CCTV News:According to the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce recently issued a work plan for the steady growth of light industry (2023— In 2024), the details are as follows.
Work plan for steady growth of light industry
(2023— 2024)
Light industry is the dominant industry in China’s national economy and the industry of people’s livelihood, and it has strong competitiveness in the world. In 2022, the added value of young industries accounts for 16.2% of all industries, which is an important force for the steady growth of industrial economy. In order to implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Central Economic Work Conference, and fully implement the deployment of the government work report, according to the requirements of the Ministry’s work points and tasks, we should give priority to steady growth, promote effective improvement of quality and reasonable growth of quantity, strive to achieve the main expected goals of industrial economic development, and formulate a work plan for steady growth of light industry (2023— 2024).
I. Guiding ideology
Guided by the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, implement the Central Economic Work Conference and the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, adhere to the general tone of striving for progress while maintaining stability, base on the new stage of development, completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, and build a new development pattern, with the theme of promoting high-quality development and the purpose of meeting the people’s growing needs for a better life. Combine the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening the structural reform on the supply side, adhere to the problem orientation and goal orientation, focus on stabilizing key industries, give play to the leading role of key regions, focus on optimizing the supply structure, improve the overall efficiency of the industrial chain, focus on innovating consumption scenarios, boost and expand consumer demand, promote the steady growth of light industry, and provide support for the overall improvement of economic operation.
Second, the main objectives
2023— In 2024, the average growth rate of the added value of young industries was about 4%, and the scale of business income of enterprises exceeded 25 trillion yuan. The scale of key industries has risen steadily, and the international market share of major products has remained stable. New growth points have developed rapidly, more than 300 upgraded and innovative products have been promoted, the competitiveness of top 100 light industry enterprises has been further enhanced, and 50 light industry clusters with a scale of more than 30 billion yuan have been cultivated and upgraded. The role of light industry in expanding domestic demand and promoting consumption has become more prominent. The development of high-end, digital and green has been steadily advanced, the effect of "increasing varieties, improving quality and creating brands" has been expanded, and the quality and efficiency of industrial development have been continuously improved.
Third, work initiatives
(1) Focus on stabilizing key industries.
Household goods. Organize the National High-end Intelligent Household Appliance Innovation Center to accelerate the breakthrough of key common technologies such as intelligent technology, key components and application of new materials. Implement the action plan for high-quality development of the home industry, carry out smart home interconnection development actions, strengthen standard guidance and platform construction, and promote the integrated development of household appliances, furniture, hardware products, lighting appliances and other industries. Actively develop and promote green smart household appliances, leisure and entertainment, personal care and maternal and child household appliances, healthy kitchen and bathroom, intelligent multi-scene lighting system, natural furniture, functional furniture, smart locks and other products. Promote new modes such as flexible production, personalized customization and whole house customization. Promote the integration and application of lighting and electrical appliances industry with agriculture, cultural tourism, education, urban landscape and rural construction. Carry out the action of "Beautiful Home in 100 Enterprises, Thousands of Counties and Thousands of Villages" to promote green smart home products to enter the countryside and create a beautiful village life. Organize activities such as the home rejuvenation season, and encourage qualified places to carry out green smart home appliances to the countryside and trade-in activities.
Plastic products. Expand the application of special engineering plastics, high-end optical films and battery separators in national defense, aerospace, new energy, electronic information and transportation. Promote new antibacterial materials and other medical plastics, and give play to the advantages of plastic products in medical devices, consumables and drug packaging. Accelerate the production and application of plastic water-saving equipment, long-life functional agricultural films, thermal insulation boards, special pipes, plastic doors and windows profiles, etc. Carry out the action of thickening high-strength plastic film and fully biodegradable plastic film to meet the standards, and improve the supply and guarantee capacity of high-quality agricultural film.
Paper making. Promote the integration of forestry and paper, scientifically use bamboo pulp, bagasse, straw and other non-wood raw materials, and improve the supply capacity of domestic raw materials. Accelerate the breakthrough in manufacturing technology of high-grade insulating paper and special paper-based composite materials, and improve the quality of paper, paperboard and paper products. Develop nursing and health products suitable for infants and the elderly, subdivide application scenarios, strengthen the design and research of paper products and packaging paper, and adapt to the diversified and personalized market demand. Improve the proportion and efficiency of cogeneration, expand the application of biomass energy, organize and implement a number of energy-saving and carbon-reducing technological transformation projects, carry out demonstration applications of energy-saving and carbon-reducing technologies, and improve the level of energy-saving and carbon-reducing in the industry.
