力量与其他科技力量合作攻关，统筹配置科研任务、平台基地、关键人才，形成覆盖基础研究、应用开发、成果转化的体系化攻关格局.
In terms of linking up scientific and technological innovation efforts, the priority is to strengthen overall guidance of science and technology work at every level, form institutional arrangements for central-local coordination and inter-regional linkage, coordinate the development of international science and technology innovation centers and regional science and technology innovation centers, and strengthen regional collaborative innovation. Conditions vary from region to region, so each must explore innovation development paths suited to local conditions, establish its comparative advantages, and build distinctive innovation highlands; one must not blindly follow trends and chase hot topics, or engage in ‘involution-style’ competition and homogenised development. 在科技创新联动上，重点要加强对各层级科技工作的统筹指导，形成央地协同、区域联动的制度安排，统筹建设国际科技创新中心和区域科技创新中心，强化区域协同创新。各地区情况不同，要因地制宜探索创新发展路径，确立比较优势，打造特色创新高地，不能盲目跟风追热点，搞“内卷式”竞争、同质化发展.
Second, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation. This is the key to using high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening to lead the development of new-quality productive forces. We must give prominence to both the supply of scientific and technological innovation and the pull of industrial demand, promote integrated innovation across industry, academia, and research, and open up the channels through which science and technology are accelerated into transformation as real productive forces. Scientific and technological innovation must emphasise an application-oriented approach, supporting universities and research institutes in pairing with enterprises to carry out scientific research breakthroughs and talent cultivation, thereby empowering industrial innovation with high-quality science and technology supply. Industrial innovation must pose scientific questions, strengthen the principal position of enterprises in innovation, and support enterprises in jointly building platforms and jointly overcoming difficult problems with universities and research institutes, using the demands of high-end, green, and intelligent industry to pull scientific and technological innovation forward. 第二，推动科技创新和产业创新深度融合。这是以高水平科技自立自强引领发展新质生产力的关键。要突出科技创新供给和产业需求牵引，推动产学研融通创新，打通科技加速向现实生产力转化的通道。科技创新要突出应用导向，支持高校、科研院所对接企业开展科研攻关和人才培养，以高质量科技供给赋能产业创新。产业创新要提出科学问题，强化企业创新主体地位，支持企业与高校、科研院所共建平台、共克难题，以高端化、绿色化、智能化产业需求牵引科技创新.
The low transformation rate of scientific and technological achievements has long been a prominent problem we face. We must strengthen the building of the national technology transfer system, lay out and establish a batch of proof-of-concept centers and pilot-scale testing platforms, and break the bottlenecks constraining the transformation of early-stage scientific and technological achievements. We must create diversified application scenarios and high-level industrial clusters, and comprehensively employ fiscal, monetary, science and technology, and industrial policies to promote the spread, application, and iterative upgrading of independently developed technologies and products. We must improve the intellectual property protection system and break down the barriers to the flow of innovation factors among universities, research institutes, and enterprises. We must construct a science and technology finance system suited to scientific and technological innovation, promote the healthy and stable development of the venture capital market, smooth enterprises’ channels for investment and financing, and guide financial capital to invest early, invest in small enterprises, invest for the long term, and invest in hard technologies. 科技成果转化率不高，一直是我们面临的一个突出问题。要加强国家技术转移体系建设，布局建立一批概念验证中心和中试平台，破解制约早期科技成果转化的瓶颈。打造多元化应用场景和高水平产业集群，综合运用财政、货币、科技、产业政策，促进自主研发技术产品推广应用和迭代升级。要完善知识产权保护制度，打破高校、科研院所、企业之间创新要素的流动壁垒。要构建同科技创新相适应的科技金融体制，推动创业投资市场健康稳定发展，畅通企业投融资渠道，引导金融资本投早、投小、投长期、投硬科技.
Third, vigorously cultivate outstanding young scientific and technological talent. The future of science lies with the young. We are pleased to see more and more young scientific and technological talents distinguishing themselves and bravely shouldering heavy responsibilities. The building of the contingent of young scientific and technological talent must be treated as a strategic project, with the work of cultivation, recruitment, and utilization done well in all respects. 第三，大力培养优秀青年科技人才。科学的未来在青年。我们高兴地看到，越来越多的青年科技人才脱颖而出、勇挑重担。要把青年科技人才队伍建设作为一项战略工程，全方位做好培养、引进、使用工作.
