Abstract:Situated against a backdrop of the latest development of language and script affairs in the new era, this study attempts to embark upon a multidimensional examination of new situations, new demands, new challenges and new opportunities to be encountered from both domestic and international perspectives, and explores the implementation stages, contents, assessment index and major principles of new objectives of language work. On the basis of a review of thoughts and work on the modernization of the national language governance system and its capacity, this study proposes a top-down design and an implementation scheme, namely the ‘system + capacity’, as the path of carrying out the cause of language and script work, in order to construct a systematic framework for the governance system and its capacity for the development of language and script work in the new era.