To accelerate the high-quality development of the manufacturing service industry, 13 departments including the National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation have issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of the Manufacturing Service Industry" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"). The Opinions focus on key links and areas, accelerating the development of manufacturing services from six aspects such as enhancing manufacturing innovation capabilities and optimizing the quality of manufacturing supply, leading the transformation, upgrading, and quality improvement of manufacturing through high-quality service supply. The Opinions clarify the need to accelerate the market-oriented, internationalized, specialized, intensive, and standardized reform and development of the inspection, testing, and certification service industry, improve service levels and credibility, promote the construction of the national inspection, testing, and certification public service platform, and drive the improvement of manufacturing product and service quality.
To the relevant departments of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government, cities specifically designated in the state plan, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:
The manufacturing service industry is a production-oriented service industry aimed at manufacturing. It is an important support for enhancing the competitiveness and comprehensive strength of manufacturing products, promoting the transformation, upgrading, and high-quality development of manufacturing. Currently, the quality of supply in China's manufacturing service industry is not high, the degree of specialization and socialization is insufficient, the role in leading the manufacturing value chain climb is not obvious, and there is still a gap with the requirements of building a modern economic system and achieving high-quality economic development. To accelerate the high-quality development of the manufacturing service industry, the following opinions are proposed.
(1) Guiding Ideology. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the second, third, fourth, and fifth plenary sessions of the 19th Central Committee, unswervingly implement the new development concept, take promoting high-quality development as the theme, deepen supply-side structural reform as the main line, give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, better play the role of the government, focus on key areas and critical links, cultivate and expand service entities, accelerate the improvement of specialized, socialized, and comprehensive service capabilities for manufacturing, improve the overall quality and level of the manufacturing industry chain, adapt to and lead the creation of new demand with high-quality supply, and provide strong support for accelerating the construction of a modern economic system and the establishment of a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other.
(2) Development Goals. Strive to significantly enhance the role of the manufacturing service industry in improving manufacturing quality and efficiency, innovation capability, and resource allocation efficiency by 2025, and make its support and leading role in the high-quality development of manufacturing more prominent. The level of specialization, standardization, branding, digitalization, and internationalization in key areas of the manufacturing service industry will be significantly improved, forming a number of manufacturing service industry clusters and demonstration enterprises with distinctive characteristics and obvious advantages.
II. Development Directions of the Manufacturing Service Industry
Focus on key links and areas, accelerate the development of the manufacturing service industry from six aspects, and lead the transformation, upgrading, and quality improvement of manufacturing through high-quality service supply.
(3) Enhance Manufacturing Innovation Capability. Develop scientific and technological services such as research and development, technology transfer, entrepreneurship incubation, intellectual property, and scientific and technological consulting; strengthen key core technology breakthroughs; accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements; consolidate the foundation of industry-university-research collaborative innovation; promote precise docking and deep integration of the industrial chain and innovation chain; enhance manufacturing technological innovation capabilities; improve the advanced level of the manufacturing industry base and the modernization of the industrial and supply chains. Improve the specialization and digitalization level of business consulting to help manufacturing enterprises establish strategic thinking, innovate management models, optimize governance structures, and promote improved operational efficiency. Accelerate the innovative development of industrial design, enhance manufacturing design capabilities and levels, and promote the transformation from Made in China to Created in China. (Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Commerce, and National Intellectual Property Administration are responsible according to their duties)
(4) Optimize the Quality of Manufacturing Supply. Support enterprises and professional institutions to provide services such as quality management, control, and evaluation, expand the supply of high-quality manufacturing products and services, and improve the adaptability of the supply system to demand. Accelerate the market-oriented, internationalized, specialized, intensive, and standardized reform and development of the inspection, testing, and certification service industry, improve service levels and credibility, promote the construction of the national inspection, testing, and certification public service platform, and drive the improvement of manufacturing product and service quality. Strengthen the construction of national metrology benchmarks and standard substances, improve metrology and testing capabilities, and optimize the market supply of metrology and testing services. Develop full lifecycle management for products aimed at manufacturing, including research and development, manufacturing, delivery, and maintenance, to achieve extension of the manufacturing chain and value addition. Encourage professional service institutions to actively participate in manufacturing brand building and market promotion, strengthen brand and marketing management services, and enhance the brand effect and market competitiveness of manufacturing. (State Administration for Market Regulation, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission are responsible according to their duties)
(5) Improve Manufacturing Production Efficiency. Utilize new generation information technologies such as 5G, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain to vigorously develop intelligent manufacturing, achieve precise and efficient matching of supply and demand, and promote fundamental changes in manufacturing development models and enterprise forms. Accelerate the development of industrial software and the industrial internet, cultivate shared manufacturing, shared design, and shared data platforms, and promote efficient resource utilization and value sharing in manufacturing. Develop a modern logistics service system, promote the integration and sharing of information resources, realize real-time collection and interconnection of information in upstream and downstream links such as procurement, production, and circulation, and improve the integrated operation level of production manufacturing and logistics. (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Commerce are responsible according to their duties)
(6) Support Green Development of Manufacturing.