Advancing the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent is a successful experience we have explored and developed through practice. We must optimize mechanisms for collaborative talent cultivation between the scientific and educational sectors, persist in using talent in the course of cultivating it and cultivating talent in the course of using it, and pay attention to discovering and cultivating more outstanding young scientific talent on the front lines of research. We must increase stable support for researchers in the early stages of their careers and over long cycles, improve systems such as science and technology awards and income distribution, and help resolve their practical difficulties, thereby enabling them to dedicate themselves to deep research with peace of mind, stability, and professional security. We must seize the window of opportunity in global talent flows and actively recruit outstanding young talent and teams from overseas. We must also pay attention to discovering and cultivating the interests, special talents, scientific literacy, and experimental abilities of young people, attracting more young people with research potential to resolve to devote themselves to the scientific enterprise. The growth of young scientific talent cannot be separated from the support and encouragement of the older generation of scientists. Members of the two academies should take the lead in willingly serving as ladders for the younger generation, giving recognition and support to junior scholars, and conscientiously carrying out the work of mentoring and passing on knowledge and experience. 一体推进教育科技人才发展，是我们在实践中摸索总结的成功经验。要优化科教协同育人机制，坚持在培养中使用、在使用中培养，注重在科研一线发现和培养更多优秀青年科技人才。加大对科研人员职业早期和长周期稳定支持力度，完善科技奖励、收入分配等制度，帮助解决实际困难，让他们潜心钻研、安身安心安业。要抓住全球人才流动窗口期，积极引进海外优秀青年人才和团队。要注重挖掘和培养青少年兴趣特长、科学素养、实验能力，吸引更多具有科研潜质的青少年立志投身科技事业。青年科技人才成长离不开前辈科学家的支持和鼓励，两院院士要带头甘为人梯、奖掖后学，用心用情做好传帮带工作.
Fourth, improve the effectiveness of investment in scientific and technological innovation. During the 14th FYP period, China’s total social R&D expenditure maintained average annual growth of 10%, and investment intensity reached 2.8% in 2025, surpassing the average level of OECD countries for the first time. This was by no means easy and fully demonstrates the firm determination of the Party and the state to develop science and technology. At the same time, in practice, problems such as the waste of research funding and the inefficient and duplicative use of science and technology investment continue to exist to varying degrees. Authorities at all levels and relevant departments should improve institutional mechanisms and management methods, ensuring that real financial resources are not only invested where they are needed but are also used more effectively, so as to achieve both an increase in the scale of investment and an improvement in its efficiency. 第四，提高科技创新投入效能。“十四五”时期，我国全社会研发经费投入保持年均10%的增长，投入强度2025年达到2.8%、首次超过经合组织国家平均水平，这实属不易，充分体现了党和国家发展科技事业的坚定决心。同时，实际工作中科研经费浪费、科技投入低效重复等问题也不同程度存在。各级各有关方面要完善制度机制，改进管理办法，确保真金白银既投到位、更用得好，实现投入规模增加与效能提升的统一.
Fiscal funds play a guiding role in science and technology investment. We must improve the mechanisms for the allocation, management, and use of central government science and technology funding, with priority given to strategic and critical fields. We must establish and improve mechanisms for joint central-local funding of major scientific and technological tasks, rationally allocate central and local fiscal resources, and guide local governments to increase R&D investment in line with national strategic needs. We must improve the management of science and technology programs, strengthen oversight, inspection, and performance evaluation of scientific and technological projects, and severely investigate and punish corrupt practices such as rent-seeking in the management of research funds, project applications, and equipment procurement. We must also guide enterprises to increase investment in research and development and mobilize greater support from all sectors of society for scientific and technological innovation. 财政经费在科技投入中具有风向标作用。要完善中央财政科技经费分配和管理使用机制，重点向战略性、关键性领域倾斜；健全重大科技任务央地投入共担机制，合理配置中央和地方财政资金，引导地方聚焦国家战略需求加大研发投入。要改进科技计划管理，加强科技项目监督检查和绩效评估，严肃查处经费管理、项目申报、设备采购中搞利益寻租等腐败行为。要引导企业增加研发投入，调动更多社会力量支持科技创新.
