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Exclusive | As Beijing’s ‘Made in China 2025’ plan nears finish line, how well has it done?

Almost 10 years after the ‘Made in China 2025’ targets were drawn up, we investigate just how many have been achieved.

  • Sanctions and tariffs implemented as part of a US-led trade war have put increased pressure on China’s manufacturing industry
  • Despite that, a Post investigation can reveal a large proportion of the ‘Made in China 2025’ 10-year targets have been achieved

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Opinion | China’s plan for ‘new productive forces’ should make the West sit up

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US Chamber of Commerce cites ‘Made in China 2025’ concerns after Beijing trip

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New US chip factories are rising but billions in federal funds have yet to flow

Makers of advanced semiconductors are awaiting US$52 billion in incentives to help American companies ‘win the race for the 21st century’ against China.

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US lawmakers press intelligence chiefs on Covid origins, threat from TikTok

Ex-CDC chief urges push to show what data intelligence community has, ‘where they got it, who their informants were and what their conclusions were’.

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Olympic mascots made in China leave French with red faces

Choice of cuddly toy proving hard sell after it emerges that just 8 per cent of mascot will be produced in France

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Tesla’s rivals Nio and Xpeng refuse to tap brakes on European expansion

Shanghai-based Nio and Guangzhou-headquartered Xpeng are launching new models, signing more sales agencies and building charging facilities in European markets.

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An employee works near a Chinese Nio electric car at Nio’s first European plant and power swap station in Biatorbagy, Hungary, on September 16, 2022. Photo: Reuters

Washington – and Arizona – dangle subsidies as US chip-making business returns

Rising in the desert near Phoenix is a US$12 billion semiconductor factory owned by Taiwan’s TSMC, with the company lured by US funding and tax credits.

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Elon Musk: ‘simply a fact’ that China leads in renewable energy, EVs

“Few seem to realise that China is leading the world in renewable energy generation and electric vehicles,” he said in a post on China’s Twitter-like Weibo social-media platform on Monday. “Whatever you may think of China, this is simply a fact.”

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US drops charges against MIT professor accused of lying about China ties

Department of Justice admits that it cannot prove its case, which was brought as part of its initiative to stop scientists from sharing sensitive technology with China.

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Gang Chen, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. MIT/Handout via Reuters

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The View | From China to Germany, why industrial policy is on the agenda

Industrial policy, which fell out of favour with economists by the end of the 20th century, is making a comeback. Developing countries need manufacturing and industrial policies more than ever to close the technology gap with developed nations.

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As Harvard professor’s trial begins, new scrutiny of US ‘China Initiative’

Asian-American groups hope the trial and resulting publicity will help put an end to the programme, which was started in 2018 to stem the loss of scientific secrets to China.

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China’s investments in Europe plunge amid pandemic, squeeze on foreign buyers

Chinese and Russian purchases in particular can expect to face review and scrutiny under the EU’s investment screening mechanisms.

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The Chinese conglomerate Cosco has bought a 35 per cent stake in the Port of Hamburg, Europe’s third-busiest. Photo: SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire/dpa

Outside In | Who says China is retreating into splendid self-isolation?

China’s trade and FDI numbers continue to rise and its industrial policies aim to strengthen the domestic economy and plug manufacturing vulnerabilities – not decouple from the rest of the world.

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Visitors take photos with Jinbao, the mascot of the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, November 8. Chinese importers inked deals amounting to US$70.72 billion. What evidence here of the xenophobic shunning of foreign goods? Photo: Xinhua

China pushes hi-tech factories to reassert manufacturing dominance

The Chinese government is supporting R&D efforts for advanced manufacturing, bringing more automation and robots to the factory floor.

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Exclusive | How professors in Hong Kong built the world’s largest AI unicorn

China’s AI industry may triple to 453.26 billion yuan in value by 2025 from last year, while a broader AI-driven industry may be as large as 1.66 trillion yuan, which underscores the strategic importance of the field in the Made in China 2025 industrial master plan.

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As China’s aviation dream takes off, local governments rush to cash in

Local governments have invested heavily in industrial estates for aviation in recent years, reflecting Beijing’s goal of self-sufficiency amid heated competition with the US.

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Comac’s C919, China's first commercial passenger jet, takes off from Pudong International Airport in Shanghai. Photo: AFP

China pivots to building EV charging piles after bitcoin mining ban

China’s ban on cryptocurrency mining forced a pivot in electricity capacity usage that could help speed up electric-vehicle sales in the world’s largest auto market.

Academics accelerate efforts to promote China’s government-led economic model

Leading Chinese academics have launched the Journal of Government and Economics, an English-language publication that seeks to explore the proper roles of government and free markets in economic development.

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Letters | China knows better than to rely on American tech

American suppliers are very worried about losing China as both a key node in global manufacturing and as a key export market. By contrast, the Chinese government is far more proactively planning for the future.

A Kunpeng 920 chip is unveiled by Chinese telecom giant Huawei during a ceremony in Shenzhen. China is prioritising the development of its semiconductor sector as the US restricts exports of technology. Photo: AP

Opinion | US-China cooperation in three areas can overcome Alaska acrimony

Despite the fire and fury on display at their recent meeting, both sides have ample reason to explore a ‘grand bargain’.They must address the trade and tech wars, rising military tensions and existential threats such as climate change and Covid-19.

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Electric car makers find opportunity in crisis of global chip shortage

Amid the calamity, electric car assemblers have emerged mostly unscathed, delivering record numbers of new-energy vehicles (NEVs) – as they are called in China – to buyers, kept above the fray because of their smaller capacity and their tendency to use higher-end chips.

Technology key to China’s vision for the future as a world leading power

Ambitious road map unveiled at National People’s Congress to transform the country by 2035.

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China unveils plan to reshape manufacturing with internet of things

China plans to modernise its manufacturing sector to ensure its global competitiveness with advancements in 5G, cloud computing and the internet of things.

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China plans a technology-driven transformation of manufacturing to offset rising production costs. Photo: Xinhua

Multinational factories make Dongguan the ideal bay area manufacturing hub

Dongguan is the fifth-largest city in the Greater Bay Area by size of economy, boosted by investments by the likes of Swire Pacific, Samsung and Gillette.

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Workers produce undergarments at a Cosmo Lady factory in Dongguan. Photo: Reuters

Opinion | Three reasons China’s economy is strong but not invincible

China’s economy is surging while the rest of the world struggles with the pandemic. Even so, China’s demographic time bomb, an only partially liberal financial market and systemic weakness in frontier science and technologies threaten its rise.

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China’s factories must be ‘armed with automation’ as virus gives robots a boost

Trade war with US saw many companies relocate outside China, but orders came back last year as Chinese production rapidly rebounded from the coronavirus, and a robotics boom is expected in 2021.

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Made in China 2025
Launched by Premier Li Keqiang in 2015, the “Made in China 2025" strategy aims to guide the country’s industrial modernisation, including the substitution of foreign technology with innovation developed on the mainland.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
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