Leather. Develop high-end green, fashionable and functional leather materials, and expand their application in automobile, home and other fields. Build a high-end new public service platform for green shoe materials, and accelerate the popularization and application of high-performance sole materials with functions of shock absorption, resilience, light weight and environmental protection. Carry out leather fashion day, design week and other activities, build a brand design database, strengthen the application of foot big data collection, adopt 3D design, virtual simulation design and visual presentation, and develop personalized, fashionable and functional leather and fur products and footwear products. Promote the research and development, popularization and application of chrome-free tanning and solid waste recycling technology, and improve the intelligent level of leather-making and shoe-making equipment technology. Support the promotion of leather marks, develop ecological leather, establish a quality traceability system for leather products, and explore leather culture.
Batteries. Focusing on improving battery energy density and reducing thermal runaway, we will accelerate the research and application of key technologies and materials in the fields of lead-acid batteries, lithium-ion batteries and primary batteries. Vigorously develop high-safety lithium-ion batteries, lead-carbon batteries, sodium ion batteries and other products, and expand their applications in new energy vehicles, energy storage, communications and other fields. Build a platform for industrial supply and demand cooperation, promote the battery industry and downstream industries such as electric bicycles to strengthen the docking of technology, products and services, and promote the development of financing.
Food. Accelerate the cultivation of traditional superior food producing areas and local specialty food industries, guide all localities to base themselves on superior resources, and strengthen the construction of high-quality raw material bases such as grain and oil, livestock and poultry and aquatic products. Guide the traditional superior food producing areas to further exert the agglomeration effect, strengthen the upstream and downstream coordination of the industrial chain, and further expand the characteristic food industrial clusters such as dairy products, meat products and liquor. Dig deep into cultural connotation, promote the integration of intangible cultural heritage and historical and cultural elements into local specialty food brands, and accelerate the inheritance and innovation of traditional production techniques such as baked goods, wine making and condiments. Guide the integration and development of food industry with health care, tourism, popular science, entertainment and other industries, and expand the consumer market of functional food, sports nutritious food and formula food for special medical purposes.
(2) Cultivate and expand new growth points
Articles for the elderly. In-depth implementation of the guiding opinions to promote the development of the elderly products industry, building an innovative platform for the elderly products, publishing the promotion catalogue of the elderly products, vigorously developing functional elderly clothing, intelligent daily auxiliary products, safe and convenient old-age care products, rehabilitation training and health promotion AIDS, products suitable for aging environment improvement, and enriching the varieties of elderly products. Promote the continuous optimization and upgrading of smart terminals according to the requirements of aging, and improve the design, research and development, testing and certification capabilities of aging products. Formulate guidelines for the construction of industrial standard system for elderly products, and speed up the revision of standards for elderly products. Cultivate industrial parks for old people’s products, focus on sub-sectors and cultivate a number of key enterprises with strong R&D capabilities and independent intellectual property rights, and guide manufacturers to design and produce special easy-to-use manuals and video tutorials for the functions of commonly used products for the elderly. Encourage local governments to set up special projects to support the aging transformation of family houses and furniture facilities for the elderly. Strengthen the popularization of knowledge about articles for the aged, and enhance consumers’ brand awareness of quality.
Baby products. Strengthen the development and application of new materials preparation technology and intelligent technology for environmental protection. Vigorously promote educational, model, outdoor and sports baby products. Promote the integration with the cultural industry, hold a creative design competition for toys and baby products, promote the licensing of new national trends, museums, cultural tourism IP and other brands, and enhance brand value and added value of products. Implement quality parenting and product quality and safety projects, and popularize baby products for feeding, traveling, playing and education.
Recreational articles for sports and culture. Accelerate the development of convenient and fast office supplies, green and healthy stationery, and multi-functional intelligent sports and fitness equipment to guide and create consumer demand. Use sports events and other activities to accelerate the promotion of ice and snow and outdoor sports equipment, sports and leisure bicycles and other products. Promote "calligraphy into the classroom", popularize Four Treasures of the Study products, and inherit the excellent national culture. Taking the opportunity of promoting the construction of rural cultural and sports facilities, we will vigorously develop sports equipment, musical instruments and cultural supplies that meet the needs and enrich rural spiritual and cultural life. Formulate industrial policies for the high-quality development of arts and crafts, carry out activities for arts and crafts masters to enter the campus and park, cultivate arts and crafts characteristic areas and master studios, and support the construction of demonstration projects for arts and crafts dual-creation platforms. Organize skills training and seminars in arts and crafts industry in combination with local characteristics to improve the level of employees in the industry.
