Xi Focuses on Implementing Central Goals, Self-Revolution & Anti-Corruption at CCDI Plenary - Li Lecheng Details Agenda for Building Modern Industrial System
Here are the key reports and articles from the People’s Daily’s edition on Tuesday, January 13, 2026.
Page 1: The lead report today is on Xi Jinping’s speech at the fifth plenary of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The entire PBSC was in attendance, with Li Xi, who heads the CCDI, presiding over the meeting.
Xi Jinping pointed out that in 2025, the Party Central Committee deeply promoted the construction of Party conduct, clean government, and the anti-corruption struggle, achieving significant results. Political supervision was strengthened and political inspections were deepened, effectively guaranteeing the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee; solid efforts were made to carry out in-depth learning and education on implementing the spirit of the Central Committee’s eight-point regulations, promoting further improvement of conduct and fostering new practices throughout the Party; a high-pressure posture against corruption was maintained, promoting simultaneous investigation and treatment of both misconduct and corruption, deepening the rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption issues around the masses, and focusing on rooting out the soil and conditions for the breeding of corruption. 习近平指出，2025年，党中央深入推进党风廉政建设和反腐败斗争，取得显著成效。强化政治监督，深化政治巡视，有力保障党中央重大决策部署贯彻落实；扎实开展深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育，推动全党进一步改作风树新风；保持反腐败高压态势，推进风腐同查同治，深化整治群众身边不正之风和腐败问题，着力铲除腐败滋生的土壤和条件.
Xi Jinping emphasised that implementing the Party Central Committee’s major decisions and deployment is a fundamental requirement for safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralised and unified leadership, and is also an important historical experience for the continuous development and progress of the Party’s and the people’s cause. The 15th FYP period is crucial for laying a solid foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically achieve socialist modernisation. Party organizations at all levels and the vast number of Party members and cadres must enhance their sense of political responsibility and historical mission, and implement the decisions and deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee with concrete actions. It is necessary to closely focus on implementing the new development concept, promoting high-quality development, and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern; focus on tasks and requirements such as building a modern industrial system, developing new-quality productive forces according to local conditions, building a unified national market, expanding high-level opening up, solidly advancing common prosperity for all, preventing a return to poverty on a normalised basis, defusing local government hidden debt, strengthening ecological and environmental protection, and coordinating development and security; strengthen concrete, precise, and regularized supervision and inspection; make good use of inspection results and strengthen supervision of rectification; and ensure that the Party Central Committee’s major decisions and deployment are implemented. All regions and departments must, in light of actual conditions, conscientiously explore effective methods and pathways for implementing the Party Central Committee’s major decisions and deployment. This year, local governments will begin leadership transitions. It is necessary to use good cadres who are truly loyal and reliable, who are the same on the outside as their are inside/have no duplicity (表里如一), and who are responsible and fulfill their duties. 习近平强调，贯彻落实党中央重大决策部署，是维护党中央权威和集中统一领导的根本要求，也是党和人民事业不断发展进步的重要历史经验。“十五五”时期是基本实现社会主义现代化夯实基础、全面发力的关键时期，各级党组织和广大党员、干部要增强政治责任感、历史使命感，以实际行动贯彻落实好党的二十届四中全会各项决策部署。要紧紧围绕贯彻新发展理念、推动高质量发展、加快构建新发展格局，聚焦建设现代化产业体系、因地制宜发展新质生产力、建设全国统一大市场、扩大高水平对外开放、扎实推进全体人民共同富裕、常态化防止返贫致贫、化解地方政府隐性债务、加强生态环境保护、统筹发展和安全等任务要求，加强具体化、精准化、常态化的监督检查，用好巡视成果、强化整改监督，保障党中央重大决策部署落到实处。各地区各部门要结合实际，认真探索贯彻落实党中央重大决策部署的有效方法和途径。今年地方将开始换届，要把真正忠诚可靠、表里如一、担当尽责的好干部用起来. (Note: So I guess one of the big priorities this year will be in terms of getting the kind of personnel that Xi wants in the right places. This is likely to remain a longer-term challenge for Xi, as the age-gap between him and lower-level cadres grows and there are few personal engagements that he can draw upon.)
