Xiong Jijun, Deputy Minister of Industry and Information Technology
Promoting the deep integration of informatization and industrialization is an important strategic deployment that has been consistently implemented by the Party Central Committee and the State Council. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the need to promote the deep integration of the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence with the real economy, and continue to do a good job in the deep integration of informatization and industrialization. The deep integration of informatization and industrialization is based on the situation and the times. It builds an advanced mechanism to drive industrial development with information technology progress and promote information technology progress with industrial application, and adjusts to meet the development requirements of each stage in constant change. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology undertakes the mission of promoting the deep integration of informatization and industrialization, providing organizational support for the implementation of the series of deployments for the integration of informatization and industrialization. We must deeply study and implement the important instructions and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the deep integration of informatization and industrialization, grasp the universal laws of informatization, industrialization and their deep integration development, and strive to promote the deep integration of informatization and industrialization to a new level.
Deeply understanding the significance of the deep integration of informatization and industrialization
Advancing the deep integration of informatization and industrialization is a strategic choice to seize the opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that informatization has brought rare opportunities to the Chinese nation; In today's era, digital technology and digital economy are the opportunities for the world's technological revolution and industrial transformation. From the perspective of economic and social development history, humanity has experienced three industrial revolutions characterized by mechanization, electrification, and automation, all of which are centered on technological innovation and have driven tremendous leaps in productivity and profound changes in production relations. At present, the new generation of information technology represented by big data and artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, greatly improving humanity's ability to understand and transform the world. It is triggering fundamental changes in production methods, organizational forms, and business models in the industrial field, and a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is flourishing. Focusing on grasping and adapting to the global development trend, we must seize opportunities for change, strengthen digital technology empowerment through deep integration of informatization and industrialization, accelerate the development of manufacturing towards high-end, intelligent, green, and integrated industries, accelerate the cultivation and development of strategic emerging industries, and lead a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation with the integration and application of digital technology.
Promoting the deep integration of informatization and industrialization is a strategic task and specific practice to achieve new industrialization. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that developed Western countries are a "serial" development process, with industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization, and informatization developing in sequence. To catch up from behind, it is determined that China's development will inevitably be a "parallel" process. History and reality have shown that in promoting industrialization in a developing country like ours with a population of over 1.4 billion, we must not only follow the general laws of world industrialization, but also be based on our national conditions. China ushered in a wave of information technology development before industrialization was completed, and was destined to take a new path of industrialization with Chinese characteristics. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's new industrialization has achieved historic achievements, deeply reflecting the essential feature of deep integration of informatization and industrialization, which is the correct choice in line with the laws of development and China's national conditions. Focusing on promoting new industrialization, it is necessary to accelerate the all-round and full chain popularization and application of the new generation of information technology, improve industrial innovation capabilities, optimize industrial structure, enhance the resilience and security level of industrial and supply chains, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system through the deep integration of informatization and industrialization.
Promoting the deep integration of informatization and industrialization is an important support for cultivating new quality productivity. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that productivity is the most active and revolutionary factor in promoting social progress; Developing new quality productive forces is an inherent requirement and important focus for promoting high-quality development. Productivity is the fundamental driving force for the development of human society and the ultimate cause of all social and political changes. New quality productivity represents the evolutionary direction of advanced productivity. The deep integration of informatization and industrialization can, on the one hand, promote the deep empowerment of workers, labor materials, and labor objects by information technology, promote innovative allocation of production factors, and accelerate the deep transformation of industries; On the other hand, it can unleash massive industrial application scenarios, promote revolutionary breakthroughs in information technology and industrial technology, and lay an important foundation for the formation and development of new quality productivity. Focusing on cultivating and strengthening new quality productivity, we must grasp the inherent requirements of high technology, high efficiency, and high quality. Through the deep integration of informatization and industrialization, we must break away from traditional economic growth models and productivity development paths, promote technological revolutionary breakthroughs, innovative allocation of production factors, and deep industrial transformation and upgrading, and develop advanced productivity qualities that conform to the new development concept.
