The following Chinese industrial policy directive aims to speed up the process of getting manufacturing prototypes into commercial production. One of the goals of this directive is to establish five homegrown, world-class pilot testing platforms in China by 2025. It prioritizes the development of more precise metrology technology as one means to this end.
An archived version of the Chinese source text is available online at: https://perma.cc/TXX5-93B7
Implementation Opinions on the Innovative Development of Pilot Testing in the Manufacturing Industry
Pilot testing (“piloting”) is transitional testing for transforming new products in the trial production stage into production processes. It is a key link in the industrialization of scientific and technological (S&T) achievements, an integral part of the manufacturing innovation system, and an important support for modernized industrial systems. Since the 18th Party Congress [in 2012], manufacturing industry piloting has continued to advance, promoting technology iteration, process reform, and product innovation. However, problems such as a deficient piloting service system and weak independent controllability (自主可控能力) are increasingly conspicuous, and the piloting industry’s development has lagged behind in providing hardware, software, and services for the industrialization of S&T achievements, making it difficult to meet the practical requirements of high-quality development. The following opinions are put forward in order to build a modernized piloting capability and support industrial S&T-based innovation and high-quality development.
I. Guiding Ideology
Taking Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, we must fully implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, take the new stage of development (新发展阶段) as our basis, completely, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new concept of development (新发展理念), accelerate construction of the new pattern of development (新发展格局), conform to the fundamental principles of industrial development, take building an advanced piloting capability as the goal, adhere to being demand-oriented and scenario-led, improve the service platform system, develop the piloting industry in an innovative way, optimize the piloting development ecosystem, and promote the synchronized development of the piloting and innovation chain with production chains, thereby providing strong support for promoting the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, accelerating the achievement of new-style industrialization (新型工业化), and constructing a modernized industrial system.
II. Basic Principles
Persist in innovative development. Using innovation drivers to lead piloting development, promote the continuous upgrading of the whole piloting chain, and achieve higher-end technology, more modernized capability, more refined management, and more efficient services, thereby supporting high-quality development and the industrialization of achievements.
Persist in systematic layout. Focusing on combining the big picture with the details (远近结合), differentiated implementation, and software-hardware synergies, build appropriate piloting capacity according to industrial categories, lay out piloting services according to industrial clusters, and promote the deep integration of pilot production line construction and production chains, so as to support the movement of industries towards the middle and the high end.
Persist in supply-demand coordination. Focusing on the actual situations of industries and the piloting requirements of enterprises, push piloting platforms to provide accurate and effective services. Focusing on pilot platform capacity demand, expand the supply of products such as precision measuring instruments, high-end testing equipment, and design simulation software.
Persist in high economic efficiency. Guide the intensive construction and standardized management of piloting capacity, and moderately advance the layout of modernized piloting capacity. Scientifically allocate piloting resources, promote the networkization (网络化) of piloting services, and raise the efficiency of piloting certification, thereby achieving higher quality and enhanced efficiency.
Persist in safety and reliability. Adhering to equal emphasis on technology and management, have safety and assurance permeate throughout the piloting process, and strengthen risk identification, monitoring, and early warning, as well as emergency response and analysis and evaluation, so as to ensure that piloting development is safe, reliable, and independently controllable (自主可控).
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