中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平3月9日在出席十三届全国人大四次会议解放军和武警部队代表团全体会议时强调，要实现“十四五”时期国防和军队建设良好开局。他指出，要大幅提升国防科技创新能力和水平。

President Xi Jinping stressed achieving a good start in strengthening national defense and the armed forces during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) period on March 9. Innovation in defense-related science and technology must be significantly boosted, he said. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while attending a plenary meeting of the delegation of the People's Liberation Army and People's Armed Police Force, at the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress, the top legislature.

要强化创新驱动，以更大力度、更实举措加快科技自立自强，充分发挥科技对我军建设战略支撑作用。

We should use scientific and technological innovation to drive its development. We must intensify efforts and take more concrete measures in the pursuit of independent innovation in science and technology, to fully leverage the role of science and technology as the strategic support for military development.

——2021年3月9日，习近平出席十三届全国人大四次会议解放军和武警部队代表团全体会议并发表重要讲话