China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and seven other ministries issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for Enhancing Industrial Basic Capabilities, calling for strengthened R&D on basic products in key industrial chains. The plan coordinat

2026-10-22

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and seven other ministries issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for Enhancing Industrial Basic Capabilities, calling for strengthened R&D on basic products in key industrial chains. The plan coordinates high-quality development actions for manufacturing chains and an industrial-base reconstruction program, prioritizes a set of specialized foundational products tightly coupled with finished systems, and mandates upstream-downstream industry collaboration to drive those projects. It instructs parallel deployment of hardware and software R&D tasks, creation of a standards-conversion list, and accelerated cultivation of core patents.