General Secretary Xi Jinping said that the manufacturing industry is the very foundation for building China and improving its strength, and the lifeblood of the national economy, emphasizing that we should put our focus on the real economy to steadfastly make it and the manufacturing industry better and stronger. In face of severe and complicated economic situations both at home and abroad, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has earnestly implemented the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, upheld the underlying principle of promoting progress while ensuring stability, and taken steps to fulfill the tasks of ensuring stability on the six fronts and security in six areas in earnest. We have strengthened and improved industrial management, and actively responded to external shocks and impacts, in order to maintain stable industrial economy and a generally steady proportion of the manufacturing, so as to build a stronger foundation for stabilizing the overall economy with full efforts. From 2012 to 2021, the industrial added value of China grew from RMB20.9 trillion to RMB37.3 trillion. Calculated at constant prices, the annual industrial added value increased by 6.3% on average, much higher than that of the world average, which was about 2% during the same period. In the meantime, the added value of the manufacturing industry increased from RMB16.98 trillion to RMB31.4 trillion, with its proportion in the world total rising from 22.5% to nearly 30%. Some 60% of the raw materials, such as crude steel, cement, electrolytic aluminum and methyl alcohol are produced by China. Regarding the output of new products such as smart phones, computers, TVs and industrial robots, we are also the top one in the world. In addition, our products have continuously improved their international competitiveness, and the export of our industrial products have covered almost every country and region around the world. The trade of intermediate goods in the manufacturing industry accounts for about 20% of the world, and our communications equipment, high-speed rail and shipping have had a prominent edge in international competition. The sense of gain of the people has increased significantly with, for example, the universal access to smart home appliances, the availability of functional fiber products and bio-based fiber products to families, and higher car ownership per 1,000 people, which went up from 89 in 2012 to 208 in 2021. 

2. Enhance the advantage in having a complete industrial system and improve the resilience and competitiveness of industrial chain and supply chain

General Secretary Xi has emphasized that the industrial chain and supply chain should not drop the ball at a critical moment, and we should do a good job in industrial base upgrading and industrial chain modernization, and maintain a complete industrial system in the world. Based on China’s advantages in industrial scale, industrial supporting and as a first mover in some fields, we have made an overall plan to tackle our weaknesses and bring out our strengths, and implemented the industrial foundation reengineering projects and actions on reinforcing and upgrading the chains in manufacturing, to keep improving the resilience and competitiveness of the industrial chain and supply chain. The basic industrial capacity has been continuously enhanced, with scale application of a number of key basic products and materials, such as rail traffic, power equipment, aluminum alloy for aerospace use, and high-performance fibers and composite materials, and higher reliability, consistency and stability of basic products. With the aim to enhance the supply capacity of generic technologies, we established 22 national manufacturing innovation centers, including those for power batteries and additive manufacturing, and 2 national-local jointly built manufacturing innovation centers for silicon-based hybrid integration. Besides, we promoted the building of over 200 provincial manufacturing innovation centers, and supported the building of 125 basic public service platforms for industrial technologies. Emerging industries have accelerated their development. New products, such as serving robots, charging piles and smart wearable devices, have grown with strong momentum. In 2021, the output of new energy vehicles reached 3.545 million, while the output value of our new materials industry has doubled. The industrial system is more comprehensive, with 41 two-digit, 207 three-digit and 666 four-digit industries, making China the only country in the world that has all the industrial divisions under the United Nations’ industrial classification. In response to the impact of the COVID-19, we solved the shortage of medical protective clothing, masks, medical equipment, drugs, test kits and other epidemic prevention supplies in the shortest time. Up to May 2022, China had provided 4.6 billion sets of protective clothing, COVID-19 test kits for 18 billion people, more than 430 billion masks, and 2.2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 153 countries and 15 international organizations.

3. Concrete results have been made in industrial restructuring, and China manufacturing has moved faster towards the middle- and high-end of the global value chain