- The ministry is drafting measures for a new generation of smart manufacturing.
- The report describes support for smart factories and intelligent industrial equipment.
Policy work under way
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is drafting measures for a new generation of smart manufacturing, according to an October 21 report in People’s Daily Overseas Edition. The newspaper’s account of an October 20 government briefing says the work aims to integrate artificial intelligence more deeply across manufacturing.
Chief engineer Wang Weiming described priorities including developing smart factories, intelligent equipment, technical research and applications, and international cooperation. The report presents these as areas of policy work, with no implementation timetable or funding allocation specified.
Factories and equipment
The report says China has built more than 13,000 advanced-level and over 500 excellence-level smart factories, and cultivated 15 leading-tier (领航级) smart factories. It attributes those figures to the country’s ongoing AI-plus-manufacturing effort.
Wang also described support for intelligent machine tools, robots, inspection equipment and control systems. The stated goals include more adaptive processing, flexible operations and online inspection. Those plans indicate where the ministry wants AI adoption to expand; they do not establish that the proposed measures have already been issued.
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