en.Wedoany.com Reported - Liu Ruiming, a professor at the National Academy of Development and Strategy, pointed out that advanced manufacturing is a crucial pillar of the real economy and the backbone of a modern industrial system. The outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan" clearly proposes building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone. China must deeply grasp the development characteristics and evolution laws of advanced manufacturing, and promote the deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries.
Liu Ruiming analyzed that China's manufacturing industry is currently in a critical period of breaking through the "low-end lock-in" and achieving a leap from the middle and low end to the high end of the global value chain. The overall scale of China's manufacturing industry has ranked first in the world for 16 consecutive years, with its added value accounting for nearly 30% of the global total in 2025. Advanced manufacturing has become the field with the most intensive scientific and technological innovation activities and the richest innovation achievements. In the first quarter of 2026, the added value of China's digital product manufacturing industry above designated size increased by 11.2% year-on-year, 5.1 percentage points higher than the growth rate of all industries above designated size.
The development of China's advanced manufacturing faces challenges such as bottlenecks in key core technologies and a low degree of matching between factor supply and industrial demand. In 2025, China's basic research expenditure accounted for 7.08% of total R&D expenditure, which still lags behind the 10% to 15% level seen in developed countries. According to the forecast of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, China's talent gap in the field of intelligent manufacturing will reach 4.5 million people.
China will take strengthening independent innovation as the strategic support for developing advanced manufacturing, focusing on areas such as integrated circuits, industrial machine tools, high-end instruments, basic software, and advanced materials to implement high-quality development actions for key manufacturing industry chains. China will deeply implement the "AI Plus Manufacturing" initiative, accelerate the construction of zero-carbon factories and zero-carbon industrial parks, and cultivate world-class advanced manufacturing clusters.
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