Biological manufacturing. Accelerate the development of top-level design in bio-manufacturing industry, increase investment in various innovative resources, and enhance product added value and market competitiveness. Accelerate the application of non-grain raw materials, vigorously expand the raw material resources of bulk agricultural and forestry wastes such as straws, improve the low-cost saccharification technology level of non-grain biomass, and promote the sustainable development of bio-manufacturing. Support qualified areas to carry out pilot applications of bio-based materials, non-food raw materials and bio-energy products, and promote the popularization and application of high-quality products. Strengthen the development and innovation of characteristic plant raw materials, promote the large-scale production of biological manufacturing of active raw materials, and increase the application in food, cosmetics and other industries.
Prefabricated food. Implement the action plan to promote the development of food industry prefabrication, conform to the consumption demand of convenient, fast, nutritious and healthy food, and vigorously develop product forms such as convenient food, self-heated food, rice flour products and pre-processed dishes. Actively promote the extension and expansion of the industrial chain, strengthen the interests of agricultural enterprises, share the value-added benefits of the whole industrial chain, and help the coordinated development of the first, second and third industries. Carry out research on key common technologies such as modified atmosphere preservation, improve the automation level of processing equipment and key processes, and encourage traditional food industrial parks to attract supporting enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to gather and develop. Strengthen the preparation and revision of prefabricated food standards, accelerate management innovation and business model innovation, actively cultivate new industries and formats, and expand diversified consumption scenarios.
(C) fully stimulate the potential of domestic demand
Vigorously implement the "three products" strategy. Organize industries and key areas to vigorously carry out the "three products" nationwide series of activities, and create a matrix of new products, famous products and fine products in light industry. Strengthen design empowerment, add a number of national industrial design centers, design parks and design towns in the field of light industry, and accelerate the expansion of industrial design to R&D, manufacturing and sales. Design competitions will be held in the fields of luggage, shoes, home, jewelry, ceramics, toys and baby products, bicycles, plastic products, etc., and original and creative designs will be strengthened. Compile the Guide to Upgrading and Innovating Consumer Goods (Light Industry) and promote more than 300 upgraded and innovative consumer goods. Cultivate a number of regional brands of light industry with distinctive industrial characteristics and strong influence, and strengthen the cultivation of local landmark light industry products. Brand building in household appliances, furniture, lighting appliances, hardware products, leather, cosmetics, watches, glasses, household paper and other industries.
Build a high-quality exhibition platform. Make good use of high-standard platforms such as China International SME Expo and APEC SME Technical Exchange and Exhibition to promote international cooperation, project investment and technical exchange of light industrial SMEs. Organize the exhibition of "three products" achievements of food industry. Support the holding of international exhibitions on household appliances, furniture, hardware products, leather, toys and baby products, plastic products, bicycles, etc., promote new technologies, new products and new materials in the industry, carry out new product launch, first exhibition and first show activities, promote project negotiation, international cooperation and upstream and downstream docking of industrial chain, and stimulate market consumption vitality.
Linkage online and offline to expand consumption scenarios. Carry out various promotional activities such as "Online New Year Festival", "Double-product Online Shopping Festival" and "Food Festival". Vigorously develop new retail formats such as smart home experience hall, smart appliance life museum and healthy lighting experience center, and cultivate more than 50 smart home experience centers. Cultivate exhibitions and expositions of old-age products, hold a conference on the development of old-age products industry, and carry out the activities of "filial piety and love for the old" to meet the multi-level and diversified needs of the elderly.
(D) Actively stabilize the export advantage
Stabilize the traditional export market. Guide household appliances, leather, furniture, hardware products, lighting appliances, toys and other industries to optimize the structure of export products, enhance the position of division of labor in the global industrial chain, actively participate in international exhibitions, increase the export ratio of brand products, and consolidate the traditional export market. Support leading enterprises in household appliances, leather and other industries to "go global", build overseas design and research institutions and marketing channels, and accelerate the establishment of international brands. Organize the toy industry to carry out the certification supplier plan in depth, promote the leather industry to continuously carry out the "international animal welfare (mink/fox/raccoon) demonstration field" certification, and smooth the export trade in the traditional market.
