Recently, factories across various regions have been bustling with activity.<\/p>\n
In a manufacturing enterprise in Chongqing, robotic arms operate collaboratively, intelligent robots precisely deliver components, and smart large screens display real-time production operational data. A company official explained that they are currently operating at full capacity to ensure quality and quantity in meeting customer orders.<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of this year, local authorities have been actively safeguarding the production and development of enterprises, promoting the implementation of major projects, and generating effective investments. On February 18th, Zhejiang Province kicked off its 2024 “Thousand Projects, Trillion Yuan” initiative with a total investment of 977 billion yuan; on the same day, Jiangxi Province launched major projects for the first quarter of 2024, totaling 680.5 billion yuan; during the Spring Festival, projects like the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor continued without halting work or production…<\/p>\n
Data from January shows that China’s Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) was 49.2%, up 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, indicating a recovery in the industry’s vitality. The PMI for large enterprises was 50.4%, up 0.4 percentage points, staying above the critical point.<\/p>\n
From the perspective of different indices, in January, the production index was 51.3%, up 1.1 percentage points from the previous month, reflecting a recovery in manufacturing production vitality; the supplier delivery time index was 50.8%, up 0.5 percentage points, indicating that the delivery times of manufacturing raw material suppliers continue to accelerate.<\/p>\n
Jin Zhuanglong, the Minister of Industry and Information Technology, stated that China is the world’s largest manufacturing nation, with the added value of the manufacturing industry accounting for about 30% of the global share, ranking first globally for 14 consecutive years. The initiative for high-quality development of key industrial chains in manufacturing has been launched, with a batch of high-end, intelligent, and green new pillar industries rapidly emerging. Major innovative achievements continue to emerge, with more small and medium-sized enterprises embarking on the path of specialized and innovative development. The pace of strengthening the manufacturing industry continues to accelerate, with the industrial structure being upgraded swiftly, the export structure continuously improving, and the regional layout constantly being optimized.<\/p>\n
Experts believe that in 2024, despite the still severe and complex external and internal environments, China possesses comprehensive advantages such as a complete industrial system, a super-large market scale, and a well-established information infrastructure. These factors ensure that the long-term positive economic trend remains unchanged, and the manufacturing industry will accelerate its development towards high-end, intelligent, and green processes.<\/p>\n
“We regard the green transformation of traditional industries as a top priority in our own development, continuously enhancing the level of industrial intelligence and digitalization,” said an official from the Linyi Economic Development Zone in Shandong Province. This area focuses on traditional industries like chemical fertilizers, machinery manufacturing, and steel pipe processing, seizing opportunities brought by new technologies such as 5G, the industrial internet, and intelligent manufacturing to accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of industries.<\/p>\n
Across the country, various regions are actively promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, with clear roadmaps and tasks for industrial transformation and upgrading set for this year. For instance, Guangdong will promote digital transformation in 9,200 large-scale industrial enterprises and foster over 250 provincial-level manufacturing champion enterprises; Ningxia will build 20 new industrial internet platforms and add 1,000 new cloud-based enterprises; Liaoning will implement a program to nurture and strengthen technology-based enterprises…<\/p>\n
Experts indicate that traditional industries, which account for over 80% of the manufacturing sector, form the foundation of China\u2019s status as the world\u2019s leading manufacturing powerhouse. Promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industries is a strategic choice to actively adapt to and lead a new round of technological revolutions and industrial transformations.<\/p>\n
Tao Qing, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau, introduced that since the 18th National Congress, China’s manufacturing industry has been accelerating its digital transformation, continually enhancing its level, and hastening the pace of its green and low-carbon transformation and upgrading. By the end of 2023, China had cultivated 421 national-level demonstration factories, over ten thousand provincial-level digital workshops and intelligent factories, and a cumulative total of 5,095 green factories at the national level.<\/p>\n
For 2024, China aims to newly cultivate 1,000 green factories at the national level, improve the green manufacturing service system, and pilot the implementation of “enterprise green codes.” It will fully leverage the national industrial and financial cooperation platform to actively create green consumption scenarios in areas like new energy vehicles and green appliances.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, along with the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments, jointly issued the “Guidelines on Accelerating the Transformation and Upgrading of Traditional Manufacturing,” which outline a series of measures from “adhering to innovation-driven development, quickly moving towards the middle and high end of the value chain,” “accelerating the empowerment of digital technology, comprehensively promoting intelligent manufacturing,” “strengthening green and low-carbon development, thoroughly implementing energy-saving and carbon-reduction transformations,” to “advancing the mutual promotion of industrial integration, and rapidly cultivating new business formats and models.”<\/p>\n
The guidelines propose that by 2027, the level of high-end, intelligent, green, and integrated development of traditional manufacturing industries will be significantly enhanced, effectively supporting the manufacturing industry to maintain a basic stability in its proportion, and further consolidating and enhancing its position and competitiveness in the global division of labor. The popularization rate of industrial enterprises’ digital R&D design tools and the numerical control rate of key processes will exceed 90% and 70%, respectively, and the intensity of industrial energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions will continue to decline.<\/p>\n
