To: Industrial and Information Technology Departments, Education Departments, Science and Technology Departments, Transportation Departments, Culture and Tourism Departments, State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Communication Administration Bureaus, Relevant Central Enterprises, and Other Relevant Units
The future industry, driven by cutting-edge technologies, is currently in its nascent stage or early commercialization phase. It is a forward-looking emerging industry characterized by significant strategic, pioneering, disruptive, and uncertain elements. Promoting the development of future industries is a strategic choice for leading technological progress, driving industrial upgrades, and cultivating new productive forces. To implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party and the “14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and Long-Term Goals for 2035,” and to grasp the opportunities presented by the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, we propose the following opinions to accelerate the development of future industries, support the advancement of new industrialization, and focus on the main battlefield of manufacturing.
I. Guiding Ideology
Guided by Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress, comprehensively and accurately apply the new development philosophy, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, and coordinate development with security. The main line will be the upgrading of traditional industries and the commercialization of cutting-edge technologies. Innovation will be the driving force, with enterprises as the main body, scenarios as the traction, and landmark products as the focus. We will follow the laws of technological innovation and industrial development, strengthen forward-looking planning and policy guidance, actively cultivate future industries, and accelerate the formation of new productive forces to provide strong support for national strength construction.
II. Basic Principles
- Forward-looking Deployment and Phased Cultivation: Align with the trends of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and systematically plan and lay out ahead of time, focusing on national major needs and strategic areas. Understand the development rules of future industries, cultivate them in phases, and adjust dynamically.
- Innovation-Driven and Application-Driven: Lead the development of future industries through breakthroughs in cutting-edge technologies, strengthening original and disruptive technological innovations. Drive development through scenarios, linking research and development with application, and accelerating the process of industrialization.
- Ecological Coordination and Systematic Promotion: Gather resources from government, industry, academia, research, and application sectors, integrate elements such as capital, talent, technology, and data, and create an industrial ecosystem with deep integration of innovation chains, industrial chains, capital chains, and talent chains.
- Open Cooperation and Safe Orderly Development: Actively participate in global division of labor and cooperation in future industries, deeply integrate into the global innovation network. Coordinate technological innovation with ethical governance, creating an inclusive, prudent, safe, and sustainable development environment.
III. Development Goals
By 2025, achieve comprehensive development in technological innovation, industry cultivation, and safety governance in future industries. Some areas will reach international advanced levels, and the scale of the industry will steadily increase. Establish a number of future industry incubators and pilot zones, break through a hundred key core technologies, form a hundred landmark products, create a hundred leading enterprises, explore a hundred typical application scenarios, formulate a hundred key standards, cultivate a hundred specialized service institutions, and initially form a future industry development model suited to China’s reality.
By 2027, the comprehensive strength of future industries will significantly improve, with some areas achieving global leadership. Major breakthroughs will be made in key core technologies, a number of new technologies, products, business formats, and models will be widely applied, key industries will achieve scaled development, and a group of eco-dominant leading enterprises will be cultivated. A development pattern will be formed that integrates future industries with advantageous, emerging, and traditional industries, creating a sustainable long-term mechanism and becoming a major source of the world’s future industries.
IV. Key Tasks
Comprehensive Layout of Future Industries:
1 . Strengthen forward-looking planning and deployment. Grasp global technological innovation and industrial development trends, focusing on six major areas: future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future energy, future space, and future health. Establish future industry observatories, using technologies like artificial intelligence and advanced computing to accurately identify and cultivate high-potential future industries. Utilize the advantages of the new national system to guide local areas in planning, cultivating, and developing future industries based on their industrial foundation and resource endowments. Use cutting-edge technologies to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, providing new momentum for building a modern industrial system.
Column 1: Forward-Looking Deployment of New Tracks
- Future Manufacturing: Develop intelligent manufacturing, biological manufacturing, nano-manufacturing, laser manufacturing, and circular manufacturing. Breakthrough key technologies such as intelligent control, intelligent sensing, and simulation. Promote flexible manufacturing and shared manufacturing models, and advance developments in industrial internet and industrial metaverse.
- Future Information: Promote the industrial application of next-generation mobile communication, satellite internet, and quantum information technologies. Accelerate innovations in quantum and photonic computing technologies, enhance brain-like intelligence, swarm intelligence, and large models, and cultivate intelligent industries.
- Future Materials: Promote upgrades in advanced basic materials like non-ferrous metals, chemicals, and inorganic non-metals. Develop key strategic materials such as high-performance carbon fiber and advanced semiconductors. Accelerate innovation and application of cutting-edge new materials like superconductors.
- Future Energy: Focus on key areas such as nuclear energy, nuclear fusion, hydrogen energy, and biomass energy. Build a full-chain future energy equipment system covering collection, storage, transportation, and application. Research new types of crystalline silicon and thin-film solar cells and related electronic devices, accelerate the development of new energy storage, and drive the integration and upgrading of the energy electronics industry.
