Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society is a national, academic and non-profit social organization which is voluntarily formed by mechanical science and technology workers with mechanical engineers as the main body and units and groups engaged in scientific research, design, manufacturing, teaching and management in mechanical engineering and related fields and registered according to law. It is also a part of China association for science and technology.
 

According to the official website of the institute in June 2018, the secretariat of the institute is a permanent administrative body of the institute, which has set up 9 working committees and 1 administrative body. Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society has 180,000 members, including more than 3,000 senior members, more than 500 communication members and more than 4,000 unit members. On June 2, 2019, the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society issued a solemn statement about IEEE's restrictions on normal academic exchanges.