This article argues that the key to achieving self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology is to correctly handle the relationship between government and market, give full play to the role of national strategic scientific and technological forces, tamp the foundation of innovation, insist on acting within the scope of the profession, and build a system for tackling key problems with core key technologies. It also argues to use market power to stimulate the vitality and driving force of enterprise innovation and promote deep integration of science and technology and economic and social development, in which the role of standards guidance and quality management are essential.. In addition, China should strengthen top-level design, improve evaluation mechanism, spread the innovative culture, and build a new mechanism of opening up and cooperation, so as to form a good innovation ecology and provide institutional guarantee for the construction of an innovative country.

innovation-oriented country  /  innovation-driven development strategy  /  self-reliance and self-improvement  /  basic research  /  system and mechanism