Xi Jinping pointed out that the Party’s self-revolution focuses on governing power; locking power into the cage of institutions is an important task for strict and comprehensive Party governance in the new era. After the 18th Party Congress, the Party Central Committee started by formulating and implementing the central 8-point regulations, establishing iron rules and strong constraints, and promoting a complete transformation of Party and government conduct. Locking power into the cage of institutions requires both continuously perfecting institutional regulations by making them dense but not complicated and making them effective and useful, and it also requires focusing on raising the execution capacity of institutions and strengthening rigid constraints. It is necessary to adhere to the principle that everyone is equal before laws and regulations, that there are no privileges in complying with laws and regulations, and that there are no exceptions in enforcing laws and regulations, ensuring that institutional regulations truly become a high-voltage line that cannot be touched (带电的高压线). The top leaders must take the lead in implementation. It is necessary to strengthen propaganda and education on laws and systems, guiding Party members and cadres to understand laws and discipline, be clear about rules, and have a sense of awe/reverence. It is necessary to further improve the transparency of Party and government affairs, letting power operate under sunlight. 习近平指出，党的自我革命重在治权，把权力关进制度笼子是新时代全面从严治党的一项重要任务。党的十八大后，党中央以制定实施中央八项规定开局破题，立铁规矩、强硬约束，推动党风政风焕然一新。把权力关进制度笼子，既要不断完善制度规定，使制度密而不繁、有效管用，又要着力提高制度执行力，增强刚性约束。要坚持法规制度面前人人平等、遵守法规制度没有特权、执行法规制度没有例外，确保制度规定真正成为带电的高压线。“一把手”要带头执行制度。要加强法规制度宣传教育，引导党员、干部懂法纪、明规矩、知敬畏。要进一步提高党务、政务的透明度，让权力在阳光下运行.
Xi Jinping emphasised that corruption is a roadblock and stumbling stone in the course of the development of the Party’s and the country’s undertakings, and that anti-corruption is a major struggle that cannot be lost and must absolutely not be lost. Since the 18th Party Congress, our Party has successfully forged a anti-corruption path with Chinese-characteristics under the centralised and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, treating both symptoms and root causes and advancing in an integrated manner the mechanisms of not daring to be corrupt, being unable to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt; this path must be resolutely continued. At present, the situation of the anti-corruption struggle remains severe and complex, and the task of eradicating the soil and conditions for the breeding of corruption remains arduous and heavy. It is necessary to maintain a high-pressure posture without wavering, oppose corruption wherever it exists, punish greed wherever it exists, and eliminate evil thoroughly, leaving corrupt elements with no place to hide. It is necessary to grasp the new trends and new characteristics of corruption, innovate means and methods, improve mechanisms for implementing anti-corruption responsibilities, promptly discover, accurately identify, and effectively manage all types of corruption problems, and continuously enhance the penetrating force of anti-corruption efforts. Greater effort must be put into advancing integration, strengthening systems thinking, enhancing coordinated linkage, connecting all forms of supervision, and promoting integrated governance through full-chain coordination. 习近平强调，腐败是党和国家事业发展进程中的拦路虎、绊脚石，反腐败是一场输不起也决不能输的重大斗争。党的十八大以来，我们党成功走出一条在党中央集中统一领导下，标本兼治、一体推进不敢腐不能腐不想腐的中国特色反腐败之路，要坚定走下去。当前，反腐败斗争形势仍然严峻复杂，铲除腐败滋生土壤和条件任务仍然艰巨繁重。要保持高压态势不动摇，有腐必反、有贪必肃、除恶务尽，让腐败分子没有藏身之地。要把握腐败的新动向新特点，创新手段方式，完善反腐败责任落实机制，及时发现、准确识别、有效治理各类腐败问题，不断提高反腐败穿透力。要在一体推进上下更大功夫，强化系统观念，加强联动配合，把各方面监督贯通起来，以全链条协作促进一体化治理.
Xi Jinping pointed out that discipline inspection and supervision organs bear heavy responsibilities and a glorious mission in promoting the Party’s self-revolution and strict and comprehensive Party governance, and must firmly safeguard the Party’s unity and solidarity and firmly defend the Party’s advanced nature and purity. It is necessary to continuously strengthen the standardized, law-based, and regularized development of discipline inspection and supervision work, and to constantly improve the quality and effectiveness of supervision, discipline enforcement, and law enforcement. It is necessary to follow the requirements of being politically reliable, highly competent, possessing excellent work ethics, and being incorruptible, focusing on forging a discipline inspection and supervision iron army that is loyal, clean, and responsible, and that dares to struggle and is skilled at struggle. 习近平指出，纪检监察机关在推进党的自我革命、全面从严治党中责任重大、使命光荣，要坚定维护党的团结统一，坚定捍卫党的先进性纯洁性。要持续加强纪检监察工作规范化法治化正规化建设，不断提高监督执纪执法质效。要按照政治过硬、能力过硬、作风过硬、廉洁过硬的要求，着力锻造忠诚干净担当、敢于善于斗争的纪检监察铁军.
