中国发展航天事业服从和服务于国家整体发展战略，坚持创新发展、协调发展、和平发展、开放发展的原则。

　　——创新发展。把自主创新摆在航天事业发展全局的核心位置，实施航天重大科技工程，加强科学探索和技术创新，深化体制机制改革，激发创新创造活力，推动航天事业跨越发展。

China's space industry is subject to and serves the national overall development strategy, and adheres to the principles of innovative, coordinated, peaceful and open development.

- Innovative development. China takes independent innovation as the core of the development of its space industry. It implements major space science and technology projects, strengthens scientific exploration and technological innovation, deepens institutional reforms, and stimulates innovation and creativity, working to promote rapid development of the space industry.

　　——协调发展。合理配置各类资源，鼓励和引导社会力量有序参与航天发展，科学统筹部署各项航天活动，推动空间科学、空间技术、空间应用全面发展，提升航天整体发展质量和效益。

　　——和平发展。始终坚持和平利用外层空间，反对外空武器化和外空军备竞赛，合理开发和利用空间资源，切实保护空间环境，维护一个和平、清洁的外层空间，使航天活动造福全人类。

- Coordinated development. China rationally allocates various resources, encourages and guides social forces to take an orderly part in space development. All space activities are coordinated under an overall plan of the state to promote the comprehensive development of space science, space technology and space applications, and to improve the quality and efficiency of overall space development.

- Peaceful development. China always adheres to the principle of the use of outer space for peaceful purposes, and opposes the weaponization of or an arms race in outer space. The country develops and utilizes space resources in a prudent manner, takes effective measures to protect the space environment to ensure a peaceful and clean outer space and guarantee that its space activities benefit the whole of mankind.