“Applying real-time monitoring, simulation, intelligent control, intelligent decision-making, and system optimization digital technologies can effectively promote the upgrading of traditional industry production and operation models, achieving quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, pollution reduction, and carbon reduction,” said Zhao Weidong, director of the Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Research Institute at the China Electronics Information Industry Development Academy.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that it will place greater importance on transforming and upgrading traditional industries, allowing traditional industries to “sprout new branches from old trees.” It will increase financial support for technology transformations in manufacturing enterprises, implement tax incentives and special re-lending policies, perfect enterprise technical transformation standards, and promote equipment updates, process upgrades, management innovations, and digital empowerment. Implementing the manufacturing technology transformation and upgrading project will focus on key industries such as steel, non-ferrous metals, and light industry, widely applying digital and intelligent technologies and green technologies, and promoting large-scale technology transformations and equipment updates.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s first large cruise ship “AIDA Magic Capital” has completed its maiden commercial voyage, and China’s large passenger plane C919 has flown abroad for the first time to participate in an air show… Since the beginning of this year, there has been frequent good news from Chinese manufacturing, with major equipment drawing global attention, and a large batch of scientific and technological innovation achievements integrating into the production and life of the people.<\/p>\n
In the context of insufficient global economic growth momentum, exports of “new three items” such as new energy vehicles have performed brilliantly, becoming a vivid portrayal of the quality improvement and upgrade of China’s manufacturing industry.<\/p>\n
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers announced that in January 2024, China’s automobile production and sales volumes reached 2.41 million units and 2.439 million units, respectively, an increase of 51.2% and 47.9% year-over-year, respectively. Among them, the production and sales volumes of new energy vehicles reached 787,000 units and 729,000 units, respectively, an increase of 85.3% and 78.8% year-over-year, respectively, with a market share of 29.9%. Related research shows that in 2024, China’s automotive industry can achieve stable growth in production and sales, and new energy vehicles will also continue to maintain a good development trend.<\/p>\n
Now, Chinese manufacturing is accelerating its transformation to Chinese creation, displaying greater resilience and potential in continuous innovation.<\/p>\n
The Central Economic Work Conference pointed out that it is necessary to promote industry innovation with technological innovation, especially by using disruptive technologies and cutting-edge technologies to give birth to new industries, new models, and new drivers, and develop new quality productive forces.<\/p>\n
According to data from the World Intellectual Property Organization, China’s innovation index has risen from 29th place globally in 2011 to 12th place in 2023. Currently, China has formed strategic emerging industries including new generation information technology, biotechnology, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, new energy vehicles, and green environmental protection industries, with strategic emerging industries accounting for about 13% of GDP.<\/p>\n
In January of this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and seven other departments jointly issued the “Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Innovation and Development of Future Industries,” implementing national key projects and major scientific and technological tackling projects in the key directions of future industries, and accelerating breakthroughs in key core technologies.<\/p>\n
Experts believe that the current new round of scientific and technological revolutions and industrial transformations is accelerating, major cutting-edge technologies and disruptive technologies continue to emerge, and the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial development is deepening, giving birth to new industry development directions such as humanoid robots, brain-computer interfaces, and quantum information. China has comprehensive advantages such as a complete<\/p>\n
industrial system, a large industrial scale, and rich application scenarios, providing a rich soil for the development of future industries.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that this year, while fully promoting the steady growth of the industrial economy, it will focus on promoting industry innovation with technological innovation, such as building a batch of national manufacturing innovation centers in key areas, and initiating the creation of national new industrialization demonstration zones.<\/p>\n
“In addition to continuing to increase basic research, we should focus on market demand and industry applications, strengthen targeted application R&D, encourage upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to jointly innovate, make greater efforts to stimulate the innovative main body status of enterprises, and accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces,” said Guan Bing, director of the Industrial Economy Research Institute at the China Electronics Information Industry Development Academy.<\/p>\n
Jin Zhuanglong stated that it is necessary to coordinate technological innovation, large-scale development, and application scenario construction, actively develop new quality productive forces, and strive to seize the high ground in global industrial competition. Cultivate more new pillar industries and new tracks. Make good use of the domestic large market and rich application scenarios, develop and expand emerging industries such as new energy, new materials, and intelligent connected vehicles, promote the large-scale application of Beidou in the communication field and the consumer field, and actively cultivate new growth points such as bio-manufacturing, commercial aerospace, and the low-altitude economy. Proactively layout future industries. Promote the research and development and application promotion of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, the metaverse, 6G, and quantum information, and build new advantages for future development.