State Council Releases 'China Manufacturing 2025' Plan
On May 19, the State Council issued the China Manufacturing 2025 Plan, the first of "three steps" in a broader 30-year plan for transforming China from "big industrial country" to "powerful industrial country." The China Manufacturing 2025 Plan will be followed by two subsequent roughly 10-year manufacturing plans, ending in 2049, the century anniversary of the founding of the PRC.
The Plan lists 5 mega projects for China manufacturing upgrade by 2025, including:
- construction of national manufacturing innovation centers
- intelligent manufacturing
- industrial base capacity and quality enhancement
- green manufacturing
- high-end equipment innovation
In addition, the Plan includes key indicators for measuring China's manufacturing performance in 2013, 2015, 2020 and 2025 for each of the five mega project categories, and indigenous innovation self-sufficiency targets for basic and strategic fields related to national interests and industry security.
The Plan emphasizes a deep integration of information technology and industrialization and the development of new-generation information technologies, and calls for promotion of "indigenous and controllable" smart equipment, as well as domestic IP for key general chips to ensure national information and cyber security and the growth of China's electronic product industry. The plan requires 40% self-sufficiency by 2020 of critical basic components, such as those in aerospace, communications, railway equipment, and domestic appliances, to reach 70% by 2025.
The plan was developed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology over a 2.5 year period with input from more than 150 experts from the China Academy of Engineering. A central manufacturing leading group will orchestrate and enhance development of the plan.
