The machinery industry is a fundamental, strategic, and leading industry that provides technical equipment for the national economy, defense industry, and people's livelihood. It is the "ballast stone" of the industrial economy. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce and other six departments recently jointly issued the "Work Plan for Stable Growth of the Machinery Industry (2025-2026)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), aiming to promote the high-quality development of the machinery industry and provide strong support for the stable operation of the industrial economy. The "Plan" proposes that from 2025 to 2026, the operation of the machinery industry will maintain a stable and positive trend, and the resilience and safety level of key industrial and supply chains will continue to improve. The quality and efficiency of development will reach a new level, and efforts will be made to achieve an average annual growth rate of about 3.5% in operating income, with operating income exceeding 10 trillion yuan. The relevant person in charge of the China Machinery Industry Federation stated that the goal setting of the "Plan" reflects a systematic thinking of balancing scale and quality, emphasizing the coordinated efforts of both supply and demand sides. This goal is based on the long-term positive development trend of China's machinery industry, taking into account various factors such as domestic demand, exports, and investment, and is conducive to stabilizing industry expectations and enhancing industry confidence. ”Liu Xinyan, Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Equipment Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said. To achieve this goal, the entire industry needs to work together. According to Liu Xinyan's analysis, the "Plan" proposes three aspects of safeguard measures, which mainly have the following characteristics: first, it is "practical". The safeguard measures propose to strengthen overall coordination, consolidate responsibilities among various departments, strengthen collaboration and cooperation, and regularly evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of policies; The second is "accuracy". In response to the key links faced in the implementation of the "Plan", it is proposed to support equipment enterprises to carry out the construction of modern manufacturing service platforms, talent cultivation and introduction, implement tax preferential policies for industrial mother machines and other enterprises, and increase financial support for equipment enterprises; Thirdly, it is necessary to strengthen operational monitoring, regularly organize economic operation analysis meetings and special investigations in key areas and industries, establish a risk warning mechanism for the economic operation of the machinery industry, and flexibly respond to problems and difficulties that arise during the implementation of the plan. The Plan also proposes to steadily increase the scale of key segmented industries, accelerate the cultivation of new quality productivity, further enhance enterprise competitiveness, significantly improve the supply capacity of high-quality equipment, and cultivate a number of competitive small and medium-sized enterprise characteristic industrial clusters and internationally competitive industrial clusters. Qiao Biao, Vice President of CCID Research Institute, suggested enhancing the supply capacity of high-quality equipment through technological breakthroughs, industry collaboration, and quality upgrades. Taking national science and technology major projects as the driving force, focusing on key areas such as industrial mother machines and robots, and building a collaborative platform for industry university research and application; Focus on building a batch of pilot testing platforms to solve the conversion problem from the laboratory to the "last mile" of the production line; By implementing industrial infrastructure reconstruction projects and major technological equipment research and development projects, we aim to break through bottlenecks in a number of basic components, electronic parts, and advanced manufacturing processes, and enhance the resilience of the industrial chain. On this basis, we will deepen the implementation of standard upgrading to lead the optimization and upgrading of the machinery industry, as well as excellent quality engineering in the manufacturing industry. By improving the industry standard system and consolidating the quality foundation, we will systematically enhance the reliability, consistency, and stability from basic components to complete equipment. ”Qiao Biao said. The key task for the stable growth of the machinery industry in expanding domestic and international markets is to comprehensively expand effective demand. The "Plan" proposes five tasks from both domestic and international perspectives: deepening the potential of the domestic stock market, cultivating and strengthening new demands, focusing on expanding effective investment, promoting industrial digital transformation and intelligent upgrading, and deepening open cooperation, continuously enhancing the driving force of stable growth in the machinery industry. In terms of expanding the domestic market, Liu Xinyan suggests that the machinery industry should combine new economic and new formats such as debut economy, ice and snow economy, silver economy, and smart tourism to expand the application of elderly care and rehabilitation equipment, ice and snow equipment, cultural and tourism equipment, educational equipment, and additive manufacturing equipment. The comprehensive green transformation of the economy and society has also brought new opportunities for the development of the machinery industry. By developing green industries such as energy conservation and environmental protection, clean production, and clean energy, it further