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1. Resurgence in Manufacturing Industry Vitality Recently, factories across various regions have been bustling with activity. In a manufacturing enterprise in Chongqing, robotic arms operate collaboratively, intelligent robots precisely deliver components, and smart large screens display real-time production operational data. A company official explained that they are currently operating at full capacity to ensure quality and quantity in meeting customer orders. Since the beginning of this year, local authorities have been actively safeguarding the production and development of enterprises, promoting the implementation of major projects, and generating effective investments. On February 18th, Zhejiang Province kicked off its 2024 “Thousand Projects, Trillion Yuan” initiative with a total investment of 977 billion yuan; on the same day, Jiangxi Province launched major projects for the first quarter of 2024, totaling 680.5 billion yuan; during the Spring Festival, projects like the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor continued without halting work or production… Data from January shows that China’s Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) was 49.2%, up 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, indicating a recovery in the industry’s vitality. The PMI for large enterprises was 50.4%, up 0.4 percentage points, staying above the critical point. From the perspective of different indices, in January, the production index was 51.3%, up 1.1 percentage points from the previous month, reflecting a recovery in manufacturing production vitality; the supplier delivery time index was 50.8%, up 0.5 percentage points, indicating that the delivery times of manufacturing raw material suppliers continue to accelerate. Jin Zhuanglong, the Minister of Industry and Information Technology, stated that China is the world’s largest manufacturing nation, with the added value of the manufacturing industry accounting for about 30% of the global share, ranking first globally for 14 consecutive years. The initiative for high-quality development of key industrial chains in manufacturing has been launched, with a batch of high-end, intelligent, and green new pillar industries rapidly emerging. Major innovative achievements continue to emerge, with more small and medium-sized enterprises embarking on the path of specialized and innovative development. The pace of strengthening the manufacturing industry continues to accelerate, with the industrial structure being upgraded swiftly, the export structure continuously improving, and the regional layout constantly being optimized. Experts believe that in 2024, despite the still severe and complex external and internal environments, China possesses comprehensive advantages such as a complete industrial system, a super-large market scale, and a well-established information infrastructure. These factors ensure that the long-term positive economic trend remains unchanged, and the manufacturing industry will accelerate its development towards high-end, intelligent, and green processes. \u00a02. Rejuvenating Traditional Industries “We regard the green transformation of traditional industries as a top priority in our own development, continuously enhancing the level of industrial intelligence and digitalization,” said an official from the Linyi Economic Development Zone in Shandong Province. This area focuses on traditional industries like chemical fertilizers, machinery manufacturing, and steel pipe processing, seizing opportunities brought by new technologies such as 5G, the industrial internet, and intelligent manufacturing to accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of industries. Across the country, various regions are actively promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, with clear roadmaps and tasks for industrial transformation and upgrading set for this year. For instance, Guangdong will promote digital transformation in 9,200 large-scale industrial enterprises and foster over 250 provincial-level manufacturing champion enterprises; Ningxia will build 20 new industrial internet platforms and add 1,000 new cloud-based enterprises; Liaoning will implement a program to nurture and strengthen technology-based enterprises… Experts indicate that traditional industries, which account for over 80% of the manufacturing sector, form the foundation of China\u2019s status as the world\u2019s leading manufacturing powerhouse. Promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industries is a strategic choice to actively adapt to and lead a new round of technological revolutions and industrial transformations. Tao Qing, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau, introduced that since the 18th National Congress, China’s manufacturing industry has been accelerating its digital transformation, continually enhancing its level, and hastening the pace of its green and low-carbon transformation and upgrading. By the end of 2023, China had cultivated 421 national-level demonstration factories, over ten thousand provincial-level digital workshops and intelligent factories, and a cumulative total of 5,095 green factories at the national level. For 2024, China aims to newly cultivate 1,000 green factories at the national level, improve the green manufacturing service system, and pilot the implementation of “enterprise green codes.” It will fully leverage the national industrial and financial cooperation platform to actively create green consumption scenarios in areas like new energy vehicles and green appliances. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, along with the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments, jointly issued the “Guidelines on Accelerating the Transformation and Upgrading of Traditional Manufacturing,” which outline a series of measures from “adhering to innovation-driven development, quickly moving towards the middle and high end of the value chain,” “accelerating the empowerment of digital technology, comprehensively promoting intelligent manufacturing,” “strengthening green and low-carbon development, thoroughly implementing energy-saving and carbon-reduction transformations,” to “advancing the mutual promotion of industrial integration, and rapidly cultivating new business formats and models.” The guidelines propose that by 2027, the level of high-end, intelligent, green, and integrated development of traditional manufacturing industries will be significantly enhanced, effectively supporting the manufacturing industry to maintain a basic stability in its proportion, and further consolidating and enhancing its position and competitiveness in the global division of labor. The popularization rate of industrial enterprises’ digital R&D design tools and the numerical control rate of key processes will exceed 90% and 70%, respectively, and the intensity of industrial energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions will continue to decline. “Applying real-time monitoring, simulation, intelligent control, intelligent decision-making, and system optimization digital technologies can effectively promote the upgrading of traditional industry production and operation models, achieving quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, pollution reduction, and carbon reduction,” said Zhao Weidong, director of the Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Research Institute at the China Electronics<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n