Fifth, make good use of science and technology evaluation as a guiding baton. In recent years, we have continuously advanced reform of the science and technology evaluation system, which has played a positive role in promoting scientific research activities and improving the innovation environment. However, many problems remain in this area, and we must accelerate efforts to ‘break the Four Onlys’ (this refers to the campaign against evaluating people only by papers, only by titles, only by degrees, and only by awards) and ensure that science and technology evaluation effectively performs its guiding role. 第五，用好科技评价指挥棒。这些年我们一直在推动科技评价改革，对促进科研活动、优化创新环境发挥了积极作用，但这方面仍存在不少问题，要加快“破四唯”，有效发挥科技评价指挥棒作用.
Science and technology evaluation lies chiefly in handling matters according to the laws of scientific research. Project reviews, institutional assessments, and talent evaluations should all strengthen their orientation toward innovation capability, quality, practical results, and contribution, while reflecting the differences among various categories. Evaluation indicators must not have ambiguous weighting or even place secondary considerations above primary ones, nor should they adopt ‘one knife cuts all’ or ‘one pot boils all’ approaches We must continuously deepen the governance of ‘hats’ in the scientific and educational communities, preventing the simplistic use of titles and honours to determine remuneration and benefits or allocate innovation resources. We must vigorously carry forward the scientist’s spirit, strengthen the development of research integrity, address prominent problems in research conduct and academic ethos through stricter standards and more concrete measures, severely punish academic misconduct, and foster a clean, upright, and healthy research environment. 科技评价重在按科研规律办事。项目评审、机构评估、人才评价都要强化创新能力、质量、实效、贡献导向，体现不同类别的差异性，不能评价指标权重模糊甚至本末倒置，不能搞“一刀切”、“一锅煮”。要持续深化科教界“帽子”治理，防止简单以称号头衔确定薪酬待遇、配置创新资源。要大力弘扬科学家精神，加强科研诚信建设，以更严标准、更实举措整治作风学风突出问题，严肃惩处学术不端行为，营造风清气正的科研生态.
Sixth, strengthen science and technology ethics and security governance. Frontier technologies such as AI are accelerating in their iteration and application, and the ‘double-edged sword’ effect is becoming increasingly apparent. We must coordinate development and security as a whole, closely track the development trends of new technologies and new applications, strengthen the building of the science and technology governance system and governance capacity, and ensure that science and technology move upward and toward the good, remain safe and controllable, and benefit the people. 第六，加强科技伦理和安全治理。人工智能等前沿技术加速迭代应用，“双刃剑”效应日益显现。要统筹发展和安全，密切跟踪新技术新应用发展态势，加强科技治理体系和能力建设，推动科技向上向善、安全可控、造福人民.
In strengthening science and technology ethics and security governance, the priority lies in improving policies and institutions, laws and regulations, and governance norms, and in perfecting institutional mechanisms featuring multi-party participation and collaborative co-governance. For key fields such as AI and the life sciences, we must clarify ethical standards and guidelines and effectively address regulatory conflicts and ethical challenges. We must strengthen the assessment and judgment of science and technology security risks, monitoring and early warning, and emergency response; coordinate high-technology research and development with high-level security; and raise the security protection capabilities of critical positions and facilities. We must participate deeply in global science and technology governance, broadly publicize China’s propositions and China’s solutions, and enhance our discourse power and influence in the making of international rules. 加强科技伦理和安全治理，重点在于完善政策制度、法律法规和治理规范，健全多方参与、协同共治的体制机制。要针对人工智能、生命科学等重点领域，明确伦理标准和指引，有效应对规则冲突和伦理挑战。要加强科技安全风险研判、监测预警和应急响应，统筹高技术研发和高水平安全，提高关键部位和设施安全防护能力。要深度参与全球科技治理，广泛宣介中国主张和中国方案，提升国际规则制定话语权和影响力.
