Calls for greater push on high-end manufacturing

China will step up efforts to boost high-end and intelligent equipment manufacturing, and accelerate innovations in sensor and control system as well as industrial software to upgrade the country's traditional industries, said Xin Guobin, vice-minister of Industry and Information Technology.

"The major direction of the Made in China 2025 strategy is intelligent manufacturing, with a key issue of applying more sensors, industry control systems and an industry internet system to realize intelligent decision-making," Xin said, adding efforts in this regard should be strengthened.

"We will continue to promote the development of high-end numerical control machine tools, basic manufacturing equipment, domestically developed planes and other important technical innovation projects."