In his remarks, Li Xi praised Xi’s speech, adding that “it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech, deeply grasp the decisive significance of the two establishments, enhance the four consciousnesses, strengthen the four self-confidences, and achieve the two safeguards, earnestly fulfill the political responsibility of comprehensive and strict Party governance, and, with the toughness and persistence of always being on the road, unswervingly push the Party’s self-revolution deeper and further.” 要深入学习贯彻习近平总书记重要讲话精神，深刻领悟“两个确立”的决定性意义，增强“四个意识”、坚定“四个自信”、做到“两个维护”，认真履行全面从严治党政治责任，以永远在路上的坚韧和执着，坚定不移把党的自我革命向纵深推进.
Also on the page is a commentary drawing from Xi’s speech. The piece picks on the aspect of implementing the major decisions and deployments of the central leadership. Here’s an interesting excerpt from the commentary.
From the strategic blueprint outlined at the Fourth Plenary Session, to the clear requirements for making a good start and laying a solid foundation, and then to the goals and tasks for economic and social development this year...the major strategic decisions made by the Party Central Committee, and the clear work ideas, tasks, and policies, have all been put forward after thorough deliberation and repeated research. Once decided, they must be implemented. By persisting in the whole Party being of one heart and the whole country acting as one chessboard, and by effectively implementing the Party Central Committee’s major decisions and deployment, we will be able to overcome all difficulties and not be overwhelmed by any difficulty, and rally greater driving force for forward development. 从党的二十届四中全会的战略擘画，到开好局、起好步的明确要求，再到今年经济社会发展的目标任务……党中央作出的重大战略决策，明确的工作思路、任务、政策，都是经过充分论证、反复研究提出的。定了就要落实。坚持全党一条心、全国一盘棋，切实把党中央重大决策部署贯彻落实好，我们就能压倒一切困难、不为任何困难所压倒，凝聚起向前发展的更大推动力.
‘Enhance the sense of political responsibility and historical mission,’ General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward clear requirements for Party organisations at all levels and for all Party members and cadres. A sense of responsibility is to hold in one’s bosom the matters that are of great significant to the country (国之大者), to be constantly unable to set one’s mind at ease, to act as if facing an abyss and treading on thin ice, to be in one’s post, plan one’s governance, and exhaust one’s responsibilities; a sense of mission is the firm perseverance of ‘taking up the historical relay baton’ and walking well the new road of rushing for the exam, with ideals in one’s heart, the nation and family in one’s chest, and a mission upon one’s shoulders. We must take the Party’s original aspiration as our core belief and the Party’s mission as our life’s purpose, and concentrate all our wisdom and strength on achieving the Party’s central tasks. “增强政治责任感、历史使命感”，习近平总书记对各级党组织和广大党员、干部提出明确要求。责任感是胸怀“国之大者”、时时放心不下的如临如履，在其位、谋其政、尽其责；使命感是“接过历史接力棒”、走好新的赶考之路的坚定执着，心中有理想、胸中有家国、肩上有使命。我们要以党的初心为本心、以党的使命为生命，把全部智慧和力量凝聚到实现党的中心任务上来.
To be firm actors and practical doers, establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements is key. Have we deviated from the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics? Have we departed from the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly? Have we strayed from the Party’s line, principles, and policies and the Party Central Committee’s major decisions and deployments? Have we departed from national conditions and the actual circumstances of our locality, department, or unit? By frequently examining our thoughts and actions from the perspective of fulfilling the Party’s mission and tasks, we can single-mindedly advance Chinese-style modernisation and deliver a satisfactory answer that can withstand the test of history and the people. 当好坚定行动派、实干家，树立和践行正确政绩观是关键。有没有偏离共产主义远大理想和中国特色社会主义共同理想，有没有背离全心全意为人民服务的根本宗旨，有没有游离党的路线方针政策和党中央重大决策部署，有没有脱离国情和本地区本部门实际？从实现党的使命任务出发，经常检视自己的思想和行动，我们才能心无旁骛推进中国式现代化，交出经得起历史和人民检验的合格答卷.
