Science and technology legislation is the core institutional support for the building of an innovative-oriented country and law-based governance. Historical analysis and empirical analysis show that the science and technology legislation in China follows a centralized legislation model with historical characteristics of responsiveness, process guidance, and bottom-line control. While the current science and technology legislation has made remarkable achievements in systemization, there exist problems such as imbalance between local supply and demand and conceptual simplification. The legislator should return to the functional positioning of science and technology legislation and the basic principles of law, economics, and policy, and take the construction of an innovative country as policy guide for science and technology legislation in the new era. China's science and technology legislation and policies should coexist effectively, taking into account the improvement of both form and efficiency, and realize the comprehensive goals of consolidating the tradition of rule of law for issues of science and technology, cultivating the culture of rule of law for science and technology, and enriching the thoughts of rule of law for issues of science and technology.

innovative country  /  science and technology legislation  /  science and technology policy