On July 23, Huang Libin, director of the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and spokesman, said at a press conference on the development of the industrial communications industry in the first half of 2019 that the manufacturing industry is the foundation of a country and the foundation of a strong country. The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry and regard it as an important support for steady growth, efforts should be made to "strengthen, innovate, optimize the structure, promote integration, strengthen enterprises and optimize the environment" to promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.

The main work and progress are as follows:

One is to enhance the technological innovation capability of the manufacturing industry.Adopt the new mechanism of "uncovering the list", organize and carry out the work of uncovering the key tasks of innovation in the new generation of artificial intelligence industry, and speed up breakthroughs in key areas. We will improve the construction of the manufacturing innovation system, and this year, we will newly approve the construction of four national manufacturing innovation centers, including intelligent network vehicles, rail transit equipment, agricultural machinery equipment, and advanced functional fibers. A total of 13 national manufacturing innovation centers have been approved, and 107 provincial manufacturing innovation centers have been identified. Around the industrial "four bases", a "package" breakthrough and "one-stop" application have been carried out to continuously improve the industrial basic capacity.

The second is to promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure.Vigorously promote the technological transformation of enterprises and promote the digital, networked and intelligent upgrading of traditional industries. Implement green manufacturing projects, promote the development of key areas such as Internet of Vehicles, robots, and intelligent voice, and issue policy documents such as the "Internet of Vehicles (Intelligent Connected Vehicles) Industry Development Action Plan" and "Robot Industry Development Plan", and support the establishment of Jiangsu (Wuxi) The car networking pilot area, approved the establishment of the Shanghai (Pudong New Area) artificial intelligence innovation application pilot area, innovated cluster cultivation methods, and organized public bidding, A number of advanced manufacturing clusters have been fostered.

The third is to improve the level of integration and development.In-depth implementation of intelligent manufacturing engineering, cultivate a number of benchmarking enterprises, promote the application of national intelligent manufacturing standards, and develop and expand intelligent manufacturing system solution suppliers. In-depth promotion of "Internet" and "intelligence" to empower the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry. We will implement the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry and accelerate the construction of the standard system for the integration of the two and the promotion of the standard. Promote big data applications and pilot demonstrations, select 94 outstanding cases with industry representativeness and demonstration, and promote about 50 companies to complete the data management capability maturity assessment.

Four is to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.We will thoroughly implement the law on the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises, implement various policies and measures to promote the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, improve the construction of public service platform for small and medium-sized enterprises, cultivate more specialized and new "little giant" enterprises and single champion enterprises, announce the list of the first batch of 248 specialized and new "little giant" enterprises, and carry out the action plan to promote the integration and development of large and medium-sized enterprises, Improve the professional ability and level of small enterprises.

Fifth, create a good environment for development.The manufacturing value-added tax rate has been reduced from 16% to 13%, issued and implemented guidelines to promote the healthy development of small and medium-sized enterprises, organized special actions to clean up the work of small and medium-sized enterprises in arrears with private enterprises, implemented policies and measures for financial support for the development of the manufacturing industry, and promoted industry-finance Cooperation pilot. Signed strategic cooperation agreements with financial institutions such as China Pacific Insurance Group and China Construction Bank to deepen the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry. Clarify the timetable for the opening of automobiles, remove restrictions on foreign investment in the smelting of rare earth and other mineral resources, rice paper and ink ingot production, and the general manufacturing industry has been fully opened to the outside world.