Decoding China’s Technology and Industrial Policy: Seven Terms You Need to Know

Photo: Rawpixel The term “core technologies” first achieved prominence in the 2006 Medium- and Long-Term Plan for Science and Technology, where it was The most complete and concrete list of bottleneck used to refer to a few fundamental technologies technologies was published in 2018 by S&T Daily— that China had not mastered, and which could not the official newspaper of MOST—delineating a be purch. [...] MOST was charged subset of bottleneck technologies (see Table 1).5 with drawing up a list of key technologies and Bai Chunli, the head of CAS, revealed in 2020 products at that time.3 Since the 2018 outbreak the existence of an internal list of bottleneck of the U. [...] This reflects a broader national S&T strategy by a plenum of the Communist innovation agenda—mirroring the expansion of Party Central Committee, making it the most key core technologies—so that it encompasses authoritative type of policy in China.10 The “whole- both a handful of extremely high-priority projects of-nation” concept refers to a high-priority, top-down and a range of medium-priority i. [...] Reform Commission (NDRC) leads discussions on the modernized industrial system, which The modernized industrial system is thus tend to be abstract and unrealistic, while the extremely broad and ambitious, but somewhat Ministry of Industry and Information Technology lacking in specific instruments to realize (MIIT) takes the lead on discussions about new the vision. [...] These initiatives have key core technologies define China’s steered Chinese policy in the direction of major tasks, while the four components of security, self-sufficiency, and the promotion the NSSTF are mobilized through direct of “hard” technologies, including those government orders and indirect supporting related to the military.