On December 7, Li Lecheng, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, chaired a strategic planning meeting to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and to research and plan the work ideas and measures for the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and the opening year. Ministry leaders Xin Guobin, Ye Min, Zhang Yunming, Xiong Jijun, Ke Jixin, Shan Zhongde, Xie Yuansheng, Zhang Jianmin, Gao Dongsheng, Xie Shaofeng, and Zhong Zhihong attended the meeting, speaking one by one in light of the work in their respective areas of responsibility, exchanging learning insights, analyzing and assessing the current situation, and putting forward opinions and suggestions.

All participants agreed that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts toward basically realizing socialist modernization. The "Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development," deliberated and adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, has drawn up a grand blueprint for China's development over the next five years and is a programmatic document guiding national economic and social development. The entire system must study and comprehend it in depth, deeply understand and grasp the new situation, new tasks, and new requirements facing industry and information technology during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, keenly seize opportunities, effectively guard against risks, and seize the initiative in development. It is necessary to thoroughly study and comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on new industrialization, seize the strategic opportunities of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, proactively respond to profound and complex changes in the external environment, advance the modernization of industry governance, accelerate the advancement of new industrialization, build a manufacturing powerhouse and a cyber powerhouse, and build a strong material and technological foundation for Chinese-style modernization.

Li Lecheng pointed out that advancing new industrialization is a historical process of step-by-step progression and continuous development and progress. Both the 20th CPC National Congress and the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee clearly proposed basically realizing new industrialization by 2035. As the five years that connect the past and the future, the "15th Five-Year Plan" period must consolidate the foundation and make comprehensive efforts. Consolidating the foundation means shoring up weaknesses, forging strengths, and seizing the initiative, striving to maintain a reasonable proportion of the manufacturing industry, optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries and future industries, strengthening the cultivation of high-quality enterprises, and enhancing the resilience and security level of industrial and supply chains, so as to make the development foundation more stable and more resilient and lay a more solid foundation for basically realizing new industrialization. Making comprehensive efforts means focusing on the goals and tasks of advancing new industrialization and making coordinated efforts, promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, vigorously advancing intelligent, green, and integrated development, accelerating the building of a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as its backbone, promoting the manufacturing industry's strategic leap from key breakthroughs to comprehensive leadership, and achieving notable results in promoting high-quality development of industry and information technology.

Li Lecheng emphasized that 2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and it is necessary to thoroughly implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, strengthen tracking, analysis, and assessment of the situation, and carefully plan the work ideas and key tasks for next year. It is necessary to make great efforts in "strengthening the sinews and bones" and value creation, striving for excellence with superiority and winning with quality, and fully promoting the steady growth of the industrial economy. It is necessary to focus on comprehensively rectifying "involution-style" competition, further comprehensively deepen reform, adhere to governance according to law, strengthen industry self-discipline, implement regulatory responsibilities, strive to solve prominent difficulties and problems in industries and enterprises, and stimulate the innovation and entrepreneurial vitality of various business entities. It is necessary to pay more attention to coordinating development and security, strengthen bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, promptly resolve risks and hidden dangers, safeguard the security of key industrial and supply chains, enhance security guarantee capabilities in fields such as networks, data, and artificial intelligence, form competitive advantages, and win strategic initiative.

The principal responsible comrades of all departments and bureaus of the Ministry attended the meeting and made exchange speeches.