The book includes 28 important contributions on scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. The main articles of this monograph are described below.

The book is edited by the Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It is published by Perennial Press, a division of Penguin Books, which is owned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). The book was released on May 5, 2014.