Strengthen the support role of energy-saving and environmental protection services for the green development of manufacturing, promote models such as contract energy management, energy-saving diagnosis, energy-saving evaluation, energy-saving technology transformation consulting services, energy-saving and environmental protection financing, third-party monitoring, third-party environmental pollution governance, and comprehensive environmental management trusteeship services, Promote the extension of energy-saving and environmental protection services from single, short-term technical services to comprehensive services covering consulting, management, investment and financing, and other fields throughout the entire lifecycle. Develop recycling and utilization services, improve the recycling and utilization system for renewable resources, smooth the entire chain of production, consumption, recycling, treatment, and reuse of products such as automobiles, textiles, and home appliances, and maximize the economic and social value of products. (Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Commerce, National Development and Reform Commission are responsible according to their duties)
(7) Enhance the Vitality of Manufacturing Development. Better leverage the role of the capital market, fully utilize diversified financial instruments, continuously innovate service models, and provide higher quality and more efficient financial services for manufacturing development. Develop human resource management services, improve talent management capabilities and levels, optimize talent incentive mechanisms, promote stable manufacturing employment, and help achieve common prosperity. Increase efforts in data resource development, opening, and sharing, promote the reasonable flow, effective aggregation, and utilization of new production factors such as knowledge, information, and data, and promote the digital transformation of manufacturing. (China Securities Regulatory Commission, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, People's Bank of China, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Cyberspace Administration, National Development and Reform Commission are responsible according to their duties)
(8) Promote Innovation and Application of Manufacturing Supply Chains. Improve the manufacturing supply chain service system, steadily advance the intelligent supply chain system for manufacturing, innovate network and service platform construction, and promote the transformation of the manufacturing supply chain into an industrial service supply chain. Support manufacturing enterprises in leveraging their supply chain advantages to empower upstream and downstream enterprises, facilitating efficient connection and full-process collaboration across all links. Consolidate the competitiveness of core links in the manufacturing supply chain and address weaknesses in the manufacturing supply chain. Promote the application of sensing technology at key nodes of the manufacturing supply chain, advance the intelligent supply chain system in key industries, and gradually achieve supply chain visualization. Establish a manufacturing supply chain evaluation system, gradually form a global supply chain risk early warning system for important resources and products, improve the global supply chain risk early warning mechanism, and enhance the global influence and competitiveness of China's manufacturing supply chain. (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Commerce responsible according to division of duties)
3. Accelerate the Special Action for the Development of Manufacturing Services
Take special actions and key projects as the starting point, plan comprehensively, focus on breakthroughs, and achieve coupling and symbiotic growth between manufacturing and manufacturing services.
(9) Manufacturing Services Main Body Cultivation Action. Focus on common service demands of manufacturing, accelerate the cultivation of a batch of comprehensive service platforms integrating strategic consulting, management optimization, solution innovation, and digital capability building. Support manufacturing enterprises to divest non-core services according to market principles, providing socialized and specialized services such as R&D design, entrepreneurship incubation, metrology testing, and inspection for upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain. Encourage manufacturing service enterprises to carry out mergers and acquisitions according to market principles to achieve intensive and branded development. Cultivate a batch of new industrial service platforms or social organizations in manufacturing services, encouraging them to carry out collaborative R&D, resource sharing, and result promotion activities. (National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission responsible according to division of duties)
(10) Integration Development Pilot Demonstration Action. Deepen the pilot integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, cultivate new business forms and models such as service-derived manufacturing, supply chain management, and general contracting, explore new paths for integration of key industries such as raw materials, consumer goods, and equipment manufacturing with the service industry. Further improve mechanisms for factor allocation, market supervision, statistical monitoring, and build a batch of deeply integrated enterprises and platforms. Select and cultivate a batch of service-oriented manufacturing demonstration enterprises, platforms, projects, and cities, promoting widespread recognition of the service-oriented manufacturing concept and in-depth development of main service-oriented manufacturing models. (National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Bureau of Statistics responsible according to division of duties)
(11) China Manufacturing Brand Cultivation Action.
