Source: People's Daily.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 19. With the approval of Premier Li Keqiang, the State Council recently issued the 13th Five-Year Plan for the Development of National Strategic Emerging Industries, making comprehensive arrangements for the development goals, key tasks and policy measures for strategic emerging industries during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.
The plan points out that strategic emerging industries represent the direction of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and are key areas for cultivating new development momentum and gaining new advantages in future competition. Strategic emerging industries should be placed in a more prominent position in economic and social development. China should seize the major opportunities brought by the new global scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, follow the requirements for accelerating supply-side structural reform, and take innovation-driven development, scale expansion and upgrading leadership as the core. It should build a modern industrial system, cultivate new development momentum, advance reform, improve innovation capabilities, deepen international cooperation, and accelerate the development and expansion of strategic emerging industries such as next-generation information technology, high-end equipment, new materials, biology, new energy vehicles, new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, and digital creativity. This will promote the flourishing of new technologies, products, business forms and models in broader fields, build China into a manufacturing power, develop modern services, move industries toward the medium and high end, and strongly support the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
The plan proposes that by 2020, the added value of strategic emerging industries should account for 15 percent of GDP. Five new pillar industries, each with an output value of around RMB 10 trillion, should be formed in next-generation information technology, high-end manufacturing, biology, green and low-carbon development, and digital creativity. A large number of new growth points based on cross-sector integration should also be formed in broader fields, driving more than one million new jobs on average each year. The industrial structure should be further optimized, industrial innovation capability and competitiveness should be significantly improved, and a new global highland for industrial development should be formed.
The plan sets out eight development tasks. First, promote leapfrog development of the information technology industry and expand new space for the network economy. Second, promote breakthrough development in high-end equipment and new materials, leading a new leap for Chinese manufacturing. Third, accelerate innovation in the biological industry and cultivate new momentum for the bioeconomy. Fourth, promote rapid growth of new energy vehicles, new energy, and energy conservation and environmental protection industries, building a new sustainable development model. Fifth, promote the vigorous development of digital creative industries and create new consumption leadership. Sixth, make forward-looking arrangements for strategic industries and cultivate future development advantages. Seventh, promote clustered development of strategic emerging industries and build a coordinated development pattern. Eighth, advance the open development of strategic emerging industries and expand new paths for international cooperation.
The plan also proposes six policy support measures, including improving management methods, building an industrial innovation system, strengthening intellectual property protection and application, deepening military-civilian integration, increasing financial and fiscal support, and strengthening talent development and incentives. It lays out 21 major projects, including integrated circuit development, artificial intelligence innovation, biotechnology for public benefit, high-proportion new energy development, and innovation and upgrading of technology and equipment for digital cultural creativity. It requires all regions and relevant departments to attach great importance to the development of strategic emerging industries, ensure implementation of the plan, and strengthen coordination between special plans, local plans and this plan.
Editor: Ou Yunhai.