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How Beijing plans to lead the world with ‘Made in China 2025’

Aimed at closing the technology gap with the West and lessening China’s dependency on imported tech, it specified key areas where the country should take the lead.

Updated: 16 Sep, 2020
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Exclusive | How threatened should the West be by China’s technology master plan?

The ‘Made in China 2025’ plan aims to break China’s reliance on foreign technology and pull its hi-tech industries up to Western levels. But it has become a lightning rod for Washington’s ire in its trade war with Beijing. This article – the first in a series on the plan – explains how it became the centre of so much attention.

10 Sep, 2018
The ‘Made in China 2025’ plan aims to break China’s reliance on foreign technology and pull its hi-tech industries up to Western levels. But it has become a lightning rod for Washington’s ire in its trade war with Beijing. This article – the first in a series on the plan – explains how it became the centre of so much attention
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Exclusive | A robot revolution is under way at the ‘world’s factory’. Here’s why

In the second report in a series, He Huifeng and Celia Chen look at how Beijing's ambitious industrial plan aims to break China’s reliance on foreign technology and pull its hi-tech industries up to Western levels

18 Sep, 2018
In the second report in a series, He Huifeng and Celia Chen look at how Beijing's ambitious industrial plan aims to break China’s reliance on foreign technology and pull its hi-tech industries up to Western levels
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Exclusive | China wants to catch up in semiconductors, and new tech may let it do that

24 Sep, 2018
Silicon wafers at a semiconductor plant. China is looking to upgrade its semiconductor industry to global levels in a bid to become a hi-tech powerhouse commensurate with its economic might. Photo: Shutterstock
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Exclusive | Is China really snapping at the heels of the US as an AI superpower?

The fourth instalment of a series on China’s hi-tech industry development master plan looks at artificial intelligence (AI) and its promise to lift the country’s industries up the value chain

01 Oct, 2018
An artificial intelligence system backed by facial recognition which can used in mobile payments is demonstrated at the 3rd World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit on November 26, 2016. Photo: Simon Song
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Exclusive | China is making better, cheaper drugs – and its reasons may surprise you

China’s big ambitions to become a powerhouse of pharmaceutical innovation is as much about the well-being of its people as it is about narrowing the gap with the West.

08 Oct, 2018
China’s big ambitions to become a powerhouse of pharmaceutical innovation is as much about the well-being of its people as it is about narrowing the gap with the West
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‘Made in China 2025’: Beijing has big plans for 5G – if the world lets it

15 Oct, 2018
The fifth instalment of a series on China’s hi-tech industry development master plan looks at 5G mobile technology and how it could create a more advanced digital foundation for the world’s second-largest economy
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Exclusive | China’s drive to become world’s most powerful electric car maker

This seventh instalment in an ongoing series on China’s industrial strategy to advance manufacturing looks at Beijing’s effort to build a world-leading electric vehicle sector

22 Oct, 2018
Tesla is building its first factory outside the US in Shanghai, taking advantage of Beijing’s abolition of foreign ownership restriction in the auto industry. Photo: AFP
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China’s aviation industry has a steep climb to ‘Made in China 2025’ goals

China expects home-made commercial aircraft to supply 10 per cent of the domestic market and regional jetliners to account for up to 20 per cent of the global market by 2025.

29 Oct, 2018
China’s jet engine technology is estimated to be at least 20 years behind global leaders. Photo: Imaginechina