China manufacturing superpower by 2049?

China Manufacturing 2025 (CM2025)

  • China’s plans to develop 10 industries
  • State support – hundreds of billions of dollars
  • Indigenous innovation – self-sufficiency
  • China as global manufacturing power by 2049

Goals for developing ten industries

  • Next generation IT
  • High-end numerical control machinery and robotics
  • Aerospace and aviation equipment
  • Maritime engineering equipment and high-tech maritime vessel manufacturing
  • Advanced rail equipment
  • Energy-saving vehicles and NEVs
  • Electrical equipment
  • Agricultural machinery and equipment
  • New materials
  • Biopharmaceuticals and high-performance medical devices

Key targets outlined in CM2025

  • By 2020 – 40% of basic components and basic materials to be domestically manufactured – rising to 70% by 2025
  • By 2025 – 30% reduction in operating costs, production cycles and product defect rates – rising to 50% by 2025.
  • 15 innovation centres to be established by 2020, with this number rising to 40 by 2025.

(European Union Chamber of Commerce in China – China Manufacturing 2025)

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