China embraces smarter 'Made in China'

More digital, more dynamic

On May 8, the world's largest manufacturing base for high-end underground engineering equipment was completed and put into operation in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan province. It aims to promote the intelligent development of China's heavy industry through efficiently automated production lines, robotic workstations, and intelligent logistics systems.

China has built more than 200 digital/intelligent factories, and had become the biggest intelligent manufacturing market in the world, said a report released at the World Intelligent Manufacturing Summit held in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu province, in October.

China's intelligent manufacturing market will exceed 220 billion yuan ($31.8 billion) by 2020, said the report. As an important driving force of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, intelligent manufacturing is in full swing in China.

Intelligent manufacturing has pushed forward the overall systematic transformation of the traditional modes of production and organization, and promoted the reengineering of industrial chains and the upgrading of value chains, said Zhang Liqun, a researcher with the Development Research Center of the State Council.

"The upsurge of intelligent manufacturing has pushed the national economy to better achieve high-quality development and injected the new driving force into the steady economic growth," Zhang said.