drives the development of green and low-carbon technology and equipment. In terms of expanding effective investment, Liu Xinyan stated that investment funds such as the Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrading Fund, Industrial Machinery Fund, and Small and Medium sized Enterprise Development Fund should be leveraged to guide social capital to increase investment in the manufacturing industry. Mechanical industry enterprises should seize the opportunity of large-scale equipment updates, accelerate the research and development, production, and promotion of green and low-carbon products based on their own product characteristics. ”The relevant person in charge of the China Machinery Industry Federation stated. In recent years, the mechanical equipment industry in Jiangsu Province has seized the development opportunities of emerging industries such as new energy and accelerated its move towards the mid to high end. The new power equipment in Jiangsu Province covers nine major links: power generation, transmission, transformation, distribution, utilization, dispatch, communication, comprehensive energy services, and power network security; The supporting capabilities in the fields of new energy vehicles, power batteries, motor electronic control, intelligent networking, etc. are at the leading level in China; In the high-tech shipbuilding industry, shipbuilding orders cover ultra large oil tankers, container ships, etc., with high-end and diversified structures; The photovoltaic industry chain covers major links such as silicon materials, silicon wafers, cells, and components. Zhao Diyang, Deputy Director of the Equipment Industry Department of the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Jiangsu Province, stated that in the future, the machinery industry in Jiangsu Province will seize the opportunity of the national "two new" policies (large-scale equipment updates and consumer goods trade in), further highlight the deep integration of science and technology industries, focus on key areas such as new power equipment, new energy commercial vehicles, embodied intelligent robots, and low altitude equipment, and build a number of provincial-level manufacturing innovation centers. In recent years, China's machinery industry has maintained stable growth in foreign trade and investment, but the complexity and uncertainty of the international economic and trade environment have increased, presenting both challenges and opportunities. The plan encourages enterprises to actively expand into international markets. Qiao Biao suggests that on the basis of smooth international cooperation mechanisms, we should improve service support and enhance the risk resistance ability of enterprises. Encourage eligible enterprises to engage in high-level cooperation with global leading manufacturers in technology research and development, mutual recognition of standards, supply chain management, etc., to achieve upgrading from product output to capacity cooperation and ecological co construction. Accelerating the intelligent transformation of new technology applications is one of the key focuses of the 'Plan'. According to Liu Xinyan's analysis, currently, the intelligent upgrading of the machinery industry mainly faces challenges such as insufficient supply of intelligent manufacturing equipment and industrial software, deepening of the integration and application of artificial intelligence technology and equipment technology, further expansion of smart service scenarios, and a lack of advanced and applicable intelligent manufacturing system solutions. To this end, the 'Plan' proposes measures such as' enhancing industrial innovation capabilities' and 'focusing on developing intelligent equipment and systems'. The relevant person in charge of the China Machinery Industry Federation suggested that enterprises should actively implement the "smart transformation from digital to networked" transformation project, introduce new generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things, and optimize the entire production and manufacturing process. At the same time, focusing on personalized user needs, enhancing intelligent service functions such as equipment product data interconnection, human-computer interaction, and decision-making assistance. Smart agriculture, smart healthcare, smart transportation... To promote the intelligent development of the machinery industry, we need to take scene expansion as the driving force, explore the application market of high-end products such as industrial mother machines, robots, and intelligent detection equipment, and drive the intelligent upgrading of the manufacturing process with actual demand. ”Qiao Biao said. Taking technological transformation as the starting point, we will promote "equipment core replacement and production line replacement" and renovate old equipment. Especially for the vast number of enterprises, we encourage the implementation of "micro transformation" with small investment and quick results, and pragmatically promote the popularization of automation and digitization; Carry out the intelligent factory gradient cultivation action, build intelligent factories in a graded and classified manner, and cultivate industry benchmarks from the basic level to the leading level gradient cultivation. The intelligent transformation places higher demands on technology and talent. Qiao Biao stated that the autonomous controllability of key technologies and equipment such as high-end sensors and specialized industrial software still needs to be strengthened. At the same time, the talent supply structure cannot fully match the demand for industrial upgrading. Next, we need to strengthen the reserve of cross-border composite talents who master new technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, and deeply promote the integrated development of the machinery industry. (New Society)