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Made in China 2025: All stories

Made in China 2025: All stories
Launched by Premier Li Keqiang in 2015, the “Made in China 2025" strategy aims to guide the country’s industrial modernisation, including the substitution of foreign technology with innovation developed on the mainland.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
An employee works at a car parts factory in Qingzhou, Shandong province, China, on December 9. China’s car industry is an example of “involution”: overcrowding caused by an influx of financial resources and factors of production. Photo: AFP
China economy

Opinion | How China’s fast-transforming economy can avoid painful L-shaped growth

The country has all the tools – and resilience – it needs to adapt to its new geopolitical environment and accelerate the domestic transformation.

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China economy

Opinion | China’s plan for ‘new productive forces’ should make the West sit up

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US-China relations

US Chamber of Commerce cites ‘Made in China 2025’ concerns after Beijing trip

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US-China tech war

Washington – and Arizona – dangle subsidies as US chip-making business returns

Rising in the desert near Phoenix is a US$12 billion semiconductor factory owned by Taiwan’s TSMC, with the company lured by US funding and tax credits.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
China economy

The View | China’s plan to unify domestic market puts cohesion over local needs

While an integrated market with one set of rules will improve efficiency and connectivity, it could limit the ability of regions and cities to respond to local needs. Centralisation is also likely to exacerbate the problems of smaller cities as business and people are drawn to megacities.

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Japan

Most Japanese worry about China invading Taiwan, polls show

Signs are growing that people are concerned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could induce Beijing to make similar offensives; Japan sees neighbour Taiwan’s security as closely linked to its own.

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US-China relations

US drops charges against MIT professor accused of lying about China ties

Department of Justice admits that it cannot prove its case, which was brought as part of its initiative to stop scientists from sharing sensitive technology with China.

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Gang Chen, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. MIT/Handout via Reuters
China economy

The View | From China to Germany, why industrial policy is on the agenda

Industrial policy, which fell out of favour with economists by the end of the 20th century, is making a comeback. Developing countries need manufacturing and industrial policies more than ever to close the technology gap with developed nations.

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China-EU relations

China’s investments in Europe plunge amid pandemic, squeeze on foreign buyers

Chinese and Russian purchases in particular can expect to face review and scrutiny under the EU’s investment screening mechanisms.

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Inside Out & Outside In

Outside In | Who says China is retreating into splendid self-isolation?

China’s trade and FDI numbers continue to rise and its industrial policies aim to strengthen the domestic economy and plug manufacturing vulnerabilities – not decouple from the rest of the world.

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Visitors take photos with Jinbao, the mascot of the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, November 8. Chinese importers inked deals amounting to US$70.72 billion. What evidence here of the xenophobic shunning of foreign goods? Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

Exclusive | How professors in Hong Kong built the world’s largest AI unicorn

China’s AI industry may triple to 453.26 billion yuan in value by 2025 from last year, while a broader AI-driven industry may be as large as 1.66 trillion yuan, which underscores the strategic importance of the field in the Made in China 2025 industrial master plan.

Illustration: Henry Wong
Aviation

As China’s aviation dream takes off, local governments rush to cash in

Local governments have invested heavily in industrial estates for aviation in recent years, reflecting Beijing’s goal of self-sufficiency amid heated competition with the US.

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US-China relations

Opinion | US-China cooperation in three areas can overcome Alaska acrimony

Despite the fire and fury on display at their recent meeting, both sides have ample reason to explore a ‘grand bargain’.They must address the trade and tech wars, rising military tensions and existential threats such as climate change and Covid-19.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Electric car makers find opportunity in crisis of global chip shortage

Amid the calamity, electric car assemblers have emerged mostly unscathed, delivering record numbers of new-energy vehicles (NEVs) – as they are called in China – to buyers, kept above the fray because of their smaller capacity and their tendency to use higher-end chips.