- Future Space: Focus on aerospace, deep-sea, and deep-earth fields. Develop high-end equipment such as manned spacecraft, lunar and Mars exploration, satellite navigation, near-space unmanned systems, and advanced high-efficiency aircraft. Accelerate the development and innovative application of deep-sea submersibles, deep-sea operation equipment, deep-sea search and rescue detection devices, and deep-sea intelligent unmanned platforms. Promote the development of equipment for deep-earth resource exploration, urban underground space development, and polar exploration and operations.
- Future Health: Accelerate the industrialization of cutting-edge technologies like cell and gene technologies, synthetic biology, and biological breeding. Promote new medical services empowered by 5G/6G, metaverse, and artificial intelligence technologies. Develop high-end medical equipment and health products integrating digital twins, brain-computer interaction, and other advanced technologies.
Accelerate Technological Innovation and Industrialization:
2. Enhance innovation capabilities. Implement national key science and technology projects and major technological research programs in key future industry directions, and accelerate breakthroughs in key core technologies. Leverage the role of national and regional key laboratories, and enhance the supply of foundational common technologies. Encourage leading enterprises to lead innovation consortia, gather resources from industry, academia, research, and application, and systematically advance technological breakthroughs in key fields. Promote cross-domain technological integration and disruptive technological breakthroughs, and build a source of original technologies. Host future industry innovation and entrepreneurship competitions to stimulate innovation momentum from all sectors.
3. Promote result transformation. Publish a directory of cutting-edge technology applications, build an online release hall for future industry results, create a product trading platform, and hold result matching exhibitions to promote precise supply-demand matching. Develop new models for technology services and technology markets, select specialized institutions for technology evaluation and transfer, and explore application scenarios and business models. Implement incentive policies for the first sets of major technological equipment and first batches of materials, and accelerate the application and promotion of new technologies and products.
Create Landmark Products:
4. Breakthrough next-generation intelligent terminals. Develop industrial terminal products that adapt to general intelligent trends to improve quality and efficiency in industrial production, and empower new industrialization. Develop consumer-grade terminals that are large-scale, intelligent, convenient, and immersive to meet new demands in digital life, digital culture, and public services. Create smart and elderly-friendly medical health terminals to enhance the health quality of the public. Breakthrough high-level intelligent connected vehicles and metaverse gateways with explosive potential, establishing new competitive advantages in the industry.
5. Optimize information service products. Develop the next-generation operating system, creating a secure and reliable digital foundation. Promote open-source technology, build open-source communities, and establish open-source ecosystems. Explore next-generation internet innovations and digital ecosystems centered around blockchain and data as key elements. Accelerate software product development for new-generation mobile information networks and brain-like intelligence, encourage new product demonstrations, and stimulate information service potential.
6. Strengthen future high-end equipment. Focus on national strategic needs and the need for a better life, accelerate major technological equipment projects, and break through high-end equipment products such as humanoid robots, quantum computers, ultra-high-speed trains, next-generation large aircraft, green smart ships, and unmanned boats. Promote new technology industrialization through complete machines, creating a globally leading high-end equipment system. Deepen industrial base reconstruction, address shortfalls in basic components, parts, materials, processes, and software, and consolidate the foundation for future industry development.
Column 2: Innovative Landmark Products
- Humanoid Robots: Breakthroughs in core technologies such as high-torque-density servo motors, high-dynamic motion planning and control, bionic perception and cognition, intelligent dexterous hands, and electronic skin. The focus is on advancing the development and application of products in smart manufacturing, home services, and operations in specialized environments.
- Quantum Computers: Strengthen the research and development of fault-tolerant general-purpose quantum computing technologies, enhance physical hardware metrics and algorithm error-correction capabilities, promote the integration of quantum software and quantum cloud platforms, and leverage the superiority of quantum computing to explore applications in vertical industries.
- New Display Technologies: Accelerate research on quantum dot displays and holographic displays, achieve breakthroughs in Micro-LED, laser, and printed display technologies, and realize large-scale applications. Enable seamless, fully flexible, 3D stereoscopic display effects, and expedite their promotion in scenarios such as smart terminals, intelligent connected vehicles, remote communication, and cultural content presentation.
- Brain-Computer Interfaces: Achieve breakthroughs in key technologies and core components, such as brain-machine integration, brain-like chips, and brain computing neural models. Develop a series of user-friendly and safe brain-computer interface products, encouraging their exploration in typical applications like medical rehabilitation, autonomous driving, and virtual reality.
- 6G Network Equipment: Conduct research on advanced wireless communications, new network architectures, cross-domain integration, space-air-ground-sea integrated networks, and network and data security technologies. Develop conceptual prototypes of key wireless technologies and create distinctive applications represented by holographic communication and digital twins.
