China's MIIT launches 'AI + Manufacturing' initiative to accelerate smart industry
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On September 18, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) held meetings to study and implement President Xi Jinping's instructions on developing advanced manufacturing. The meetings emphasized strengthening execution and coordinating high-quality development with high-level security. Key measures include accelerating breakthroughs in core technologies, launching new initiatives for key manufacturing supply chains, and building a self-reliant industrial innovation system. The MIIT specifically announced the implementation of an 'AI + Manufacturing' initiative to accelerate next-generation smart manufacturing. Other priorities include promoting greenification and integration, carrying out energy-saving and carbon-reduction actions, developing service-oriented manufacturing, and fostering deep integration between advanced manufacturing and modern services. The ministry also aims to consolidate the advantages of China's complete industrial system, upgrade traditional industries, grow emerging and future industries, establish outstanding 'Made in China' brands, and nurture world-class advanced manufacturing clusters.
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Jin10 Data, September 18 — On the morning of September 18, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) convened a meeting of its Party leadership group and a separate cadre assembly to study and implement President Xi Jinping’s important instructions on developing advanced manufacturing, as well as the spirit of the National Conference on Advanced Manufacturing. The meetings also formulated measures for implementation.
Key Priorities and Actions
The meetings emphasized the need to strengthen execution, take on new responsibilities, and pursue new actions to solidly advance key tasks in developing advanced manufacturing. Specific priorities include:
- Coordinating high-quality development with high-level security
- Promoting deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation
- Accelerating breakthroughs in key core technologies in priority fields
- Launching a new round of high-quality development initiatives for key manufacturing supply chains
- Building a highly self-reliant and self-strengthening industrial innovation system
Strategic Directions
The meetings stressed adherence to the directions of intelligentization, greenification, and integration, including:
- Implementing the "AI + Manufacturing" initiative
- Accelerating the development of next-generation smart manufacturing
- Deeply carrying out energy-saving and carbon-reduction actions and plans to upgrade and expand green factories
- Innovatively developing service-oriented manufacturing
- Promoting deep integration between advanced manufacturing and modern service industries
Industrial System and Brand Development
Furthermore, the meetings called for efforts to:
- Consolidate and enhance the advantages of the complete industrial system
- Coordinate efforts to upgrade traditional industries, grow emerging industries, and cultivate future industries
- Establish a number of outstanding "Made in China" brands
- Nurture world-class clusters of advanced manufacturing
(Source: MIIT Micro Report)
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