Implementing the Party Central Committee’s major decisions and deployments is the basic requirement of the Party’s political discipline and political rules. For discipline inspection and supervision organs, deepening and solidifying political supervision around achieving the goals and tasks of the 15th FYP period, and strengthening concrete, precise, and regularized supervision and inspection, will better enable them to play the political leading and safeguarding role of strict and comprehensive Party governance. 贯彻落实党中央重大决策部署是党的政治纪律和政治规矩的基本要求。对于纪检监察机关来说，围绕实现“十五五”时期目标任务做深做实政治监督，加强具体化、精准化、常态化的监督检查，定能更好发挥全面从严治党政治引领和政治保障作用.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasised: ‘all regions and departments must combine with actual conditions and conscientiously explore effective methods and pathways for implementing the Party Central Committee’s major decisions and deployments.” This fully embodies the intrinsic requirements of seeking truth from facts and adapting measures to local conditions. For example, in developing new-quality productive forces, the Party Central Committee has repeatedly emphasised ‘adapting measures to local conditions.’ Some localities blindly follow trends—seeing others develop chips, they also develop chips; seeing others develop the ‘new three items’, they are unwilling to lag behind; some even disregard reality and simply withdraw from traditional industries by labeling them ‘low-end industries’ or ‘obsolete industries’. These serve as warnings that once implementation departs from the actual conditions of one’s locality, department, or unit, it is easy for things to become distorted and deformed, leading to the wrong recitation of good scriptures (把好经念歪).
Another example is pushing forward in depth the building of a unified national market. In recent years, 4,218 regulations and practices hindering the national unified market and fair competition have been cleared centrally, but in fields such as enterprise competition, government procurement and bidding, and local investment promotion, there still exist sticking points and blockages that are hindering the construction of a unified national large market. Only by firmly establishing an overall consciousness and resolutely breaking down local protectionism and market segmentation can we continuously shape new kinetic energy and new advantages for our country’s development. 习近平总书记强调：“各地区各部门要结合实际，认真探索贯彻落实党中央重大决策部署的有效方法和途径。”这充分体现了实事求是、因地制宜的内在要求。比如发展新质生产力，党中央反复强调“因地制宜”。有的地方盲目跟风，看别人搞芯片，自己也搞；看别人搞“新三样”，自己也不甘落后；甚至不顾实际把传统产业当作“低端产业”“过时产业”简单退出。这些警示我们，抓落实一旦脱离本地区本部门实际，就容易变形走样、把好经念歪. 再比如纵深推进全国统一大市场建设。近年来，集中清理4218件妨碍全国统一市场和公平竞争的规定和做法，但在企业竞争、政府采购招标、地方招商引资等领域，仍存在阻碍全国统一大市场建设的卡点堵点。牢固树立大局意识，坚决破除地方保护和市场分割，才能不断塑造我国发展新动能新优势。
Finally, there’s a report (English report) with a list of ambassadorial changes.
Page 2: There’s an interview with Li Lecheng, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, discussing the agenda for building a modern industrial system. The first question is about the measures that will be taken to maintain stable growth in the industrial economy. Li responds that this year’s work will focus on four core themes.
‘Stability’, which means stabilising growth in key industries and regions. The industrial added value of key industries and regions accounts for 80% of the total industrial output, forming the foundation of the industrial economy. We will thoroughly implement the new round of work plans for stabilising growth in 10 key industries; and continue to support major industrial provinces in playing a leading role, strengthening policy support and resource guarantees, and developing new-quality productive forces according to local conditions.
‘Expansion’, which means tapping into and expanding effective demand. We will strengthen supply-demand matching, actively promote flexible manufacturing, accelerate the innovative application of new technologies and models such as AI, build a matrix of Chinese consumer brands across different industries and sectors, and guide enterprises to increase the production of marketable products. We will accelerate the launch of major projects under the 15th FYP, focusing on maintaining effective investment in manufacturing; strengthen coordination between industrial and trade policies, and stabilise industrial product exports.
‘Innovation’, which means promoting value creation and winning through quality. We will coordinate the implementation of actions to revitalize traditional industries and develop and strengthen emerging industries to create new driving forces. We will deeply promote major technological transformation and upgrading projects, strengthen standard setting, quality improvement, and brand building, consolidate and enhance the position and competitiveness of industries such as metallurgy, light industry, and machinery in the global industrial division of labour, build emerging pillar industries such as integrated circuits, new materials, and aerospace, and promote bio-manufacturing, embodied intelligence, and 6G as new economic growth points.