Actively explore emerging markets. Guide the light industry to strengthen market research in the "Belt and Road" and RCEP regions, and guide enterprises to rationally arrange industrial layout investment. Promote the bicycle industry to build international industrial bases, R&D centers and trade centers in Guangxi and Hainan. Support the construction of specialized markets for border trade of light industrial products in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Northeast Asia. Promote all localities to actively use existing capital channels to support small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions and expand orders. Accelerate the transportation of light industrial products through China-Europe trains and support the development of new foreign trade formats such as cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouses.
Strengthen foreign trade public services. Establish and improve the standard system and product certification system in line with international standards, and improve the ability to cope with technical trade measures. We will promote the work of issuing certificates of origin and facilitating customs clearance in free trade agreements, and guide and help light industrial enterprises to enjoy tariff reduction or exemption in partner countries or regions of the agreements. Actively promote international cooperation in inspection and quarantine electronic certificates, and improve the level of trade facilitation. Actively participate in multilateral and bilateral economic and trade negotiations to help China’s advantageous light industrial products export. Organize export policy training for small and medium-sized enterprises in light industry, and guide enterprises to produce products that meet the requirements. Organize the international capacity cooperation alliance of light industry, strengthen communication with government agencies and industry organizations of exporting countries, and provide information consulting services for light industry enterprises to "go global".
(5) Promoting the coordinated development of industrial ecology.
Strengthen the leading role of leading enterprises. Organize the promotion activities of the top 100 enterprises in light industry, top 100 enterprises in science and technology and top 10 enterprises in sub-sectors, set an advanced model of high-quality development and scientific and technological innovation, and lead the transformation and upgrading of the industry. We will focus on key industries and fields such as food, household appliances, paper making, batteries and furniture, and support the development of key enterprises in the industrial chain. Establish a contact service mechanism for key enterprises, and enhance the ability to serve enterprises through the establishment of industrial alliances and enterprise salons.
Cultivate a number of specialized and innovative enterprises. Carry out the activity of "China Tour of Light Industry Belt", and take the lead in launching pilot projects in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian, Shandong and other places to provide online and offline linkage services such as policy interpretation, platform docking and technical exchange for SMEs, so as to improve the development quality of SMEs. Give play to the role of intelligent manufacturing system solution supplier alliance, help small and medium-sized light industrial enterprises to carry out diagnostic consulting services, and accelerate the development of intelligent solutions to reduce costs and increase efficiency, improve quality and expand capacity. Cultivate a group of "little giant" enterprises specializing in light industry and individual champion enterprises in manufacturing industry, and carry out the development of large, medium and small enterprises.
Gradient cultivation of light industrial clusters. Cultivate 50 "three products" demonstration cities of light industry, and support industries such as plastic products, hardware products, lighting appliances, cosmetics, toys, culture, education and sports to cultivate a number of characteristic industrial clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises. Encourage the existing light industry clusters to accelerate development, optimize and upgrade, develop collaborative manufacturing, lean manufacturing and service-oriented manufacturing, and support the construction of a number of new industrialization demonstration bases in the light industry. Vigorously cultivate advanced manufacturing clusters in the field of light industry, and support key industrial clusters such as smart household appliances, pan-household appliances and leather to move towards world-class industrial clusters. Hold a 100 billion-level industrial cluster development conference to exchange and promote the experience of cluster transformation and upgrading.
Promote the orderly transfer of industries in China. Optimize the development environment in the central and western regions, strengthen the infrastructure construction of parks and bases, enhance the professional supporting service capacity, and attract light industry enterprises and major projects to land. Explore the pairing of parks, enterprises and orders between the eastern region, the central and western regions and the northeast region to promote the orderly transfer of manufacturing links. Implement the guiding opinions on promoting the orderly transfer of manufacturing industry and the guiding catalogue of industrial development and transfer, the catalogue of encouraged industries in the western region, the guiding catalogue of industrial structure adjustment, and the catalogue of industries encouraging foreign investment. Encourage willing areas to hold docking activities for manufacturing transfer and development, and promote the landing of transfer projects. Encourage leading enterprises such as leather, furniture and household appliances to invest in the central and western regions to improve the level of industrial technology development in the central and western regions.
