On May 19, 2015, the State Council issued the full text of "Made in China 2025." The document describes the current state of China's manufacturing industry and, in light of the current international environment, proposes development plans for China's manufacturing sector over the next 5 and 10 years. It points out that while China is the world's largest manufacturing nation, it is not yet a manufacturing powerhouse, currently facing the severe challenges of the dual pressures of "reindustrialization" by developed countries and the transfer of low-end industries to Southeast Asia and other countries. Therefore, it proposes that China's manufacturing industry must transform from large to strong, and puts forward a series of guiding principles and basic principles. Guiding Principles: Innovation-driven, quality-first, green development, structural optimization, and talent-based . Basic Principles: Market-led, government-guided. Focusing on the present while looking to the future. Overall advancement with key breakthroughs. Independent development and open cooperation. Strategic Goals: Based on national conditions and reality, strive to achieve the strategic goal of becoming a manufacturing powerhouse through a "three-step" approach. Step 1: Strive to enter the ranks of manufacturing powerhouses within ten years. Step 2: By 2035, China's manufacturing industry as a whole will reach the middle level among the world's manufacturing powerhouses. Step Three: By the centenary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, its status as a major manufacturing country will be further consolidated, and its comprehensive strength will rank among the world's leading manufacturing powers. Key manufacturing indicators for 2020 and 2025: Strategic Tasks and Priorities: (I) Enhance the innovation capacity of the national manufacturing industry. (II) Promote the deep integration of informatization and industrialization. (III) Strengthen the basic industrial capabilities. (IV) Enhance quality and brand building. (V) Fully implement green manufacturing. (VI) Vigorously promote breakthrough development in key areas. (VII) Deepen the structural adjustment of the manufacturing industry. (VIII) Improve the international development level of the manufacturing industry. Strategic Support and Guarantee: (I) Deepen institutional and mechanism reforms. (II) Create a fair and competitive market environment. (III) Improve financial support policies. ( IV) Increase fiscal and tax policy support. (V) Improve the multi-level talent training system. (VI) Improve policies for small and medium-sized enterprises. (VII) Further expand the opening up of the manufacturing industry. (VIII) Improve the organizational implementation mechanism. Key Interpretations: ① Several terms appear frequently in "Made in China 2025" (hereinafter referred to as "2025"), indirectly pointing to the key factors needed for China to transform from a large country to a strong one. The document first points out that due to the decline in China's demographic dividend, it is no longer possible to compete with Southeast Asian countries and other countries with low labor costs for the low-end, extensive manufacturing market. The transformation towards intelligent, digital, and information-based manufacturing is imminent, while continuously improving product quality. Therefore, "intelligent," "quality," and "information" are the three most frequently mentioned terms in the document. The "Ten Measures for Air Pollution Prevention and Control," the "Ten Measures for Water Pollution Prevention and Control," and "2025" all emphasize green environmental protection issues, demonstrating the country's determination to implement a sustainable development strategy. Key Interpretation ② As shown in the diagram below (source: China Control Engineering Network), the high recall rate of China's exported products and the lack of core technologies make it difficult for China to shed its image as a cheap and counterfeit nation, resulting in low product added value. Therefore, the strategic goal of "Made in China 2025" is to reduce operating costs by more than 50%, shorten production cycles by more than 50%, and reduce defect rates by more than 50% by 2025 through intelligent manufacturing. This involves achieving product lifecycle management from order to customer through information technology, and seamlessly connecting all stages through information. In simpler terms, the goal of "Made in China 2025" is to achieve pollution-free production cost reduction, shortened production cycles, and reduced product inventory and circulation time. It aims to achieve comprehensive monitoring and management of products from "birth" to "death" to ensure product quality, increase product added value, compensate for the negative impact of declining demographic dividends, and enhance international competitiveness. Key Interpretation ③ "Made in China 2025" states that by 2020, approximately 15 manufacturing innovation centers (industrial technology research bases) will be established, with a target of around 40 by 2025. Core basic components (devices), advanced basic processes, key basic materials, and industrial technology foundations (collectively referred to as the "four basics") will achieve 40% self-sufficiency by 2020 and 70% self-sufficiency by 2025. The document indicates clear incentive policies for technological innovation and tackling key challenges, and the establishment of a clear quality supervision system for quality control, ensuring a clear system of rewards and punishments. As shown in the diagram below, the document also specifically identifies key technological challenges that need to be addressed in the context of intelligent manufacturing. Key Interpretation ④ In addition, "2025" also points out 10 key industries to be supported for development. These 10 industries represent the future development trend of China. Key Interpretation ⑤ : Furthermore, "Made in China 2025" encourages key process and technology upgrades in industries facing overcapacity and development bottlenecks through government guidance and financial support, promoting development towards the high end of the value chain. It aims to steadily resolve the overcapacity problem. Strengthening and improving macro-control, it adopts a sector-specific and category-specific approach, following the principles of "digesting some, transferring some, integrating some, and eliminating some," to effectively resolve the overcapacity problem. The document also specifically emphasizes advocating a new economic cooperation model—PPP (Public-Private Partnership)—guided by the government and driven by the market. It is noteworthy that this model has been mentioned multiple times in policy documents published by the central government, advocating the use of social capital to replace state investment in promoting healthy economic development. Key Interpretation ⑥ "Made in China 2025" also comprehensively promotes green manufacturing. Besides implementing zero-pollution green manufacturing standards for emerging industries, the transformation of end-user facilities in traditional industries is also urgently needed. Furthermore, in addition to advocating the PPP model, the document encourages resource sharing, technological complementarity, open cooperation, and win-win collaboration among enterprises, aligning with the strategic thinking of the "Belt and Road Initiative." The "Made in China 2025" plan presents opportunities for information technology. Domestic telecommunications giants like Huawei and ZTE have already reached internationally leading levels, possessing a relatively strong technological foundation. However, for the industrial control sector, due to its weaker industry foundation, the road ahead is much longer and more challenging . Currently, China's PLC, servo motor, sensor, reducer, and encoder markets are still monopolized by foreign companies. Furthermore, in low-voltage servo motors, DDR motor drives, and high-efficiency motors, the foreign monopoly rate exceeds 95%, while reducers, encoders, and motors for high-end robots are 100% imported. Combining the opportunities presented by "Made in China 2025" with the core ideas of Industry 4.0, according to data from the Industrial Control Network, the industrial informatization industry will drive 6 trillion yuan in GDP growth over the next 10 years, while the sensor field will grow at an average annual rate of 30%, and the servo market will also experience rapid growth. Beckhoff is considered a pioneer of Industry 4.0 in Germany, and its technology is widely recognized. Its EtherCAT industrial Ethernet has been designated as a recommended industrial Ethernet standard in China. Both Beckhoff and 3S believe that in future development, platforms will become increasingly standardized, resource-sharing-oriented, and collaborative among enterprises. ST, CFC, and SFC languages ​​will become the mainstream industrial control languages ​​in the future, while C language will also emerge in future PLCs. For more exciting content, please follow UniMAT!