‘Growth’, which means further enhancing the dynamism and vitality of business entities. We will improve the tiered cultivation system for high-quality enterprises, helping them further advance towards becoming leading technology companies and world-class enterprises. We will attach great importance to helping enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, improve their cash flow, intensify efforts to clear outstanding payments to enterprises, continue to implement special actions to reduce the burden on enterprises, and promote the direct and rapid implementation of policies benefiting enterprises. We will strengthen capacity monitoring, early warning, and management in key industries, consolidate and expand the results of the comprehensive rectification of ‘involution-style’ competition, and create a favourable ecosystem for the healthy development of enterprises.
“稳”就是要稳定重点行业和重点地区增长。重点行业和地区的工业增加值占到工业总量的80%，是工业经济的基本盘。我们将深入实施好新一轮十大重点行业稳增长工作方案；继续支持工业大省挑大梁，强化政策支持和要素保障，因地制宜发展新质生产力。“扩”就是要挖潜扩大有效需求。加强供需适配，积极推广柔性制造，加快人工智能等新技术新模式创新应用，分行业分领域建设中国消费名品方阵，引导企业加大适销对路产品生产。加快启动“十五五”重大工程项目，着力保持制造业有效投资；加强工贸政策协同，稳定工业品出口。“创”就是要促进价值创造以质取胜。统筹实施传统产业焕新行动和发展壮大新兴产业打造新动能行动，深入推进重大技术改造升级工程，强化标准引领、质量提升、品牌建设，巩固提升冶金、轻工、机械等产业在全球产业分工中的地位和竞争力，打造集成电路、新材料、航空航天等新兴支柱产业，推动生物制造、具身智能、6G等成为新的经济增长点。“增”就是要进一步增强经营主体动力活力。健全优质企业梯度培育体系，助力优质企业进一步向科技领军、世界一流企业迈进。高度重视帮助企业特别是中小微企业改善现金流，加力清理拖欠企业账款，持续实施减轻企业负担专项行动，推进惠企政策直达快享。强化重点行业产能监测预警和产能治理，巩固拓展“内卷式”竞争综合整治成效，营造企业健康发展的良好生态.
Next question says: “To accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as its backbone, what aspects will the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology focus on next?” The Minister responds:
During the 15th FYP period, we will promote the intelligent, green, and integrated development of the manufacturing industry, enhance the security and controllability of industrial and supply chains, maintain a reasonable proportion of manufacturing, and make the foundation of the real economy more stable, resilient, and efficient.
First, we will promote the ‘revitalisation’ of traditional industries. We will implement an action plan for the revitalisation of traditional industries, focusing on metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, textiles, machinery, and shipbuilding. We will develop transformation and upgrading plans for each industry, supporting enterprises in widely applying digital, intelligent and green technologies to promote equipment renewal, process optimisation, and management innovation. We will implement the AI+action, vigorously develop intelligent manufacturing and green manufacturing, and explore the creation of a number of zero-carbon factories and zero-carbon industrial parks.
Second, we will accelerate the ‘leapfrog development’ of emerging industries. We will implement an action plan to develop and strengthen emerging industries and create new drivers of growth, focusing on key areas such as integrated circuits, new displays, new materials, aerospace, low-altitude economy, and biomedicine, and create a number of national demonstration bases for the development of emerging industries. We will carry out large-scale application demonstrations of new technologies, new products, and new scenarios in the manufacturing industry, and promote the integrated development of innovation facility construction, technology research and development, product iteration and upgrading, and business model exploration, accelerating the large-scale development of emerging industries. We will work with all relevant parties to establish and improve a service and regulatory system adapted to the characteristics of new industries, new business forms, and new models, creating a favourable environment for vibrant innovation and entrepreneurship and orderly industry development.
Third, we will focus on the ‘layout’ of future industries. We will accelerate the establishment of investment growth and risk-sharing mechanisms for future industries, and promote new breakthroughs in future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future energy, future space, and future health. We will implement a national high-tech zone new track cultivation action, focusing on strengthening the innovation source, achievement transformation, and future industry cultivation functions of national high-tech zones. We will implement a special action for future industry scenario innovation, focusing on quantum technology, humanoid robots, brain-computer interfaces, deep-sea and polar regions, and 6G, strengthening technological breakthroughs, product development, enterprise cultivation, and ecosystem construction.
Fourth, we will deepen the ‘momentum’ of service-oriented manufacturing. We will coordinate technological innovation, model innovation, and product innovation, cultivate new models such as platform-based design, personalised customisation, networked collaboration, and service extension, and expand new business forms such as flexible production, cloud manufacturing, shared manufacturing, virtual manufacturing, and industrial e-commerce, promoting industrial design and R&D design towards specialisation and the high end of the value chain.
