Xiao Yaqing: "14th Five-Year Plan" will comprehensively deploy 5G and other infrastructure construction

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This morning, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the development of industry and information technology. Xiao Yaqing, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said that looking forward to the 14th Five-Year Plan, the industrial and information technology system will be based on the "two overall situations", keep in mind the "major issues of the country", scientifically grasp the new development stage, unswervingly implement the new development concept, adhere to the general tone of work of seeking progress while maintaining stability, take promoting high-quality development as the theme, take deepening supply-side structural reform as the main line, take reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, take meeting people's growing needs for a better life as the fundamental purpose, coordinate development and security, and take improving the modernization level of the industrial chain and supply chain as the focus and foothold, further consolidate the foundation, promote advantages, make up for shortcomings, strengthen weaknesses, and promote the construction of a strong manufacturing country and a strong network country to a new level. In the next step, we will focus on promoting five developments:

First, we must implement the innovation-driven development strategy in depth and strengthen the strategic support for building a strong manufacturing country and a strong network country . New generation information technology, new material technology, new energy technology, etc. are accelerating breakthroughs and accelerating development, which are profoundly changing the development model of the world economy and the pattern of international industrial division of labor. We must adhere to the most essential requirement of scientific and technological self-reliance, give full play to China's super-large market advantages and new national system advantages, vigorously promote innovation-driven development, systematically enhance the independent innovation capabilities of the manufacturing industry, focus on fighting the key core technology battle, and improve the supply system of common basic technologies. In particular, we must accelerate the improvement of the innovation system with enterprises as the main body, encourage enterprises to increase investment, and give birth to more original and subversive technologies. What we are talking about here is to encourage innovation, not only to create more products and more single technologies in specific technologies and products, but more importantly, to further enhance the innovation capabilities of the manufacturing industry.

Second, we must focus on improving the stability and competitiveness of the industrial chain and supply chain, and create new advantages for future development . An independent, complete, resilient and flexible industrial chain and supply chain is an important guarantee for stable economic growth. China's industrial categories are the most complete, well-equipped, and deeply integrated into the world's industrial division of labor system, which not only ensures the stable and healthy development of China's economy, but also makes great contributions to the growth and development of the world economy. We must give prominence to improving the stability and competitiveness of the industrial chain and supply chain, implement manufacturing industry chain strengthening and chain supplementation actions and industrial base reconstruction projects, accelerate the filling of short boards and breaking long boards, layout emerging industrial chains, focus on enhancing the independent and controllable capabilities of the industrial chain and supply chain, effectively safeguard China's economic security, create new advantages for future development, and firmly grasp the initiative in the fierce international market competition.

Third, vigorously promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure and promote the overall improvement of industrial quality . The optimization and upgrading of industrial structure is the key to improving China's economic competitiveness. We must anchor on "accelerating the development of a modern industrial system", deepen the supply-side structural reform, work hard on "consolidation, enhancement, improvement, and unblocking", effectively transform the development model, and enhance the adaptability of the manufacturing supply system to domestic demand. We must deeply implement major technological transformation and upgrading projects and quality improvement actions, build a green manufacturing system, and promote the orderly transfer of industries in China. We must strengthen the gradient cultivation of high-quality enterprises, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and promote the development and growth of emerging strategic industries including integrated circuits, 5G, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, new energy vehicles, and green environmental protection. We must cultivate and develop future industries and create a number of internationally competitive industrial clusters.

Fourth, we should accelerate the development of the digital economy and use digital transformation to stimulate and create new development momentum . The digital transformation of the economy is an irresistible trend. We should grasp the development direction of digitalization, networking, and intelligence, give full play to our country's existing foundation and advantages, coordinate the promotion of digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, comprehensively deploy the construction of new-generation information and communication infrastructure such as 5G, industrial Internet, and data centers, implement the digital transformation of manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing projects, digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, etc., promote the full integration of new-generation information technology and manufacturing, and the deep integration of manufacturing and service industries, accelerate the development of the digital economy, and the most fundamental thing is to promote the development of the real economy.

Fifth, further deepen reform, expand high-level opening up, and continuously enhance new development vitality. The achievements of industrial and information development rely on reform and opening up. In the future, we need to implement the "14th Five-Year Plan" and implement new development, which still requires further deepening of reform and opening up. In order to achieve the goal of building a strong cyber power and a strong manufacturing power in the future, we must further increase our efforts in reform and opening up, better play the breakthrough and leading role of reform, meet the needs of building a strong manufacturing power and a strong cyber power, focus on maintaining the basic stability of the proportion of manufacturing, deepen the "delegation, regulation and service" reform, implement the market-oriented reform measures of factors, strengthen industrial policy guidance, enhance the attractiveness of manufacturing to various resource factors, promote the deep integration of reform and development, further link efficiently, further expand opening up to the outside world, fully open up general manufacturing, significantly relax market access, better use of both international and domestic resources and markets, form a more innovative, higher value-added, safer and more controllable industrial chain, and cultivate new advantages for industries to participate in international cooperation and competition.