At a State Council Information Office press conference on August 26, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xin Guobin outlined the ministry's five-year objectives, emphasizing plans to optimize industrial structure through coordinated efforts in upgrading traditional sectors, nurturing emerging industries, and strategically positioning future-oriented fields while maintaining a complete industrial system.

China's emerging industries are currently experiencing robust growth, with key sectors such as intelligent connected new energy vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, and intelligent robots continuously generating fresh momentum and competitive advantages. According to Yao Jun, Director of the MIIT Planning Department, the ministry will implement multiple measures to accelerate the scaled development of emerging industries, enhance global competitiveness, and cultivate a new batch of pillar industries.

In the realm of technological breakthroughs, Yao noted that the MIIT is driving accelerated progress in innovation across emerging fields. The ministry is deepening the implementation of major technical equipment research programs and industrial foundation reengineering projects, targeting strategic areas and weak links in industrial supply chains. Through unconventional measures, the focus is on achieving decisive breakthroughs in critical core technologies across integrated circuits, industrial machine tools, high-end instrumentation, basic and industrial software, advanced materials, and biomanufacturing. Additionally, the ministry is optimizing the layout of manufacturing innovation centers and pilot testing bases to address gaps in key common technology supply.

Regarding platform development, the MIIT is promoting the growth of key parks and enterprises in emerging industries. The creation of national demonstration bases for emerging industry development will concentrate on priority areas including next-generation information technology, new energy, new materials, intelligent connected new energy vehicles, robotics, biomedicine, high-end equipment, and aerospace, establishing benchmarks that lead the sector's advancement. Yao stated that by 2035, the goal is to cultivate approximately 100 demonstration parks with radiating influence in industrial cluster development, collaborative innovation, ecosystem optimization, and governance improvement, alongside roughly 1,000 demonstration enterprises leading in product development, technological innovation, business model innovation, and management efficiency.

In the area of scenario cultivation, the MIIT is promoting the large-scale application of new technologies, products, and scenarios. This includes demonstration initiatives for manufacturing applications, accelerating the development of major application scenarios such as "5G+", "artificial intelligence+", "robot+", "industrial internet+", and "BeiDou+", while improving mechanisms for selecting landmark projects, publishing lists of new technologies, products, and scenarios, and facilitating supply-demand matching to drive iterative testing and upgrading of innovations in real-world environments.

Zhang Cuixia, chief investment advisor at Jufeng Investment, noted that industrial cluster cultivation can accelerate the concentration of quality industrial resources toward leading parks and benchmark enterprises, helping regional clusters form differentiated competitive advantages. This approach provides capital markets with a selection of specialized and innovative targets with long-term growth certainty, further strengthening the asset allocation value of the hard technology sector. Zhang emphasized that many hard technology enterprises previously lacked platforms for validating cutting-edge achievements in real scenarios, while traditional manufacturers struggled to find precisely matched digital upgrade solutions. The new policy positions real application scenarios as public innovation carriers, directly aligning technological iteration with actual industrial needs and accelerating the formation of scaled industrial clusters in robotics, intelligent sensors, and industrial software, thereby consolidating China's global competitive edge in areas like humanoid robots and 5G smart factories.

Regarding ecosystem optimization, Yao indicated that the MIIT is accelerating the concentration of factor resources toward emerging industries. This involves advancing the new industry standardization pilot project, implementing the "Technology-Industry-Finance Integration" special initiative, establishing national卓越 engineer practice bases, and innovating service-oriented manufacturing and producer services. The ministry will also improve support systems for standards, finance, and talent development suited to emerging industry growth, implement pilot programs for digital collaborative transformation among large, medium, and small enterprises, and support leading companies in forming innovation consortia with upstream and downstream partners to promote integrated development and collaborative innovation across industrial chains.

Chen Xiaohua, executive dean of the Education and Science Research Institute at China Mobile Communications Association, explained that the "Technology-Industry-Finance Integration" initiative serves as a crucial policy instrument empowering capital allocation. Previously, hard technology investment in China faced persistent challenges including lengthy commercialization chains for scientific achievements, fragmented industrial scenario connections, and information asymmetry between capital and tech projects. This special initiative will directly open channels connecting laboratory technologies, pilot testing platforms, industrial implementation, and financial capital, guiding funds to precisely cover the entire lifecycle from early-stage tech incubation and pilot maturation to industrial implementation, significantly enhancing capital allocation efficiency toward early-stage, small-scale, and hard technology investments. Chen believes that from a long-term development perspective, as support systems for standards, finance, and talent continue to improve, the ecosystem effects of this integration will gradually unfold, providing capital markets with hard technology targets offering long-term growth certainty while fostering collaborative innovation networks among enterprises across industrial chains, injecting sustained momentum for China's industrial ascent toward higher positions in the global value chain.