李乐成：“十五五”时期，我们将推进制造业智能化、绿色化、融合化发展，增强产业链供应链安全可控水平，保持制造业合理比重，让实体经济根基更稳、韧性更强、质效更优。一是推动传统产业“焕新”。实施传统产业焕新行动，聚焦冶金、化工、轻工、纺织、机械、船舶等领域，分行业研究制定改造提升方案，支持企业广泛运用数智技术、绿色技术，促进设备更新、工艺优化、管理创新。实施“人工智能+”行动，大力发展智能制造、绿色制造，探索创建一批零碳工厂和零碳园区。二是加速新兴产业“跃升”。实施发展壮大新兴产业打造新动能行动，聚焦集成电路、新型显示、新材料、航空航天、低空经济、生物医药等重点领域，创建一批国家新兴产业发展示范基地。开展制造业新技术新产品新场景大规模应用示范，一体化推进创新设施建设、技术研究开发、产品迭代升级和商业模式探索，加快新兴产业规模化发展。会同各有关方面建立健全适应新产业新业态新模式特点的服务和监管体系，营造创新创业活力迸发、行业规范有序发展的良好环境。三是注重未来产业“布局”。加快建立未来产业投入增长和风险分担机制，推动未来制造、未来信息、未来材料、未来能源、未来空间、未来健康等取得新突破。实施国家高新区新赛道培育行动，着力增强国家高新区的创新策源、成果转化和未来产业培育功能。实施未来产业场景创新专项行动，聚焦量子科技、人形机器人、脑机接口、深海极地、6G等领域，加强技术攻关、产品开发、企业培育、生态建设。四是深化服务型制造“成势”。统筹开展技术创新、模式创新、产品创新，培育平台化设计、个性化定制、网络化协同、服务化延伸等新模式，壮大柔性生产、云制造、共享制造、虚拟制造、工业电商等新业态，推动工业设计、研发设计等向专业化和价值链高端延伸.
The third question deals with the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. Li says that the focus is on “accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, comprehensively enhancing industrial science and technology innovation capabilities, continuously fostering new-quality productive forces, and seizing the commanding heights of global industrial development.”
First, we will systematically increase the supply of high-quality scientific and technological resources. We will plan major national science and technology projects centering on industrial needs and weak links, launch a new round of high-quality development actions for key manufacturing industry chains, and coordinate the promotion of industrial foundation rebuilding projects and major technological equipment research projects. We will build national manufacturing innovation centers and other platforms, utilise market-oriented mechanisms such as ‘challenge-based funding’ and ‘competitive bidding’, and guide enterprises to collaborate with universities and research institutes on key projects.
Second, we will continuously strengthen the principal role of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation. We will deeply implement policies such as pre-tax deduction of R&D expenses, implement a new round of central fiscal policies supporting the high-quality development of specialised, refined, distinctive, and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote enterprises to further increase R&D investment. We will continuously increase the proportion of enterprise experts’ participation and the proportion of enterprise-led undertakings in national major science and technology projects for which our ministry has primary responsibility, helping enterprises enhance their discourse power in innovation.
Third, we will accelerate the smooth flow of scientific and technological achievements. We will build a national manufacturing pilot-scale testing service network, strengthen technical foundational services such as metrology, standards, and intellectual property, cultivate excellence-level incubators, and build well the cradle for the growth of new enterprises and new business forms. We will advance pilot reforms such as ‘use first, pay later’ for scientific and technological achievements and pilot programs for the industrialisation of high-tech achievements, and make good use of technology transfer institutions and technology managers. We will accelerate the combination of ‘finding scenarios’ and ‘creating scenarios’, give play to the ‘connector’ role of key application scenarios, and promote the seamless linkage between the innovation chain and the industrial chain.
Fourth, we will focus on optimising the integrated innovation ecosystem. We will promote the concentration of intelligent and green technologies, technology services, high-end talents, and patient capital in enterprises. We will deeply implement the manufacturing talent support plan, vigorously build bases for the cultivation of outstanding engineers, guide universities under the ministry to optimize discipline construction, and create a high-level contingent of industrial science and technology innovation talent. We will make good use of the ‘science, technology, industry, and finance integration’ special programme and the national platform for industry–finance corporation, give play to the leveraging effect of industrial funds, and invest early, invest small, invest long-term, and invest in hard technology.