Towards the end of the speech, Xi basically calls for strengthening the leadership of the Party Central Committee over scientific and technological work, and for the institutions to shoulder their due responsibilities.
Separately, Cai Qi addressed the second plenary session of the 11th national congress of the China Association for Science and Technology. The text of his speech is also published in the paper today. Let me just share the operative bit.
“Since the 20th Party Congress, in the face of the accelerating breakthroughs of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and the intense and complex situation of major-country competition, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to the strategic leading position and fundamental supporting role of science and technology, drawn the blueprint for building a strong country in science and technology, advanced in an integrated manner the development of education, science and technology, and talent, and led China’s scientific and technological undertaking to take new and solid steps forward. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the broad ranks of scientific and technological workers have upheld the original aspiration of ‘serving the country through science and technology and innovating for the benefit of the people’, forged ahead with vigour and worked diligently without slackening, achieving innovation results that have attracted worldwide attention. Continuous breakthroughs have been made in fundamental frontier fields such as AI, quantum technology, and the life sciences; strategic high technologies such as space technology, biotechnology, and supercomputing have seized the commanding heights; and emerging industries such as integrated circuits, biomedicine, and intelligent robotics have flourished. Practice has fully proven that China’s scientific and technological workers have always kept the motherland in their hearts, served the people, courageously scaled scientific peaks, and dared to be pioneers. They are truly an outstanding contingent fully trusted by the Party and the state and the backbone force for building China into a strong country in science and technology.” 党的二十大以来，面对新一轮科技革命和产业变革加速突破、大国博弈激烈复杂的形势，以习近平同志为核心的党中央高度重视科技的战略先导地位和根本支撑作用，擘画科技强国建设蓝图，一体推进教育科技人才发展，引领我国科技事业迈出新的坚实步伐。广大科技工作者在党中央坚强领导下，坚守“科技报国、创新为民”初心，踔厉奋发、笃行不怠，取得举世瞩目的创新成果。人工智能、量子科技、生命科学等基础前沿领域不断实现突破，航天科技、生物技术、超级计算等战略高技术抢占制高点，集成电路、生物医药、智能机器人等新兴产业蓬勃发展。实践充分证明，我国科技工作者始终胸怀祖国、服务人民、勇攀高峰、敢为人先，不愧为党和国家充分信赖的优秀队伍和建设科技强国的中坚力量.
Cai then praised the CAST’s work since its 10th National Congress, before expressing the following.
The 15th FYP period is the crucial period for consolidating the foundations and exerting strength across the board toward China’s basic realization of socialist modernization, and it is also an important stage of storming fortifications and overcoming difficulties, breaking through passes and seizing strongholds, in the building of a science and technology power. Facing a complex and turbulent development environment, China needs the leading strategic support of science and technology more than at any time in the past, needs to bring fully into play the role of talent as the first resource more than at any time in the past, and needs to strengthen innovation as the first driving force more than at any time in the past. We must place high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening in a still more prominent position, closely center on the goals and tasks established by the 15th FYP to identify with precision the main directions of attack and the points where strength is to be applied, and let scientific and technological innovation run through every aspect of modernization construction. This both raises new and higher demands on science and technology work, and provides science and technology workers a still broader stage on which to give play to their aspirations. “十五五”时期是我国基本实现社会主义现代化夯实基础、全面发力的关键时期，也是科技强国建设攻坚克难、闯关夺隘的重要阶段。面对复杂多变的发展环境，我国比过去任何时候都更加需要科技的先导性战略支撑，都更加需要充分发挥人才第一资源作用，都更加需要增强创新第一动力。我们要把高水平科技自立自强摆在更加突出的位置，紧紧围绕“十五五”规划确立的目标任务找准主攻方向和发力点，让科技创新贯穿现代化建设各方面。这既对科技工作提出了新的更高要求，也为科技工作者施展抱负提供了更加广阔的舞台.
