Focusing on building a strong manufacturing nation and accelerating the advancement of new industrialization

　　Industrialization is fundamentally driven and marked by the development of modern manufacturing. China is the world's largest manufacturing country and the only country in the world to have all industrial categories classified by the United Nations Industrial Classification. However, compared with the world's industrial powers, China's scientific and technological innovation capability and manufacturing foundation are still weak. Some core technologies remain controlled by others, and the overall technological advancement and industrial security need improvement. To achieve new industrialization, China must focus on promoting high-quality development of manufacturing and realize the transformation from a large manufacturing country to a strong manufacturing country.

　　Green development is a basic feature of a modern industrial system. It is necessary to accelerate the green transformation of development methods and promote high-quality economic development through industrial greening. The picture shows the reversible pump-turbine generator unit in the underground plant of the State Grid Xinyuan Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station in Chengde City, Hebei Province, on August 19, 2023. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li He / photo

　　Using the industrial chain and supply chain as the basic units for building a strong manufacturing country, comprehensively build an independent, controllable, safe, and reliable industrial chain and supply chain.

　　Today's global economic competition is not only between enterprises and industries but also a competition of industrial chains and supply chains. The main threat to a country's industrial security is the "break" or "blockage" of global industrial chains and supply chains. Against the backdrop of accelerating evolution of unprecedented global changes in a century, with the deep development of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, promoting new industrialization and accelerating the construction of a strong manufacturing country requires focusing on enhancing the resilience and security level of industrial chains and supply chains. This requires improving the advanced level of industrial foundations and modernization of industrial chains, focusing on key industrial chains and supply chains, identifying critical core technologies and "bottleneck" components, deeply implementing industrial foundation reconstruction projects and major technological equipment research projects, emphasizing breakthroughs in key core technologies in fields such as new-generation information technology, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence, and achieving pioneering breakthroughs in high-end chips, operating systems, new materials, and major equipment.

　　Focus on enhancing manufacturing innovation capabilities and continuously promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure.

　　Strengthen the leading role of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, vigorously promote the spirit of outstanding entrepreneurs, encourage enterprises to increase investment in innovation, cultivate more world-class enterprises with excellent products, renowned brands, leading innovation, and modern governance, and continuously expand the group of specialized and innovative enterprises. Strengthen national scientific and technological strength, enhance basic research, better leverage the advantages of the new national system, increase efforts in applied basic research, promote deep integration of innovation chains, industrial chains, capital chains, and talent chains, strengthen demand and scenario-driven approaches, build a number of high-quality national manufacturing innovation centers and pilot and application verification platforms, and construct open, collaborative, and efficient common technology R&D platforms. Accelerate the development of advanced manufacturing and strategic emerging industries, vigorously develop modern productive services, promote deep integration of modern services with advanced manufacturing and modern agriculture, advance the integrated cluster development of strategic emerging industries, and build a number of internationally competitive advanced manufacturing clusters. Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, promote intelligent transformation and digitalization of traditional manufacturing, consolidate and enhance advantageous industries, continuously improve the quality of Made in China, and cultivate world-famous brands.

　　Focus on intelligent manufacturing and green manufacturing as the main directions, promoting industrial digitalization and greening transformation.

　　In terms of digitalization, vigorously promote the deep integration of digital technology with the real economy, empower traditional industry transformation and upgrading through digital technology, focus on intelligent manufacturing to advance industrial economic digitalization; foster new industries, new business forms, and new models through digital technology, promote healthy development of platform economy and sharing economy, and advance digital economy industrialization. Deeply implement intelligent manufacturing projects and special actions for digital empowerment of small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote innovative applications of artificial intelligence. Accelerate the construction of a modern infrastructure system, promote new infrastructure construction through effective investment, continue to moderately advance the construction of new information infrastructure such as networks and computing power, accelerate large-scale application of industrial internet, and enhance network security capabilities. In terms of greening, comprehensively promote industrial green development, build a green manufacturing system centered on developing green products, building green factories, developing green parks, and creating green supply chains, and strengthen green supervision. Deeply implement green manufacturing projects, accelerate green transformation and upgrading of manufacturing, integrate green design, green technology and processes, green production, green management, green supply chains, and green employment throughout the product lifecycle. Coordinate carbon peak efforts in key industries, accelerate research and promotion of energy-saving and carbon-reduction technologies, promote green and low-carbon energy consumption, advance efficient resource recycling, vigorously develop resource reuse and remanufacturing industries, and properly recycle and utilize waste resources such as used batteries from new energy vehicles.

　　Unblock the economic circulation and promote quality, efficiency, and driving force transformations in manufacturing development.

　　On one hand, focus on domestic circulation as the main body, cultivate a complete domestic demand system, remove bottlenecks and difficulties in building a unified national market, strengthen the free flow of manufacturing factors and resources, and focus on solving key issues restricting high-level technological and institutional supply. By cultivating a complete domestic demand system, create and lead new demand, and improve the efficiency of manufacturing factor allocation by increasing the supply of high-quality products and services. Fully promote coordinated urban-rural and regional development, expand the coverage of domestic circulation, guide reasonable industrial layout through the main functional area strategy and new urbanization strategy, better utilize the roles of various parks such as high-tech zones and industrial parks, and promote the formation of a regionally complementary and high-quality manufacturing layout. On the other hand, promote mutual reinforcement of domestic and international dual circulation, make good use of both domestic and international markets and resources, expand manufacturing development space through high-level opening-up, strongly support enterprises in expanding international markets, more vigorously guide foreign investment towards advanced manufacturing and high-tech industries, continuously improve services and guarantees for foreign-invested enterprises, and gradually build an open technological innovation ecosystem. Emphasize the key role of free trade pilot zones in promoting high-quality manufacturing development, making them high-level hubs for independent innovation, high-quality production factors, and high-standard rule testing.