Illustration: Brian Wang/SCMP
Electric & new energy vehicles

China keeps 20 per cent sales target for home-grown electric cars

The Made in China 2025 plan charted China’s ambitions to lead the world in 10 key areas of technology by the middle of the next decade, from 5G telecommunications to artificial intelligence and electric vehicles.

Image of the P7 all-electric sedan made by Xpeng Motor in the Guangdong provincial city of Zhaoqing. Photo: Hand out
Electric & new energy vehicles

The perfect electric car for China needs to go far, at an affordable price

The Chinese government aims to turn the largest market for vehicles on the planet into a self-reliant powerhouse for the new technology under the Made in China 2025 industrial master plan.

Greater Bay Area

Greater Bay Area is home to four of China’s 10 top appliance makers

The report underscores the role of Guangdong province as China’s manufacturing hub, where everything from high-tech gadgets to household appliances are made.

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China economy

China’s state-owned giants tasked with creating global industrial champions

Beijing has not discussed its strategic ‘Made in China 2025’ policy plan since the trade war began with the US, but the initiative’s spirit lives on.

The state-owned China National Petroleum is currently the world’s fourth-largest company, on the latest Fortune Global 500 list. Photo: Xinhua
China’s military

Has China gone into stealth mode with its military-civil fusion plans?

There was no apparent word in this year’s government work report of the defence strategy that has raised alarm in Washington.

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Huawei

How Huawei hones its ‘wolf culture’: make staff the co-owners

Huawei’s staff shareholding structure turns its eligible employees into stakeholders, engendering the kind of kinship and shared responsibility that contribute to its ‘wolf culture’.

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US-China relations

US moves in on top universities over fear of Chinese funding, IP leaks

Charles Lieber, charged with lying over his ties to China, received US$50,000 a month and US$1.5 million to start a research lab in Wuhan, prosecutors allege.

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Charles Lieber, charged with lying over his ties to China, received US$50,000 a month and US$1.5 million to start a research lab in Wuhan, prosecutors allege. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
The View

There’s more to building the Made in China brand than Huawei and Xiaomi

As part of its economic transformation, China needs to encourage brand building. For the best lessons, it must look beyond its high-profile tech titans and at traditional manufacturers like home-appliance label Casarte.

Chinese home appliance maker Haier’s headquarters in Qingdao, eastern China, in 2014. Casarte is a successful premium brand under Haier. Photo: AP
Luxury cruises

China sets sight on building cruise vessels for polar expeditions

Shipbuilding is one of the 10 core technologies included in Beijing's “Made in China 2025" industrial strategy, an ambitious plan that will help the country catch up with global leaders in 10 key industrial sectors.

China economy

Northeastern rust belt sees ‘Made in China 2025’ plan a linchpin of its future

Liaoning province is pinning its hopes on the plan, a lightning rod in the US-China trade war, to turn around inefficient industries and revitalise growth.

US-China tech war

China closes second round of Big Fund aimed at boosting domestic chip R&D

The Big Fund is aimed at leading national efforts to catch up in the global semiconductor industry by backing chip start-ups and semiconductor research and development.

The value of China’s annual chip imports has surpassed oil in recent years, surging to US$312 billion in 2018. Photo: REUTERS
China economy

China will need ‘more than 35 years to upgrade to hi-tech manufacturing’

Study by Renmin University of China in Beijing says it will take more than 35 years to reach the government’s goal that new industries account for 30 per cent of GDP.

Over the last decade, China has launched several industrial plans aimed at development of hi-tech industries that would hope to make China the world leader in a series of cutting-edge manufacturing fields. Photo: EPA
Made in China 2025

China is doing, not talking, when it comes to its tech development blueprint

The profile has been lowered, yet ‘Made in China 2025’ continues to channel state-sponsored investment into the technology sector

Taiwan

Taiwan IT firms join exodus from China amid trade war

Assuming between 30 to 50 per cent of Taiwanese tech firms leave China, up to 3 million jobs could be lost, according to Citibank.

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