The high-end equipment manufacturing industry is a strategic emerging industry, which is led by high and new technology, is at the high-end of the value chain and the core link of the industrial chain, and determines the comprehensive competitiveness of the entire industrial chain. It is the backbone of the modern industrial system and the engine to promote industrial transformation and upgrading.

Vigorously cultivating and developing high-end equipment manufacturing industry is an inevitable requirement to enhance the core competitiveness of China's industry, and a strategic choice to seize the commanding heights of future economic and scientific and technological development, which has important strategic significance for accelerating the transformation of economic development mode and realizing the transformation from a manufacturing country to a powerful country.

This series mainly introduces the development status of China's high-end equipment manufacturing industry, the opportunities and challenges faced in international competition, analyzes the reasons behind the possibility of national industrial policies and routes, and summarizes the practical experience of China's independent innovation and industrial upgrading.

This article is mainly to briefly introduce what high-end equipment manufacturing is, what has been developed in general, what guidance and support has been given by the state in terms of current policies, what challenges are faced, and how to deal with the next step.

What is high-end equipment manufacturing?

Where is "high-end"?

High-end equipment manufacturing is the high-end field of manufacturing, mainly for aviation, aerospace, ship, rail, automotive, electric power and other important production areas to provide products and services support.

For example, the mass manufacturing and process development of aerospace equipment groups, complete production lines of rail transit, modules and components of the automotive industry, etc., all require high-end equipment manufacturing to provide industrial mother-machines.

High-end equipment manufacturing industry refers to the high-end field of equipment manufacturing industry, the so-called "high-end" is mainly reflected in three aspects: first, high technical content, manifested as knowledge and technology intensive, reflecting the integration of multidisciplinary and multi-field advanced technology;

Third, it occupies the core part of the industrial chain, and its development level determines the overall competitiveness of the industrial chain.

From the perspective of the development of high-end equipment manufacturing industry, rapid technological change is an important feature of it.

From the invention of the world's first CNC milling machine with language programming in the 1950s, to the later computer integration innovation and mechanical automation innovation, and then to the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change since entering the 21st century, every major breakthrough in science and technology has injected strong impetus into the development of high-end equipment manufacturing industry.