Improve the national quality infrastructure, strengthen the construction of standards, metrology, patents, and other systems and capabilities, and carry out quality improvement actions in depth. Fully mobilize enterprises' subjective initiative as the main body of brand building, establish a brand development strategy based on quality, continuously optimize product and service supply, and promote manufacturing enterprises to improve quality management levels. Continue to hold China Brand Day activities, tell the story of Chinese brands well, promote domestic premium products, further spread the brand development concept throughout society, enhance brand development awareness, and consolidate consensus on brand development. (State Administration for Market Regulation, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Commerce, Intellectual Property Office responsible according to division of duties)
(12) Manufacturing Intelligent Transformation Action.
Develop digital transformation roadmaps for key industry sectors. Accelerate the development of urgently needed standards such as integration maturity of informatization and industrialization, and supply chain digitalization, speed up the cloud adoption of industrial equipment and enterprises. Implement a special action for digital empowerment of small and medium-sized enterprises, gather a group of digital service providers targeting manufacturing SMEs. Promote the “5G+ Industrial Internet” 512 project, build 5 intranet construction and transformation public service platforms, select 10 key industries, and explore 20 typical application scenarios. In key fields such as metallurgy, petrochemicals, automobiles, and home appliances, select a batch of intelligent manufacturing benchmark factories with outstanding implementation results and high replication value, accelerate the formulation of industry-specific intelligent manufacturing implementation roadmaps, and revise and improve the national intelligent manufacturing standards system. Carry out network security capability standardization actions for networked manufacturing enterprises, and select a batch of standardization demonstration enterprises. (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission, State Administration for Market Regulation responsible according to division of duties)
(13) Manufacturing R&D and Design Capability Enhancement Action. Promote the healthy and orderly development of new R&D institutions, support technology enterprises to cooperate with universities and research institutes to establish technology R&D centers, industrial research institutes, pilot bases, and other new R&D institutions, revitalize and integrate innovation resources, and promote collaborative innovation among industry, academia, and research. Vigorously promote the popularization of concepts and methods of system design, green design, and creative design, carry out key design breakthrough projects in high-end equipment manufacturing and traditional advantageous industries, cultivate a batch of national and provincial industrial design research platforms, highlight the comprehensive driving effect of design innovation and creative parks on economic and social development, explore the establishment of an innovation-centered design empowerment mechanism, and promote comprehensive improvement of manufacturing design capabilities. (Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission responsible according to division of duties)
(14) Manufacturing Green Transformation Action.
Carry out the construction of green industry demonstration bases, build green development promotion platforms, and cultivate a batch of market entities with independent intellectual property rights and specialized service capabilities, Promote the green level improvement of industries such as steel, petrochemical, chemical, non-ferrous metals, building materials, textiles, papermaking, and leather. Actively build the home appliance sales and waste home appliance recycling and treatment industry chain, explore the implementation of extended producer responsibility target systems for home appliance enterprises, study and carry out resource and environmental performance evaluation of waste electrical and electronic product dismantling enterprises, and promote home appliance renewal consumption. (National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Ecology and Environment responsible according to division of duties)
(15) Manufacturing Supply Chain Innovation Development Action. Explore the implementation of the manufacturing supply chain competitiveness improvement project, gradually improve the key supporting system of strategic emerging industry supply chains, and consolidate the competitiveness of core links in the manufacturing supply chain. Conduct comprehensive assessments of manufacturing supply chain synergy, security, stability, and competitiveness, study and map the panoramic supply chain of key manufacturing industries based on domestic and international industrial cycles. Encourage enterprises to actively participate in global supply chain networks, establish a global supply chain risk early warning system for important resources and products. Study the national manufacturing supply chain security plan and establish a global supply chain risk early warning evaluation index system. (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Commerce responsible according to division of duties)
(16) Manufacturing Services Standard System Construction Action. Deeply carry out standardization construction actions in service fields such as information technology, scientific and technological innovation services, financial services, service outsourcing, after-sales service, human resources services, modern logistics, modern supply chain, and facility management, Promote the gradual improvement of the manufacturing services standard system. Continuously improve common standards such as industrial internet identification and resolution system, network interconnection, edge computing, data specification system, and industrial APP, Support the formulation of mandatory national standards for technical requirements involving safety, health, and environmental protection.