一是系统增加高质量科技供给。围绕产业需求、短板弱项，谋划国家科技重大项目，启动新一轮制造业重点产业链高质量发展行动，统筹推进产业基础再造工程和重大技术装备攻关工程。建好国家制造业创新中心等平台载体，用好“揭榜挂帅”“赛马制”等市场化手段，引导企业与高校、科研院所等联合攻坚。二是持续强化企业科技创新主体地位。深入落实研发费用加计扣除等政策，实施新一轮中央财政支持专精特新中小企业高质量发展政策，推动企业进一步加大研发投入。不断提高我部主责国家科技重大项目中的企业专家参与比例和企业牵头承担比例，助力企业增强创新话语权。三是加速畅通科技成果转化途径。构建全国制造业中试服务网络，强化计量、标准、知识产权等技术基础服务，培育卓越级孵化器，筑好新企业新业态的成长摇篮。推进科技成果“先使用后付费”改革试点、高新技术成果产业化试点等，用好技术转移机构和技术经理人。加快“找场景”和“造场景”相结合，发挥重点应用场景“连接器”作用，促进创新链产业链无缝对接。四是着力优化融合创新生态。推动智能和绿色技术、科技服务、高端人才、耐心资本等向企业集聚。深入实施制造业人才支持计划，大力建设卓越工程师培养基地，引导部属高校优化学科建设，造就高水平产业科技创新人才队伍。用好“科技产业金融一体化”专项和国家产融合作平台，发挥产业基金撬动效应，投早投小投长期投硬科技.
The final question deals with the plans to promote the digital and intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry. Li says that:
“The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will take the large-scale application of the Industrial Internet as a strategic starting point, accelerate the integrated application of digital-intelligent technologies such as AI, expand into more industrial fields, promote more typical applications, and explore more scenario values.
Build a solid digital foundation. On the one hand, we will focus on industrial data, using high-quality data to support high-level applications. We will launch an industrial data foundation-building action, focusing on key industries in the manufacturing sector, emphasising data collection, aggregation, and utilisation, building a number of high-quality industry datasets, and strengthening business entities such as data consulting and data annotation. On the other hand, we will accelerate the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, promoting the comprehensive digital transformation of large-scale enterprises, accelerating equipment upgrades, process improvements, and quality enhancements. We will deepen the special action to empower the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises and promote pilot cities for the digital transformation of SMEs.
Smoothen network linkages. On the one hand, we will focus on ‘connectivity’, accelerating network technology upgrades, and orderly promoting the evolution and upgrading of ‘dual-gigabit’ networks to 5G-A and 10-gigabit optical networks, accelerating the upgrading and transformation of traditional industrial network equipment, and striving to overcome bottlenecks such as compatibility and interoperability of industrial standard protocols, improving the breadth and quality of connectivity. On the other hand, we will focus on ‘applications’, cultivating and strengthening industrial internet platforms, vigorously developing digital and intelligent software and hardware products and solutions for key industries and critical scenarios, and increasing the promotion of networked and platform-based applications.
Activate the intelligent engine. We will deeply implement the AI+Manufacturing special action. On the one hand, we will ‘strengthen technology’, coordinating the layout of general-purpose large models and industry large models, and cultivating a number of intelligent agents and AI-native enterprises in key industries. On the other hand, we will ‘expand scenarios’, accelerating the intelligent upgrading of the manufacturing industry, widely exploring AI application scenarios, finding the right entry points, expanding applications, and connecting them into a chain, so that thousands of ‘small scenarios’ converge to form an integrated ‘big scene’, injecting strong momentum into promoting the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.
李乐成：“十五五”规划建议提出“促进制造业数智化转型”。工业和信息化部将以工业互联网规模化应用为战略抓手，加快人工智能等数智技术融合应用，拓展更多行业领域，推广更多典型应用，挖掘更多场景价值。筑牢数字化基础。一方面牵住工业数据这个“牛鼻子”，以高质量数据支撑高水平应用。我们将启动工业数据筑基行动，聚焦制造业重点行业，突出抓好数据采、集、用，建设一批高质量行业数据集，壮大数据咨询、数据标注等经营主体。另一方面加快制造业数字化转型，推动规上企业“应转尽转”，全面融入数字化进程，加速设备更新、工艺升级和质量提升。深化中小企业数字化转型赋能专项行动，推进中小企业数字化转型城市试点。畅通网络化纽带。一手抓“连接”，加快网络技术升级，有序推进“双千兆”网络向5G—A和万兆光网演进升级，加快传统工业网络设备更新改造，着力破解工业标准协议兼容互通等瓶颈，提升连接的广度和质量。一手抓“应用”，培优做强工业互联网平台，大力发展面向重点行业、关键场景的数智化软硬件产品和解决方案，加大网络化、平台化应用推广力度。激活智能化引擎。深入实施“人工智能+制造”专项行动，一方面“强技术”，统筹布局通用大模型和行业大模型，培育一批重点行业智能体、智能原生企业。一方面“拓场景”，加快制造业智能化升级，广泛挖掘人工智能应用场景，找准切口、拓展应用、“串珠成链”，以万千“小场景”汇聚形成融合“大场面”，为推动制造业高质量发展注入强大动力.
