Determined to operate with its own characteristics, the institute focuses on shipbuilding, marine power equipments and ship electrical automation technology, forming a specialized group to serve national coast defense, oceanic transportation, and marine development. The institute concentrates on numerical control processing technology, forming a specialized group of modern manufacturing to serve new national industrialization. Based on the promotion of national wide transportation and wide circulation, the institute has formed a specialized group with modern information and management knowledge to carry out the strategy of Hubei rising abruptly within mid-China.