CJME welcomes original research articles, reviews, letters, research highlights, and editorials. The mission of CJME is to serve researchers through prompt publication of significant advances in the branch of mechanical engineering, to encourage communication of high quality, innovative research results at mechanical engineering and related disciplines, and it is aimed to become an international academic journal of mechanical engineering.

CJME is one of the top journals in Mechanical Engineering in China, and the only official journal of CMES serving for international communication with more than 80 international societies/institutions, such as ASME, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), etc. And it is aimed to become a world-class academic journal.

According to the 2019 Journal Citation Reports Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2020), the journal impact factor (JIF) of CJME is 1.824, ranked 70th in 130 journals in Engineering, Mechanical Category. CiteScore from SCOPUS is 4.0, ranked 137th in 585 journals in Mechanical Engineering Category.