“We hope that the broad ranks of science and technology workers will be firm in the aspiration of serving the country through science and technology. Always uphold the correct political direction, be firm in ideals and convictions, profoundly comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments and resolutely achieve the Two Safeguards’, and continuously strengthen the resolve and confidence to build a science and technology power under the leadership of the Party. Always bear the overall situation in mind, cultivate deep feelings for family and country, write your papers on the soil of the motherland, and apply your research results in the cause of modernization construction. They should always remain confident in innovation, shoulder the important responsibilities of the times, foster the lofty ambition to dare to create, forge ahead with determination, pursue excellence, serve as the vanguard in making contributions during the 15th FYP period, and realize the value of their lives by creating first-class scientific and technological achievements. 希望广大科技工作者坚定科技报国志向。始终坚持正确政治方向，坚定理想信念，深刻领悟“两个确立”的决定性意义、坚决做到“两个维护”，不断增强在党的领导下建设科技强国的决心和信心。始终胸怀全局，厚植家国情怀，把论文写在祖国大地上，把科研成果应用在现代化建设事业中。始终坚定创新自信，肩负时代重任，树立敢于创造的雄心壮志，锐意进取，追求卓越，当好建功“十五五”的排头兵，在创造一流的科技业绩中实现人生价值.
We hope that the broad ranks of science and technology workers will bravely shoulder the mission of self-reliance and self-strengthening. Uphold the Four Orientations and be courageous in innovation and creation. Attach importance to and strengthen basic research, be adept at distilling scientific questions from industrial demand, dare to achieve breakthroughs in basic theory and underlying technologies, carry out original and disruptive innovation, and strive to realize more breakthroughs ‘from 0 to 1’. Focus on strategically contested fields that must be fought for and on the weak links of industrial chains and supply chains, strengthen cross-field and cross-disciplinary coordination, and fight well the battle of storming key core technologies. Actively broaden academic horizons, open up the innovation chain of basic research, applied development, and transformation of results, actively cultivate and develop new-quality productive forces, and promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with economic and social development. Practice the people-centered development philosophy, take the satisfaction of the people’s yearning for a better life as the point where scientific and technological innovation ultimately lands, and let more innovation achievements bring benefit to the people and to society. 希望广大科技工作者勇担自立自强使命。坚持“四个面向”，勇于创新创造。重视和加强基础研究，善于从产业需求中凝练科学问题，敢于突破基础理论和底层技术，开展原创性颠覆性创新，努力实现更多“从0到1”的突破。聚焦战略必争领域和产业链供应链薄弱环节，强化跨领域跨学科协同，打好关键核心技术攻坚战。主动拓展学术视野，打通基础研究、应用开发、成果转化的创新链条，积极培育发展新质生产力，推动科技创新与经济社会发展深度融合。践行以人民为中心的发展思想，把满足人民对美好生活的向往作为科技创新的落脚点，让更多创新成果造福人民、惠及社会.
We hope that the broad ranks of science and technology workers will lead the civilized trends of society. Consciously practice the core socialist values, and vigorously carry forward the spirit of the scientist. Hold fast to research integrity, scrupulously observe science and technology ethics, promote academic democracy, discard utilitarianism and extreme individualism, resist academic fraud and other forms of misconduct, and be forceful promoters of a clean and upright research environment. Cherish the cause of science and technology, overcome academic impatience, withstand setbacks, endure solitude, devote yourselves to meticulous research, and persevere in achieving long-term success. Senior scientists and leading science and technology talents should gladly serve as ladders for others and reward and encourage later generations of scholars, helping young scientific and technological talent to distinguish themselves, so that the torch of the scientific enterprise is passed from generation to generation and successors are assured. Actively participate in science popularization, raise the scientific and cultural quality of the entire people, cultivate innovation consciousness throughout all of society, and stimulate the innovation enthusiasm and creative vitality of the whole nation. 希望广大科技工作者引领社会文明风尚。自觉践行社会主义核心价值观，大力弘扬科学家精神。坚守科研诚信，恪守科技伦理，发扬学术民主，摒弃功利主义、极端个人主义，抵制学术造假等不端行为，做涵养风清气正科研生态的有力促进者。热爱科技事业，克服学术浮躁，经得起挫折，耐得住寂寞，潜心钻研、久久为功。老科学家和科技领军人才要甘为人梯、奖掖后学，帮助青年科技人才脱颖而出，让科技事业薪火相传、后继有人。积极参与科学普及，提升全民科学文化素质，在全社会培育创新意识，激发全民族创新热情和创造活力.
