On the afternoon of March 1st, The State Council of China held a press conference on the theme of "Opening Remarks of authoritative departments". Minister of Industry and Information Technology Jin Zhuanglong introduced the achievements and latest measures of "accelerating new industrialization to strengthen, improve and expand the real economy".

We will accelerate the development of a modern industrial system

Manufacturing is the foundation of the real economy and an important field in building a modern industrial system. The major technical equipment of high stature is "sky", and the industrial base that plays the role of basic support is "ground". To make manufacturing stronger and better, we must not only "stand on the sky" but also "stand on the ground".

For 10 years, our manufacturing industry system has been formed with a large scale, complete system and strong competitiveness. "We will consolidate the advantages of the complete industrial system, keep the share of manufacturing basically stable, and speed up the development of a modern industrial system by forging long boards, shoring up weak ones and strengthening the foundation," he said. "Said Jin Zhuanglong.

Transform and upgrade traditional industries. Traditional industries are the basis of the modern industrial system, accounting for more than 80% of the manufacturing industry. Going forward, we will vigorously promote the technological upgrading and equipment upgrading of enterprises, popularize advanced and applicable technologies, and promote the modernization of processes and high-end products. We will carry out a campaign to "increase varieties, improve quality and create brands" in the manufacturing industry to improve product quality and brand benefits. We will carry out intelligent manufacturing projects, accelerate the development of service-oriented manufacturing, and vigorously develop producer services. We will implement the plan for peaking industrial carbon, promote green manufacturing across the board, and raise the level of green and low-carbon development. We will encourage the adoption of market-oriented and law-based approaches, accelerate mergers and reorganizations in key industries, and increase industrial concentration.

We will consolidate industries that extend our advantages. China has developed distinctive strengths in high-speed railways, shipping, electric power equipment, engineering machinery and communications equipment. Its output of key products such as personal computers, mobile phones, household appliances and solar panels accounts for more than half of the global total. We will vigorously carry out projects to rebuild the industrial base and tackle key technologies and equipment, consolidate and improve the advantages of the whole industrial chain, and create a number of made-in-China business cards. We will give play to the principal role of enterprises, support leading enterprises in becoming stronger and better, and foster a number of world-class enterprises. In addition, a special action will be carried out to develop advanced manufacturing clusters, focusing on key areas such as construction machinery, rail transit, optoelectronic information, energy and power equipment, textile and apparel, and building world-class advanced manufacturing clusters.

We will foster and strengthen emerging industries. We will focus on key areas such as 5G, artificial intelligence, biological manufacturing, industrial Internet, green and low-carbon, and constantly enrich and expand new application scenarios. We will expand the distribution of national manufacturing innovation centers in emerging industries. We will implement the "robot Plus" application action to promote the large-scale and intensive development of the Internet of Things industry.

Forward-looking layout of future industries. The future industry is an important way to seize the opportunity of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and achieve leading development. Jin Zhuanglong said that the next step will be to formulate an action plan for future industrial development, accelerate the layout of humanoid robots, meta-universe, quantum technology and other frontier fields, and comprehensively promote the research and development of 6G technology. "We will encourage local governments to take the lead and accelerate the layout of future industries."

The intelligent development of manufacturing industry has achieved remarkable results

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the application scale and development level of intelligent manufacturing in China have been greatly improved, and the intelligent development of manufacturing industry has achieved remarkable results, which has strongly supported the high-quality development of industrial economy. Currently, more than 2,100 high-level digital workshops and smart factories have been built in China.

"We will stick to the main direction of intelligent manufacturing, promote industrial technological transformation, optimization and upgrading, and use intelligence to reshape the manufacturing industry model and enterprise form." Said Xin Guobin, vice minister of Industry and Information Technology.

We will carry out multi-level application promotion. We will build world-class smart factories and smart supply chains for key industries. For small and medium-sized enterprises, large-scale implementation of targeted solutions such as process optimization, lean management and process reengineering. We will build a number of pilot zones for intelligent manufacturing in key provinces and cities, and explore ways and models of development with regional characteristics.

We will accelerate breakthroughs in integrated technologies. We will intensify efforts to tackle key manufacturing technologies such as complex designs and advanced technologies, organize and mobilize forces from all sectors, give play to the dominant role of enterprises, and achieve fundamental and strategic breakthroughs. We focused on developing and popularizing applicable technologies such as artificial intelligence and digital twinning, and achieved original and forward-looking results. Juli promotes the software of industrial knowledge, and develops a batch of basic industrial software and core process package.

Strengthen basic support capacity. We will study and formulate policies and measures to promote the development of digital equipment, and support the construction of digital China through innovation in smart equipment. We will open up the major arteries of digital infrastructure, accelerate the large-scale deployment and application of 5G and the industrial Internet, improve the system of smart manufacturing standards, deepen the application of basic standards, take an active part in international exchanges and cooperation, and raise the level of smart development in all fields.

Modern information technology benefits the masses

China will build the world's largest and technologically advanced 5G network. China now has more than 2.31 million 5G base stations, and 5G networks cover all prefecture-level cities, county towns and urban areas. The increasing supply capacity of 5G networks will play a major leading role in building a complete industrial chain covering systems, chips and terminals. Going forward, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will continue to improve the depth and breadth of 5G network coverage, further deepen network co-construction and sharing, and vigorously promote the application of 5G technology and product application results into all walks of life in the economy and society. In particular, we need to promote the "5G+ industrial Internet" to further integrate the manufacturing industry, expand to all aspects of production, and raise the overall level of digital, networked and intelligent manufacturing.

We will provide gigabit access to every city, broadband access to every village, and 5G access to every county. Gigabit optical networks already have the capacity to reach more than 500 million homes. The project of "counting in the East and counting in the West" has been fully launched, gradually building a computing infrastructure application system that integrates "counting, storage and transportation". The total scale of data center racks in use in China has exceeded 6.5 million standard racks and 20 million servers, ranking the second in the world in terms of total computing power. Subsequently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will carry out the Gigabit optical network "Light Pursuit Action" to strengthen cross-industry, cross-enterprise and cross-regional network collaborative innovation, and support the transformation of traditional industries to digital, networked and intelligent. Small and medium-sized cities and remote rural areas should achieve balanced development of information and communication networks, and promote the construction of "broadband border areas" and cloud networks in small and medium-sized cities, so that modern information technology can benefit the people. At the same time, greater support will be given to computing infrastructure to strengthen computing capabilities, and a network architecture and a computing power supply system featuring integration of cloud and network and computing and network will be built.

Tian Yulong, chief engineer and spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that the next step will be to further promote the comprehensive development of the mobile Internet of things, continue to consolidate the leading edge of network capabilities, and build the ability to support the integration of solid and mobile, broadband and narrow connection. We will continue to expand the application scenarios of the mobile Internet of Things, support the development of digital China and smart cities, and bring information infrastructure to the benefit of the people.