Accurately grasp the new situation faced by promoting the deep integration of informatization and industrialization
 
The foundation of industrial automation is becoming increasingly stable. In the field of industrial control systems, a number of high-quality enterprises have emerged, with rapid development of products such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs), monitoring and data acquisition systems (SCADA), and distributed control systems (DCS), and the domestic market share of some products continues to increase. In terms of industrial robots, China has been the world's largest consumer of industrial robots for 11 consecutive years. The latest data shows that the density of industrial robots in China has reached 470 units per 10000 people, far exceeding the global average level.
Deepening the digital transformation. We will deepen the implementation of digital transformation actions in the manufacturing industry, adhere to segmented policies, compile and issue implementation guidelines for digital transformation in 12 key industries, and build a digital transformation scene map for 14 key industries. As of the end of June 2025, the penetration rate of digital R&D design tools and the CNC rate of key processes in industrial enterprises have reached 84.0% and 66.8%, respectively. The pilot work of digital transformation for small and medium-sized enterprises in 100 cities has been accelerated and expanded, driving nearly 40000 small and medium-sized enterprises to carry out digital transformation and cultivating more than 10000 "small, fast, light and accurate" solutions. At the same time, China's software and information technology service industry is solidly promoting high-quality development. In the first half of 2025, software business revenue will reach 7058.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.9%, while cloud computing and big data services will achieve a total revenue of 743.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.1%.
Network connectivity extends globally. Deeply implement the industrial Internet innovation and development project, and integrate the deployment and application of the five systems of network, logo, platform, data and security. The construction of network infrastructure is globally leading, with 4.55 million 5G base stations and over 200 million gigabit users, achieving "gigabit connectivity in every county and 5G connectivity in every township". The logo analysis system has been fully completed. There are more than 340 influential industrial Internet platforms, more than 100 million sets of key platform equipment connections, nearly 4 million service enterprises, and 41 industrial categories have been fully covered to promote the development of industrial Internet into a new stage of large-scale application.
The momentum of intelligent upgrading is strong. The intelligent manufacturing engineering has been solidly promoted, breaking through a batch of intelligent manufacturing equipment and system solutions, and building more than 5400 advanced and 230 excellent intelligent factories, forming a batch of replicable and promotable intelligent manufacturing demonstration benchmarks. The rapid development of artificial intelligence has led to the emergence of a number of open-source and universal large-scale models, as well as large-scale models for industries such as steel and energy, providing a continuous source of intelligent power for industrial transformation and upgrading.
Overall, China's integration of industrialization and informatization has reached a new and higher starting point, while also facing new strategic opportunities and risk challenges. From the perspective of technological development, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is deepening, and technological innovation has entered an unprecedented period of intensive activity. Frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum technology, and biotechnology are emerging, and advanced manufacturing technologies that integrate robots, digitization, and new materials are accelerating the transformation of manufacturing towards intelligence, service, and green. Artificial intelligence has become a key variable affecting future development. From the perspective of the international situation, the global industrial chain, supply chain and value chain are undergoing in-depth adjustment, and unilateralism and protectionism are rising significantly. The world's major economies have increased their policy support for integrated development fields such as intelligent manufacturing, industrial Internet and digital supply chain, and seized the leading role in the formulation of digital technology standards and economic and trade rules. International competition in the integrated development field is becoming increasingly fierce, becoming the focus of the competition game among major countries. From the perspective of the domestic situation, China's industrial development is at an important juncture of climbing hills and turning from large to strong. The problem of unbalanced and insufficient development is still prominent, and the manufacturing industry is generally accelerating towards the middle and high end of the global value chain. The situation where key core technologies are subject to human control has not been fundamentally changed, and the digital technology innovation capability, innovation output, and innovation achievement transformation are insufficient. The digital development of traditional industries is relatively slow, and the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises is difficult. The potential value of data elements has not been effectively activated, and the advantages of digital economy development have not been fully transformed into the development capability of the real economy. The promotion of the integration of the two industries is a long and arduous task.
