CAST and its affiliated organizations at all levels should adhere to their mission of serving scientific and technological workers, serving innovation-driven development, serving the enhancement of scientific literacy of the whole nation, and serving the scientific decision-making by the Party and government, push forward the construction of open, pivotal, platform oriented organizations, extend their reach to the grassroots, unite the broad masses of scientific and technological workers and lead them in the march of innovation, and by organizing innovation campaigns, speeding up the development of science and technology and promoting science popularization, build CAST into a people’s organization under the leadership of the Party in true sense that is capable of uniting all scientific and technological workers and an important force for scientific and technological innovation.
Xi Jinping
President of the People's Republic of China, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
