On February 6, the signed article of Improving the Science and Technology Innovation System and Mechanism with the first author of Fang Li, the Secretary of Party Committee of BJAST and Director of the Beijing Research Center for Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for A New Era, BJAST Base (hereinafter referred to as "BJAST Base") was published in the Theoretical Edition of the People's Daily. This article is an important theoretical research result of the BJAST Base, and was reposted by Xuexi.cn, cssn.cn and other authoritative media.

This article pointed out that establishing and improving the modern scientific and technological innovation management system are the important support for establishing the great modern socialist country and the important guarantee of the modernization of the state governance system and governance capacity. For more than 40 years of reform and opening-up, under the relatively weak scientific and technological base, China has made full use of the advantages of mechanisms and systems, to constantly energize science and technology innovation, thus becoming a major science and technology innovation power with great influence. Currently, under the new circumstance of a new round of scientific and technological revolution, developing industrial transformation and increasingly fierce science and technology competition, we face extremely daunting tasks in scientific and technological innovation, especially, we should provide the guarantee in improving the breakthrough of the core and key technologies, basic research investment, technology innovation system, and the finding, training and motivation of scientific and technological talents and other mechanisms and systems.