Leading team to promote 'smarter' manufacturing

The central government has set up a leading team to promote the upgrading of China's manufacturing industry, so it can become a global manufacturing power by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Comments:

The team will coordinate actions for major projects and strategies, and strengthen communication and supervision. Before the establishment of the team, there was a lack of coordination among the various government departments. The upgrading of its manufacturing industry is key to China's future development, and it needs such a powerful and senior organization to coordinate the efforts to achieve this.

Cao Heping, professor of economics at Peking University, June 25