By Staff Reporters

Chinese President Xi Jinping has made an important instruction on advancing the new industrialization to lay a strong material and technological foundation for Chinese modernization. His instruction was read out at a national meeting on pushing forward the new industrialization held on September 22-23 in Beijing.

Xi called for efforts to adapt to and lead the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, seek high-quality development in promotion of new industrialization, and integrate the construction of a manufacturing powerhouse with the development of the digital economy and industrial informatization, according to Xinhua.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang, who attended the meeting, stressed the importance of improving the resilience and safety of industrial and supply chains, accelerating the improvement of China's industrial innovation capacity, and constantly promoting the optimization and upgrading of the country's industrial structure. Li also advocated the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, and the green development of the industrial sector.

China's new industrialization has shown remarkable results. China is the only country in the world with all the industrial categories mentioned in the United Nations industrial classification. Its scale of manufacturing has been the largest for 13 consecutive years, and its output of new energy vehicles and photovoltaic industries leads the world.

Intelligent machines are used to produce electronic products in a workshop in Guang'an, Sichuan province. (PHOTO: VCG)

Wang Weiming, director general of the First Department of Equipment Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said high-end equipment manufacturing should be focused on. Besides, major projects should be implemented to support the new industrialization.

Enterprises should keep in mind new development concepts and work hard on innovation, said Lin Chao, a senior engineer at the China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group, adding that his company aims to create a Chinese-style intelligent survey and design platform for high-speed railways to make engineering designs more digitalized and intelligent.

Zheng Lei, director of Sichuan Communications Administration, said Sichuan province will accelerate the construction and application of new information infrastructure, promote deep integration of informatization and industrialization, and accelerate large-scale application of "5G + industrial Internet" for high-quality economic and social development.