An important direction for the structural adjustment of the equipment manufacturing industry is high-end leadership. At present, the output value of China's high-end equipment manufacturing industry accounts for more than 10% of the equipment manufacturing industry, but the problem of insufficient independent innovation capability remains serious. Industry insiders believe that in the future, three tasks should be focused on: strengthening the dominant position of enterprises in technological innovation, improving innovative design capabilities, and strengthening research and development of key generic technologies, striving to promote intelligent manufacturing on the basis of digital manufacturing and basically form an international competitive advantage in high-end manufacturing.

At the National Equipment Industry Work Conference held on April 2, Su Bo, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in an interview with our reporter that the transformation and upgrading of key industries in China's national economy, the cultivation and development of strategic emerging industries, and the construction of major national projects have put forward new market demands and higher requirements for the greening, intelligentization, and servitization of the equipment manufacturing industry. By 2020, the share of China's high-end equipment manufacturing industry in the equipment manufacturing industry will increase to 25%, becoming a pillar industry of the national economy.

Data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show that China's equipment manufacturing industry holds many world No. 1 rankings. In 2013, the output value of China's equipment manufacturing industry exceeded 20 trillion yuan, accounting for more than one-third of the global equipment manufacturing industry and ranking first in the world. Among them, the output of most equipment products ranks first in the world. However, with the reduction of the demographic dividend, the rapid growth of land and logistics costs, and the continued appreciation of the RMB, the traditional advantages of the equipment manufacturing industry are weakening. The era of ultra-high-speed annual growth of 25% in the equipment manufacturing industry has ended, and production in some industries has approached or reached historical peaks.

Su Bo pointed out that an important direction for the structural adjustment of the equipment manufacturing industry is high-end leadership. It is necessary to focus on industrial transformation and upgrading, vigorously develop high-end equipment manufacturing industries such as intelligent manufacturing, new energy vehicles, marine engineering equipment, high-grade CNC machine tools, and aerospace, and lead the industry toward the high end of the value chain.

According to statistics, at present the output value of China's high-end equipment manufacturing industry accounts for more than 10% of the equipment manufacturing industry. But overall, the problem of insufficient independent innovation capability in China's high-end equipment manufacturing industry remains serious. In this regard, Su Bo said that in the future, three tasks should be focused on, including strengthening the dominant position of enterprises in technological innovation, improving innovative design capabilities, and strengthening research and development of key generic technologies.

Su Bo also said that before 2020, on the basis of digital manufacturing, key industries should be selected to carry out intelligent manufacturing pilots, and after 2020, intelligent manufacturing should be fully implemented to basically form an international competitive advantage in high-end manufacturing.