(The State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Commerce, the People's Bank of China, and other departments are responsible according to their duties)
(Seventeen) Action to enhance metrology capabilities in manufacturing. Build a national modern advanced measurement system, accelerate the construction of national industrial metrology testing centers and alliances, cultivate high-tech manufacturing service industries such as metrology testing, focus on the manufacturing industry's problems of "unable to measure, inaccurate measurement," strengthen research and application of metrology testing technology, increase R&D of specialized metrology testing equipment and instrument manufacturing, improve the overall measurement capability and level of manufacturing, and empower industrial innovation and high-quality development in manufacturing. (The State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Science and Technology are responsible according to their duties)
4. Safeguard Measures
(Eighteen) Strengthen organizational guarantees. Fully leverage the role of the inter-ministerial joint meeting system for service industry development, strengthen overall coordination and work guidance. All regions and relevant departments should strengthen their main responsibilities, form synergy, detail and solidify work tasks and completion deadlines, establish an efficient and collaborative work promotion mechanism, and ensure effective development of the manufacturing service industry. (Led by the National Development and Reform Commission)
(Nineteen) Optimize the development environment. Continue to relax market access and further eliminate hidden barriers. Support manufacturing service enterprises separated from manufacturing companies to apply for recognition as high-tech enterprises and technologically advanced service enterprises according to regulations. Encourage manufacturing service enterprises to actively undertake offshore and onshore service outsourcing business. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Commerce are responsible according to their duties)
(Twenty) Expand openness and cooperation. Promote a new round of high-level opening-up of the service industry, actively introduce global high-quality service resources, encourage the import of knowledge- and technology-intensive services such as R&D design, energy conservation and environmental protection, and environmental services. Actively promote the internationalization of China's technical quality standards and norms, continuously improve the international cooperation and exchange system for inspection, testing, and certification and accreditation, accelerate mutual recognition of certification certificates and inspection results with key export markets. Focused on the "Belt and Road" initiative, encourage professional services such as supply chain management, consulting, legal, and accounting to go global in coordination with manufacturing, enhancing the global service market resource allocation capability. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Finance are responsible according to their duties)
(Twenty-one) Strengthen land use guarantees. Regions may, based on actual conditions and following the principle of "stock first, then increment," clarify land use structure and industrial land indicators in territorial spatial planning. Under the premise of complying with territorial spatial planning and land use control, promote reasonable conversion of different types of industrial land, explore increasing the supply of mixed industrial land, encourage regions to explore innovative industrial land models to adapt to the development of manufacturing services. (Led by the Ministry of Natural Resources)
(Twenty-two) Strengthen talent support.
Accelerate the cultivation and training of innovative, application-oriented, and compound talents in the manufacturing service field, and enrich and strengthen the high-level talent team in manufacturing services. Keep pace with the development trends and market demands of manufacturing services, deepen the construction of new engineering disciplines, adjust and optimize the structure of university majors, strengthen school-enterprise cooperation, explore the Chinese characteristic apprenticeship system, and promote deep integration of industry and education. Summarize and promote pilot experiences of the academic certificate + several vocational skill level certificates ("1+X" certificate) system. Improve the skill talent evaluation system, promote close integration of talent evaluation and utilization, break restrictions such as identity and academic qualifications, and open career development channels for manufacturing service talents. Further implement high-level talent introduction policies, increase the introduction of overseas high-level talents and leading entrepreneurial innovation teams in manufacturing services. (The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education, and the National Development and Reform Commission are responsible according to their duties)
(Twenty-three) Broaden financing channels. Guide financial institutions to increase financing support for manufacturing service enterprises under the premise of legal compliance and controllable risks, support eligible manufacturing service enterprises to carry out bond financing, effectively expand intangible asset pledge financing scale such as intellectual property and contract energy management future revenue rights, innovate and develop supply chain finance, gradually develop equipment leasing and financial leasing services in fields such as large equipment, public facilities, and production lines, develop financial products suitable for manufacturing service characteristics, and encourage venture capital institutions to increase capital investment in manufacturing services. Support eligible manufacturing service enterprises to list and finance on the main board, ChiNext, and overseas capital markets. (The People's Bank of China, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the China Securities Regulatory Commission are responsible according to their duties)
(Twenty-four) Build a collaborative development ecosystem. Strengthen regional cooperation, enhance industrial layout coordination, achieve functional complementarity and differentiated development, and form an integrated manufacturing service industry ecosystem. Support the agglomeration development of manufacturing services, improve supporting functions, and optimize the agglomeration ecosystem. Rely on leading enterprises to build an industrial chain value-added service ecosystem, promote upstream and downstream enterprises to carry out collaborative procurement, collaborative manufacturing, and collaborative logistics, facilitate specialized division of labor and cooperation among large, medium, and small enterprises, and build an innovation collaboration, capacity sharing, and supply chain interconnected ecological chain. (The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology are responsible according to their duties)
National Development and Reform Commission
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Science and Technology
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security
Ministry of Natural Resources
Ministry of Ecology and Environment
Ministry of Transport
Ministry of Commerce
People's Bank of China
State Administration for Market Regulation
China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission
March 16, 2021
Source: National Development and Reform Commission
