General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out repeatedly this year that we should form a new development pattern that takes the domestic market as the mainstay and allows the domestic and foreign markets to boost each other. On August 24th, he emphasized again at the expert symposium on economic and social fields that the new pattern is not a development loop behind closed doors, but more open domestic and international circulations. Xi also made a clear request at the symposium that we should persist in opening-up and innovation and strengthen international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation. It not only points out the direction of innovation in the international scientific and technological cooperation, but also makes work arrangements during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.The specific requirement for international scientific and technological cooperation is to effectively connect it with opening-up and innovation, which is necessary for realizing high-level opening up to the outside world and pushing forward the high-quality development in the new era. Based on the Five-Year Plans of China’s international scientific and technological cooperation that have been completed four times continuously, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed new requirements on the upcoming 14th Five-Year period, which is also the fifth international cooperation plan.
