Made in China 2025: From a Big Industrial Country to an Industrial Power
May 8, 2015
On March 27, 2015, Su Bo, the vice - minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a regular press briefing on State Council policies that "Made in China 2025" puts forward three stages, nine major tasks, ten key fields and five major projects. Vice - Minister Su Bo stated that "Made in China 2025" is the action plan for the first decade of China's strategy to become a manufacturing powerhouse. It is not just an ordinary industry development plan. Instead, it is a long - term strategic plan formulated in light of the overall trends of international and domestic economic and social development as well as industrial transformation. It aims not only to promote the transformation, upgrading, healthy and stable development of traditional manufacturing industries, but also to achieve high - end leapfrog development in response to the new technological revolution.
Three Stages
According to Vice - Minister Su Bo, China's journey towards becoming a manufacturing powerhouse can be divided into three stages: By 2025, China's manufacturing industry will enter the second echelon in the world and join the ranks of manufacturing powerhouses; by 2035, it will be at the forefront of the second echelon and become a genuine manufacturing powerhouse; by 2045, it is expected to enter the first echelon and become a manufacturing powerhouse with global leading influence.
Nine Major Tasks
The nine major tasks include enhancing the country's manufacturing innovation capacity, promoting the in - depth integration of informatization and industrialization, strengthening the industrial foundation capacity, improving quality and brand building, comprehensively promoting green manufacturing, vigorously promoting breakthrough development in key fields, further advancing the structural adjustment of the manufacturing industry, actively developing service - oriented manufacturing and producer services, and improving the international development level of the manufacturing industry.
The main feature of the new round of industrial revolution is the in - depth integration of information technology and manufacturing technology to enhance the country's manufacturing innovation capacity. In the process of in - depth integration, on the one hand, from the perspective of the industry itself, it is necessary to strengthen the industrial foundation capacity, improve quality and brand building, and vigorously promote breakthrough development in key fields; on the other hand, from the perspective of the industrial environment, it is necessary to comprehensively promote green manufacturing, further advance the structural adjustment of the manufacturing industry, actively develop service - oriented manufacturing and producer services, and improve the international development level of the manufacturing industry.
Ten Key Fields
The ten key fields are the new - generation information and communication technology industry, high - end CNC machine tools and robots, aerospace equipment, marine engineering equipment and high - tech ships, rail transit equipment, energy - saving and new - energy vehicles, power equipment, new materials, biomedicine and high - performance medical devices, and agricultural machinery equipment. Five Major Projects The five major projects include the construction of national manufacturing innovation centers, intelligent manufacturing, strengthening the industrial foundation, green manufacturing, and innovation in high - end equipment.
The construction of national manufacturing innovation centers mainly refers to projects focusing on basic research and industrialization in the ten future - oriented key fields, aiming to build a number of manufacturing innovation centers that integrate industry, academia, research and application.
Intelligent manufacturing is the core of the new round of industrial revolution. Only through intelligent manufacturing can the digital and intelligent levels of various industries be improved.
Implementing the project of strengthening the industrial foundation is mainly to address the backwardness of basic components, basic processes and basic materials.
Implementing the green manufacturing project is to strive to solve the constraints of the environment and resources on China's economic development.
Finally, on the basis of implementing special projects such as the Internet, CNC machine tools and large aircraft, new special projects for high - end equipment innovation will be promoted.