By organizing and supporting a number of major projects, priority projects and guidance projects, while implementing relevant measures, the Program is expected to accomplish the following six major tasks during the 10th Five-year Plan period:

1. An initial effort is to promote in-depth agro-product processing by developing a number of key technologies and products for sustainable agricultural development. By doing this, the expectation is to upgrade the technical levels in agricultural pre-production, production, and post-production, optimize the agricultural structure, improve the quality and efficiency of agricultural development, and enhance the competitiveness of agricultural products.
   
   
2. With the manufacturing industry as a gateway to new innovations, redouble efforts to develop common key technologies for basic and pillar industries. Also, speed up the application of IT and other high technologies in traditional industries. Strengthen engineering research in application technologies, develop technologies and equipment for clean energy, intelligent traffic system, and textile post-treatment, enhance added value of products, boost the technical level and domestic content of complete set of equipment.
   
   
3. With informatization process in the financial sector as a priority, accelerate the development of IT and other high technologies, along with related industrial development, to render technical support to the informatization of the national economy.
   
   
4. With environmental protection and rational utilization of resources as priorities, develop key technologies in urban environmental pollution control, push forward the rational utilization of water resources, develop and demonstrate technologies for the improvement of regional ecology and environment, intensify technical research in exploration and the development of oil and gas fields and are strategic solid mineral resources, establish technical supporting systems for the disaster prevention and mitigation, and promote sustainable social development.
   
   
5. With the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a gateway to innovation, develop key technologies in the TCM industry to secure its world-leading position.
   
   
6. With promotion of the social cause as a goal, intensify research on major public welfare technologies and develop advanced and applicable technologies and products to further enhance the living standards of the Chinese people. Intensify research on technical standards and measurements to facilitate the establishment of China's technical standardization system.