The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that a new type of industrialization should be basically realized by 2035, emphasizing that the focus of economic development should be placed on the real economy, the new type of industrialization should be promoted, and the building of a strong manufacturing country should be accelerated. The Central Economic Work Conference held in December 2022 stressed the need to accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, and made arrangements for the development of China’s manufacturing industry and digital economy. This has pointed out the way forward and provided fundamental guidelines for the development of China’s industry and information technology. We must deeply understand and accurately grasp the significance of promoting the new type of industrialization, the situation and the mission and tasks we face, effectively unify our thoughts and actions with the spirit of the Party’s 20th National Congress and the Central Economic Work Conference, and make real efforts to implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and see results.

First, deeply understand the significance of promoting a new type of industrialization

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Promoting a new type of industrialization is an inevitable requirement for realizing Chinese-style modernization. Industrialization is the prerequisite and foundation of modernization. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, especially since reform and opening-up, it has taken us several decades to complete the industrialization process that took Western developed countries hundreds of years, creating a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. Both history and reality show that to advance industrialization in a big developing country like China with a population of over 1.4 billion, we should not only follow the general rules of world industrialization, but also take a new path of industrialization with Chinese characteristics based on our national conditions. On a new journey in the new era, this new type of industrialization has new connotations and features. It is an industrialization that adheres to the direction of socialist market economic reform, adheres to a high level of opening up, and accelerates the establishment of a new development pattern. It is an industrialization that takes as its starting point and goal the people’s aspirations for a better life and promotes common prosperity for all. It is about building a modern industrial system and accelerating progress towards the middle and high end of the global value chain. It is about maintaining harmony between man and nature and promoting green and low-carbon development. It is about adapting to the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation and promoting the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy. To advance the new type of industrialization, we must accurately grasp the characteristics of The Times and its connotation requirements, change the development mode, innovate the development path, and accelerate the process of Chinese-style modernization with the new results of the development of new industrialization.

Promoting a new type of industrialization is the fundamental support for building a great modern socialist country in all respects. The Party’s 20th National Congress drew up a blueprint for building China into a great modern socialist country, which aims to basically realize socialist modernization by 2035 and build China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful by the middle of this century. To achieve this ambitious goal, we must significantly increase our economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and overall national strength, achieve self-reliance in science and technology at a high level, build a modern economic system, form a new pattern of development, basically achieve a new type of industrialization, IT application, urbanization, agricultural modernization, and basically modernize national defense and the armed forces. Industry is the foundation of a country’s comprehensive national strength, and it is an important support for building a strong agricultural country, a strong science and technology country, a strong quality country, a strong space country, a strong transportation country, a strong network country, a digital China and a world-class military. For a big country like ours, without a strong industry, it is difficult to achieve the goal of becoming a modern power. We must accelerate the development of a new type of industrialization, accelerate the building of a strong manufacturing country, strengthen, improve and expand the real economy, and provide a strong material foundation, technological support and spiritual impetus for building a great modern socialist country in all respects.