- Ultra-Large-Scale New Intelligent Computing Centers: Accelerate breakthroughs in GPU chips, low-latency interconnection networks for clusters, and heterogeneous resource management technologies. Build ultra-large-scale intelligent computing centers to meet the needs of iterative model training and application inference.
- Third-Generation Internet: Promote pilot applications of the third-generation internet in data exchanges, explore the use of blockchain technology to connect platforms across key industries and sectors, and study the digital identity authentication system of the third-generation internet. Establish data governance and circulation mechanisms, forming replicable and scalable case studies.
- High-End Cultural and Tourism Equipment: Develop specialized and supporting software for cultural and entertainment creation, advance the development of cutting-edge performance and amusement equipment, high-end land, water, and air tourism equipment, immersive experience facilities, and smart tourism systems and monitoring platforms. Foster the development of intelligent, high-end, and integrated cultural and tourism equipment.
- Advanced and Efficient Aviation Equipment: Focus on the development of next-generation large aircraft by achieving breakthroughs in core technologies such as new layouts, intelligent piloting, interconnected avionics, more-electric systems, and open rotor hybrid engines. Promote research into advanced concepts, including supersonic aircraft, ultra-efficient subsonic aircraft, and new energy passenger planes. In response to future smart air traffic needs, accelerate the development and application of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and intelligent and efficient aviation logistics equipment.
- Deep Resource Exploration and Development Equipment: Focusing on deep operations, breakthroughs in key technologies will be driven by high-end resource exploration and development equipment, such as ultra-deep intelligent drilling rig prototypes, subsea production systems for deep-sea oil and gas, and deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining vehicles.
Promote Policy Support and Industry Cultivation:
7. Implement special policies and financial support. Provide preferential policies and financial support for future industry development, including tax incentives, subsidies, and investment funds. Support major future industry research projects and promote the construction of key technology platforms and innovation centers.
8. Strengthen talent cultivation. Establish specialized training programs for future industry professionals, and promote interdisciplinary education and practical training. Attract top talents and experts in cutting-edge fields, and foster innovation and entrepreneurial talent through incentives and support.
9. Develop industry standards and regulations. Formulate and improve industry standards and regulations related to future industries, and enhance industry management and supervision. Strengthen international cooperation in standards, and promote the integration of domestic standards with international standards.
Expanding Application Scenarios:
10. Exploring New Industrialization Scenarios. Focus on key sectors such as equipment, raw materials, and consumer goods, and build application test sites in areas like design, production, testing, and operations and maintenance. Use large-scale iterative applications of products to drive the maturity of future industry technologies. Deepen the integration of next-generation information technology with manufacturing and accelerate the restructuring of industrial chains, processes, and models, creating new applications for future manufacturing. Leverage the diverse scenarios provided by central enterprises to speed up the construction of diversified future manufacturing environments. Promote emerging scenarios such as the industrial metaverse and biomanufacturing, using scenario innovation to drive the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.
11. Creating Cross-Sectoral Integration Scenarios. Relying on major events, promote cross-disciplinary and comprehensive pilot applications of cutting-edge technologies and products, establishing benchmark demonstrations. Leverage major projects like manned space exploration and deep-sea and deep-earth initiatives to accelerate the exploration of innovative applications in future space sectors, aligning with national strategic needs. Rely on the construction of urban clusters and metropolitan areas to create integrated and green industrial-urban scenarios. Innovate future information service scenarios, accelerating the formation of new paradigms for accessible, equal, and smart information services.
12. Building Iconic Scenarios. Regularly select and publish lists of exemplary application scenarios and recommended directories, establishing a repository of outstanding cases and solutions. Guide local regions in developing distinctive benchmark demonstration scenarios, and organize high-level supply and demand matching activities based on these scenarios, accelerating the promotion of new technologies and products. Encourage companies to engage in innovative research and development for application scenarios, and support universities and research institutions in building early-stage experimental scenarios for original and disruptive technologies, leading future technological breakthroughs.
Optimizing the Industrial Support System:
13. Enhancing Standards and Patent Safeguards. Based on future industry development needs, coordinate the standardization development roadmap for future industries and accelerate the development of key standards. Timely conduct training and promotion for key standards, guiding enterprises to meet and surpass benchmarks, and accelerating the application and promotion of future industry standards. Facilitate the coordinated development of standards, patents, and technologies, encouraging enterprises to integrate independent intellectual property rights with technical standards. Improve mechanisms for the creation and reserve of autonomous intellectual property in key fields, deepen cooperation with domestic and international intellectual property organizations, and build a high-quality patent selection, evaluation, and promotion system for future industries.