Strive to write a new chapter of deep integration of informatization and industrialization
Compared with China's strategic goal of accelerating the promotion of new industrialization and building a modern industrial system, the deep integration of informatization and industrialization still needs to be further deepened. We need to continuously improve institutional design, build a solid digital foundation, promote industrial transformation, and gather resource elements. We need to integrate deep integration throughout the entire process of industrial and information technology work, promote the leap from "physical superposition" to "chemical reaction" in the development of deep integration, and provide strong support for solidly promoting new industrialization, accelerating the construction of a manufacturing and network power.
Establish a sound system for the deep integration of informatization and industrialization. Improve the development mechanism, establish a mechanism to maintain a reasonable proportion of investment in the manufacturing industry, and focus on promoting stable growth of the industrial economy. Enhance governance level, innovate digital economy evaluation mechanism, improve the normalized supervision system of platform economy, build an artificial intelligence security governance system, and integrate supervision and governance throughout the entire process of innovation, production, operation, and investment. Improve the system of factor allocation, strengthen the research and formulation of institutional norms such as data trading circulation and open sharing, improve the mechanism of financial support for promoting new industrialization, and fully stimulate the vitality of capital, technology, data and other factors.
Strengthen the research and development of key core technologies. We will vigorously develop core basic components, core basic components, key basic materials, key software, advanced basic processes, and industrial technology foundations through the implementation of high-quality development actions for key manufacturing industry chains and industrial infrastructure reconstruction projects. Vigorously promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, accelerate the cultivation of innovative enterprises, promote the construction of more national level innovation platforms in enterprise layout, build a high-level industrial scientific and technological innovation platform network, and accelerate the construction of pilot and application verification platforms. Improve the application policies for the first unit (set), first batch, and first edition, introduce policies and measures to promote the high-quality development of the technology service industry, cultivate a national integrated technology market, promote more scientific and technological achievements from samples to products, and form industries.
Vigorously promote the innovative development of the digital industry. Strengthen digital industries such as cloud computing, big data, blockchain, virtual reality, and industrial software, explore the construction of an open source ecosystem with Chinese characteristics, accelerate the development of network and data security industries, and cultivate digital industry clusters with international competitiveness. Targeting the high ground of future technology and industrial development, accelerating technological innovation in new generation information technology, artificial intelligence, biomanufacturing, low altitude economy, humanoid robots, 6G, atomic level manufacturing and other fields, cultivating emerging and future industries. Properly advance the layout and construction of 5G, computing power and other new information infrastructure, accelerate the systematic development of industrial Internet, and strengthen the construction of network infrastructure security protection capacity.
Promote the high-end, intelligent, and green development of the manufacturing industry. Implement major technological upgrades and large-scale equipment updates in the manufacturing industry, develop implementation plans for digital transformation in key industries, carry out special actions for digital empowerment of small and medium-sized enterprises and pilot cities for digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, systematically, graphically, and standardizedly promote the transformation process, and enhance traditional industries through digital technology transformation. Promote the empowerment of new industrialization with artificial intelligence, carry out the "Artificial Intelligence+Manufacturing" action, build high-quality industrial data corpora, and cultivate several general large-scale models, industry large-scale models, and intelligent agents. Deeply implement intelligent manufacturing engineering, vigorously develop intelligent products and equipment, and intelligent factories. Accelerate the collaborative transformation and development of digital greening, accelerate the innovation, research and application of digital greening integration technology, deeply implement green manufacturing projects, and build a green manufacturing and service system.
Promote the aggregation of advanced production factors into integrated fields. Build a high-quality integration standard system of industrialization and informatization, enhance the internationalization level of standards, and lead the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries with the improvement of national standards. Deepen the integration of industry and education, school enterprise cooperation, strengthen the construction of new engineering disciplines, support industry enterprises, vocational colleges, public training bases, etc., and carry out large-scale vocational skills training. Strengthen diversified and relay style financial services, leverage the role of the national industry finance cooperation platform, expand the implementation of the "Technology Industry Financial Integration" special project, and promote a virtuous cycle of technology industry finance. Accelerate the development of the data element market, cultivate data industry operators, accelerate the layout of key industry data space construction, promote data value mining and creation, and better empower the development of new quality productivity.
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