We hope that the broad ranks of science and technology workers will promote scientific and technological openness and cooperation. Ground your efforts in the needs of national development, adhere to the principle of taking China as the mainstay, deepen international exchanges in science, technology, and the humanities, proactively integrate into global innovation networks, widely publicize China’s scientific and technological achievements, promote platforms for openness and cooperation, actively participate in the development of international scientific and technological organizations, and contribute Chinese proposals and Chinese wisdom to global governance in science and technology, using the power of science and technology to help build a community with a shared future for mankind. Coordinate development and security as a whole, maintain strategic clarity, establish bottom-line thinking, strengthen risk consciousness, carry forward the spirit of struggle, actively foster a fair and just environment for development, and resolutely safeguard national interests and science and technology security.” 希望广大科技工作者促进科技开放合作。立足国家发展需要，坚持以我为主，深入开展国际科技人文交流，主动融入全球创新网络，广泛宣传我国科技成就，推介开放合作平台，积极参与国际科技组织建设，在全球科技治理中提出中国方案、贡献中国智慧，以科技之力推动构建人类命运共同体。统筹发展和安全，保持战略清醒，树立底线思维，增强风险意识，发扬斗争精神，积极营造公平公正发展环境，坚决维护国家利益和科技安全.
He then added:
“CAST is a people’s organization under the leadership of the Party, an important component of the national innovation system, and an important force in building China’s strength in science and technology. Scientific associations at all levels should strengthen ideological and political guidance, solidarity, cohesion, and service, guiding scientific and technological workers to persistently use the Party’s innovative theories to unify thinking and forge the soul, vigorously promote the spirit of scientists and the scientific spirit, clearly distinguish right from wrong and uphold what is right while rejecting what is wrong, and consolidate the common ideological foundation for unity and progress within the scientific and technological community. They should focus on serving the central task and the overall interests, making every effort to serve scientific and technological workers, innovation-driven development, the improvement of scientific literacy among the entire population, and the scientific decision-making of the Party and the government, while mobilizing the broad community of scientific and technological workers to make contributions during the 15th FYP period and advance on the new journey.” 科协是党领导下的人民团体，是国家创新体系的重要组成部分，是建设科技强国的重要力量。各级科协组织要突出思想政治引领、团结凝聚服务，引导科技工作者坚持不懈用党的创新理论凝心铸魂，大力弘扬科学家精神和科学精神，旗帜鲜明激浊扬清，筑牢科技界团结奋进的共同思想根基。突出围绕中心、服务大局，尽心尽力为科技工作者服务、为创新驱动发展服务、为提高全民科学素质服务、为党和政府科学决策服务，动员广大科技工作者建功“十五五”、奋进新征程.
“They should deepen reform and strengthen grassroots foundations, focusing on strengthening the Association’s political nature, advanced character, and public orientation, eliminating bureaucratization, administrative orientation, elitism, and entertainment-oriented tendencies, reforming the Association’s organizational and operational methods, and expanding both organizational coverage and effective work coverage in emerging fields. They should strengthen Party building and exercise strict governance over the Association, comprehensively enhance Party building, steadfastly advance comprehensive and strict Party self-governance, establish and practice a correct view of political achievement, strengthen governance of work style and academic conduct, and build the Association into a true home for scientific and technological workers. Association officials should remain loyal to the Party’s cause, improve their professional competence, maintain strict self-discipline and moral integrity, carry forward fine work styles, strengthen their ability to work with the people, wholeheartedly serve scientific and technological workers, and establish a positive image for the Association’s cadre ranks.” 突出深化改革、夯实基层，聚焦强“三性”、去“四化”，改革科协组织方式和活动方式，拓展新兴领域组织有形覆盖和工作有效覆盖。突出党建引领、从严治会，全面加强党的建设，持之以恒推进全面从严治党，树立和践行正确政绩观，加强作风学风治理，建设好科技工作者之家。科协干部要忠诚党的事业，提高专业素养，严于修身律己，发扬优良作风，增强群众工作本领，竭诚服务科技工作者，树立科协队伍良好形象.