Emerging industries to grow faster

Breakthroughs in graphene production and application are expected in next few years

China's emerging industries - information, manufacturing, biology, environment management and digital technology - will each attain an output scale of around 10 trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion) by 2020, according to the Plan on Strategic New Industries During the 13th Five-Year-Plan (2016-20) released by the State Council on Tuesday.

The plan states that the added value of these industries will increase from 8 percent of GDP in 2015 to 15 percent by 2020, creating 1 million jobs each year on average.