(VI) Upgrading the modernization level of industrial chain
Carry out strong chain stabilization actions. Optimize the layout of manufacturing innovation centers in the field of light industry, promote enterprises to actively create technological innovation centers, industrial design centers and key laboratories at all levels, gather innovative service institutions, provide high-quality product research and development, quality control and other services, and improve and upgrade the innovative public service system. In view of the weak links in household appliances, leather, washing products and other industries, we will speed up the development of technological innovation roadmap and industrial chain map, promote technological breakthroughs in key raw materials, parts and equipment, and consolidate the leading position of advantageous industries. Carry out the transformation and upgrading of sports and leisure bicycles, and benchmark the international advanced level to enhance the core competitiveness of the industry. In-depth implementation of the "one-stop" application plan for key products and processes to promote the demonstration and application of innovation achievements in the industrial chain.
Strengthen the transformation of digital empowerment. Promote the digital transformation of key light industry, build a number of intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories and excellent scenes, and cultivate a number of 5G factories. Give play to the role of digital transformation promotion center in consumer goods industry, provide diversified services for digital technology application, standard development and personnel training in light industrial enterprises, support shoe-making, furniture, household appliances and other industries to carry out personalized customization and flexible production, and reshape the new mode of product production. Give full play to the role of industrial internet logo analysis node and promote the traceability construction of quality and safety in key areas. Organize trade associations to hold the China Light Industry Informatization Conference to show the typical achievements of digital transformation.
Promote green and safe development. Formulate the standard conditions of electric bicycle industry, revise the standard conditions of daily glass industry, do a good job in the announcement management of lead battery industry standards, and promote the development of industry standards. Support light industrial enterprises to carry out technological transformation and equipment renewal, and promote green and low-carbon advanced technologies. Cultivate a number of green products, green factories and green supply chain management enterprises in the light industry to accelerate the formation of green competitive advantages in light industry. Guide enterprises to implement the main responsibility of safety production, standardize the conditions of safety production and improve the level of intrinsic safety.
Fourth, safeguard measures
(1) Strengthen policy support. Use existing capital channels to support technological breakthroughs in intelligent manufacturing, green manufacturing and basic fields of light industrial enterprises. Implement relevant policies to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and improve the risk resistance of small and medium-sized enterprises in light industry. Give full play to the role of national industrial integration as a platform, and comprehensively use various financial instruments such as credit, bonds, funds and insurance, and special refinancing and other policy tools to support the innovation and development of light industrial enterprises. We will implement policies and measures to stabilize foreign trade, further increase support for export credit insurance, and optimize exchange rate hedging services.
(2) Strengthen the guidance of standards. We will strengthen the supply of standards that are urgently needed in the market, cross-border integration and quality improvement, speed up the revision of mandatory national standards for key products such as household appliances, baby products, school supplies, sports equipment and electric bicycles, and formulate quality grading standards for household appliances, furniture, toys, paper making, leather and lighting appliances. Every year, 300 standards in the field of light industry are compiled and revised to enhance the ability of standards to lead the development of the industry. Strengthen the management of standard preparation and revision process, and improve the efficiency and quality level of standard preparation and revision.
(3) Strengthen talent support. Support the holding of industrial innovation and entrepreneurship competitions, the recommendation activities of craftsmen in light industrial countries, and increase the training of outstanding industrial talents. Carry out the national industrial design vocational skills competition, carry out the evaluation of light industry vocational ability, and cultivate a group of light industry technical experts. Hold stone carving, ceramics, shoe designer and other vocational skills competitions to strengthen the construction of talent team. To carry out the training of standardization professionals in light industry to improve their ability, and to improve the professional level and professionalism of standardization practitioners.
(4) Strengthen organization and implementation. Establish an exchange mechanism between provincial capitals and businessmen, coordinate and solve development problems in time, and take active measures to stabilize the production efficiency of light industry. Actively use the information platform such as "Digital Industry Information" to strengthen the scheduling analysis of sub-sectors and timely and accurately grasp the latest developments of the industry. Local industrial and information technology authorities should strengthen departmental coordination, increase the protection of industrial development policy elements, pay close attention to the implementation of this work plan, stabilize the development of key industries and key enterprises in the region, and strive to achieve the expected goals. Industry organizations should actively build an industry exchange and exhibition platform, timely study and analyze the impact of changes in international and domestic situations on key industries, regional enterprises, especially small and micro enterprises, help enterprises formulate emergency plans, and enhance their risk early warning and disposal capabilities. Local competent departments of industry and information technology and relevant national trade associations regularly submit the progress in the implementation of steady growth in their respective regions and industries every year.