Column 3: Strengthening Standards Leadership
- Forward-Looking Standards Research: Focus on key areas such as the metaverse, brain-computer interfaces, and quantum information to develop a standardization roadmap. Create standards for foundational general technologies, key technologies, testing methods, critical products, typical applications, and safety and ethics, promoting related standards development at appropriate times.
- Promoting Standards Application Pilots: Organize relevant industry associations, standardization professional institutions, and technical organizations to conduct standards training and promotion in future industry fields based on enterprise development needs. Introduce advanced technologies, concepts, and methods into enterprise research and development, production, and management through standards.
- Deepening International Standards Cooperation: Support domestic enterprises and institutions in actively participating in international standardization activities with organizations like the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Organize upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to jointly promote the development of international standards and explore the establishment of international standardization alliances.
- Building an Intellectual Property System: Establish an intellectual property operation service platform for future industries, conducting intellectual property risk monitoring and assessment. Form intellectual property alliances, create patent pools for key industries, analyze patents along critical industrial chains, and build a high-quality patent selection, evaluation, and promotion system.
14. Developing Mid-Stage Testing Capabilities. Based on industry needs, establish several mid-stage testing and application verification platforms to improve the supply capabilities of precision measurement instruments, high-end testing equipment, and design simulation software. Provide trial environments for verifying critical technologies, accelerating the transformation of new technologies into real productive forces. Build a number of public mid-stage testing service institutions to enhance service levels in engineering development, technology maturation, prototype manufacturing, and testing and verification.
15. Building a Professional Talent Pool. Vigorously cultivate leading entrepreneurs and scientists for future industries, optimizing an innovation and entrepreneurship environment that encourages originality and tolerates failure. Stimulate the innovation vitality of researchers, build several future technology academies, and explore new models for cultivating interdisciplinary innovation talents. Strengthen the joint training of talent between schools and enterprises, expand channels for attracting overseas talent, and intensify efforts to introduce high-level talent in frontier fields.
16. Strengthening New Infrastructure. Deeply advance the construction of 5G, computing infrastructure, industrial internet, Internet of Things, vehicle-to-everything networks, and gigabit optical networks. Forward-plan research into key technologies such as 6G, satellite internet, and direct satellite-to-mobile communication, building a new digital infrastructure characterized by high speed, ubiquity, integrated interconnectivity, intelligence, green efficiency, and security. Encourage major scientific infrastructure to support future industries, deepening the sharing of facilities, equipment, and data, and accelerating the application of frontier technologies. Promote the integration of next-generation information technology with traditional infrastructure sectors such as transportation, energy, and water resources, developing the digital economy of highways, and accelerating the digital transformation of infrastructure.
V: Safeguard Measures
(I) Strengthening Overall Coordination: Under the leadership of the Central Science and Technology Committee and in accordance with the requirements of the National Manufacturing Power Construction Leading Group, form an inter-ministerial coordination and central-local collaboration working structure. Use policy implementation guidelines to develop specialized policy documents for professional fields such as brain-computer interfaces and quantum information, forming a comprehensive future industry policy system. Utilize the role of industry associations and other social organizations to promote advanced case studies and create a positive environment for advancing the future industry.
(II) Increasing Financial Support: Promote increased investment from manufacturing transformation and upgrading funds, the National SME Development Fund, and other sources. Implement special programs for the integration of science, industry, and finance, driving more capital into early-stage, small-scale, and hard-tech investments. Improve financial and tax support policies, encouraging policy banks and financial institutions to increase their investments, guiding local governments to establish special funds for future industries, and exploring the establishment of risk compensation funds and optimizing risk reserve compensation mechanisms.
(III) Strengthening Security Governance: Uphold an inclusive and prudent governance philosophy, exploring cross-departmental joint governance models and creating a multi-party participation and efficient collaboration governance framework for future industries. Strengthen research on ethical standards, scientifically delineate “red lines” and “bottom lines,” and build an integrated mechanism for identification, evaluation, defense, and governance. Encourage enterprises to establish self-regulatory mechanisms for data management and product development, improve safety monitoring, early warning, and emergency response measures, and mitigate risks associated with the application of frontier technologies.
(IV) Deepening International Cooperation: Utilize mechanisms such as the Belt and Road Initiative to encourage domestic enterprises and research institutions to go global and participate deeply in the global division of labor for future industries. Encourage multinational companies and foreign research institutions to establish advanced technology research centers in China and promote joint technology research and industrial application between domestic and foreign enterprises. Host global forums on future industry development and form international innovation alliances for future industries. Strengthen cooperation with relevant international organizations, actively participate in the formulation of international governance rules and standards, and contribute Chinese products, solutions, and wisdom.
-Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MIIT)
-Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (MOE)
-Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MOST)
-Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China (MOT)
-Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China (MCT)
-State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (SASAC)
-Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
January 18, 2024
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