Abstract:In combination with the formulation of talents development strategy for "Innovation 2020" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the present paper makes an introduction to the CAS direction and target of talents strategy in the new period;through the analyses and comparison of talents work in different stages and protruding problems confronting the talents work,the paper discusses the times characteristics of talents strategy and succession;and the paper emphatically introduces the scientific foundation and research method for the formulation of talents strategy,and expounds the thinking mode and technology path which should be adopted in the work of the formulation of talents strategy.