Page 3: Although Wang Yi did not travel to Somalia, we have today a joint statement (English text) that was issued by the two sides. This is brief. It says:
“Both sides reaffirmed the strength of the China–Somalia strategic partnership and their mutual support on core interests. They welcomed the positive momentum in bilateral relations, agreed to deepen political trust and practical cooperation, and underscored their shared commitment to sovereignty, unity, and non-interference. China reiterated its firm support for Somalia’s territorial integrity, stressing that Somaliland is an inalienable part of Somalia, while Somalia reaffirmed its steadfast support for the one-China principle and all of China’s efforts for national reunification, and the authority of UNGA Resolution 2758. The two ministers also discussed expanding cooperation in trade, development assistance, people-to-people exchanges, and multilateral coordination, and advancing peace and development in the Horn of Africa. Both sides reiterated that all countries should abide by the fundamental principles enshrined in the UN Charter and international laws and oppose the threat or use of force in international relations, and oppose coercive and intimidatory tactics that infringe upon the sovereignty of other countries.”
Also on the page is an interview with Wang Yi, talking about the outcomes of his visit to Africa. I’ve covered the readouts in detail already, so I am skipping this.
Another report (English report) informs that He Lifeng with former US Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner, now chairman of Warburg Pincus.
He told him that:
“China welcomes foreign enterprises including Warburg Pincus and long-term capital to continue expanding their investment in China and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation with China…The vice premier said that China is fully implementing the guiding principles of the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, in accordance with the suggestions and arrangements of the 15th Five-Year Plan, and advancing the building of a unified national market, unswervingly expanding high-level opening-up and promoting high-quality economic development. For his part, Geithner said that he is optimistic about the prospects of China’s economic development, and Warburg Pincus is willing to continue to deepen its presence in the Chinese market and promote the deepening of economic and trade cooperation between the United States and China.”
Finally, although this is not in the paper today, China and the EU appear to be moving ahead in resolving tensions over EV subsidies. Xinhua says:
“China and the European Union have agreed on the necessity of providing general guidance on price undertakings for Chinese companies exporting battery electric vehicle (BEV) passenger cars to the EU, according to China’s Ministry of Commerce on Monday. The move aims to address relevant concerns in a way that is more practical, targeted and consistent with WTO rules, the ministry said in a statement. It noted that in the spirit of mutual respect, the two sides have conducted multiple rounds of consultation in order to implement the consensus of the China-EU Summit and properly resolve the EU’s anti-subsidy case concerning Chinese BEVs. To that end, the European Commission on Monday issued guidance on the submission of price undertaking offers, covering various aspects that should be addressed in any such offer, including the minimum import price, sales channels, cross-compensation, and future investments in the EU. Each price undertaking offer is subject to the same legal criteria, and the commission will conduct each assessment in an objective and fair manner, following the principle of non-discrimination and in accordance with WTO rules, the commission said. The progress fully reflects the spirit of the dialogue and the outcomes of the consultations between China and the EU, showing that the two sides have the ability and willingness to resolve differences properly -- through dialogue and consultation, under the framework of WTO rules -- and to maintain the stability of automotive industrial and supply chains in China, the EU, and throughout the world, the commerce ministry said.
“This is conducive not only to ensuring the healthy development of China-EU economic and trade relations, but also to safeguarding the rules-based international trade order,” the ministry added. The China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products has noted that the proper resolution of the EU’s anti-subsidy case against Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) is a shared expectation among industry players across the EV value chain, in both China and the EU. The move will enhance the security and stability of related industrial and supply chains, safeguard overall China-EU economic and trade cooperation, and uphold the rules-based international trade order, the chamber said. The China Chamber of Commerce to the European Union has said it welcomes the progress China and the EU have made in resolving the EV case through dialogue, noting that this will boost market confidence, improve the investment environment for Chinese EV firms in Europe, and support deepened China-EU cooperation in technological innovation and green transition.”