Made in China 2025

Made in China 2025 is a national plan which aims at upgrading Chinese manufacturing and making the country a leading tech innovator and producer. The plan identifies nine paths to achieving its ambitions:Enhancing innovation capability. The aim is to create a national innovation system in which enterprises lead, government provides services and support for key technology R&D, and research outcomes from academia can be efficiently commercialised.Promoting digitalisation. Digitalised manufacturing is the aim, and this covers not only equipment, such as computer numerical control machine tools and robotics, but also intelligent manufacturing processes and related infrastructures.Focusing on the basics. Four “basics”, as they are called in Made in China 2025, are: basic components, basic processing technologies, basic materials, and basic industrial services.Boosting quality and building brands. Quality management, inspection and standards will be introduced to address quality issues. Also addressed are efforts to raise awareness of branding and support to agencies for brand management and marketing.Making manufacturing greener. This consists of applying green technologies to traditional manufacturing sectors while developing low-carbon industries such as new materials and biotechnology, promoting resource recycling, creating green supply chains and logistics, and reinforcing greener standards and environmental inspections.Targeting priority technologies and products. These priorities include ICTs, numerical control tools and robotics, aerospace equipment, ocean engineering equipment and high-tech ships, railway equipment, energy-saving vehicles, power equipment, agricultural machinery, new materials, biological medicine and medical devices.Restructuring industry. This path aims to deal with applications of new technologies in enterprises, overcapacity, co-ordination between large enterprises and SMEs, and industrial planning at regional level.Developing manufacturing as a service and services for manufacturing. This path aims to help manufacturing extend the value chain and develop and sell both products and services. Services for manufacturing range from logistics and human resources to IP services and after-sales services. Services for adopting ICTs and mobile Internet business are emphasised.Opening for international co-operation. This path seeks to help Chinese companies invest and do business abroad, while attracting to China more foreign investments in high-tech industries and global research centres.For these nine paths, Made in China 2025 identifies eight directions for implementation. These relate to system reform, fair market competition, finance, tax, human resources, SMEs, international openness, and co-ordination mechanisms.

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