Nine key areas for boosting China's manufacturing

The Three-year Action Plan to Enhance the Core Competence of the Manufacturing Industry (2018-2020) was released by the National Development and Reform Commission on Nov 27.

The plan highlighted nine core fields, including rail transport equipment, high-end marine vessel and engineering equipment and intelligent robots.

It set goals to achieve breakthroughs and advance industrialization in key technologies in these areas and create manufacturing brands with global influence by 2020.

Here is a full list of the nine areas.

1 Rail transport equipment