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Made in China 2025
Launched by Premier Li Keqiang in 2015, the “Made in China 2025" strategy aims to guide the country’s industrial modernisation, including the substitution of foreign technology with innovation developed on the mainland.
Haier launched its new three-drum washing machine its Leader brand, which targets younger consumers. Photo: Screenshot
Haier

Haier’s three-drum washer handles multiple loads and looks like Mickey Mouse

The design came from consumer demand to separate coats and lingerie, traditionally washed by hand, leading some to call it a product for the lazy.

Aerospace: Industry Trends

China’s latest satellite launch is a milestone for its commercial space sector

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China manufacturing

China will lead the world in smart manufacturing by 2030, report says

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Two Sessions 2025

As ‘anything but China’ fades, can ‘two sessions’ spark optimism amid AI surge?

Capital markets are riding a wave of interest in Chinese tech, but geopolitics and other obstacles to investments could wipe out the rally if opportunities fizzle.

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Two Sessions 2025

‘Two sessions’ 2025: China can look back on 5 years of gains at expense of US

The upcoming political gathering gives the leadership a chance to reflect on how far it has closed the gap in areas such as technology.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

China Future Tech: live Q&A webinars

Dive deep into China’s technological revolution with SCMP’s China Future Tech live webinars. Get expert insights and live Q&As on six transformative sectors driving China’s tech dominance, including EVs, artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, aerospace, robotics and biomedicine.

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Two Sessions 2025

Explainer | ‘Made in China 2025’ is ending. What does that mean for China’s ‘two sessions’?

With the ‘Made in China 2025’ project and the 14th five-year plan coming to fruition, Beijing must craft a strategy for new challenges.

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The focus of this year’s “two sessions” is expected to be on the domestic challenges of restoring confidence and tackling economic pressures, while dealing with the uncertainties of Washington’s shifting policies. Photo: EPA-EFE
Robotics

Made in China 2025: how the country achieved its goals 10 years on

Is China a leader in aeronautics and robotics? What role did the government play in their success? SCMP editors answer questions about Made in China 2025.

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Made in China 2025: All stories

China Future Tech webinar | Beyond 2025: what’s next for China tech?

A review of China’s industrial policies and the implications for the world.

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China manufacturing

How China is betting big on state-led research to drive a tech revolution

Though start-ups like DeepSeek are winning headlines, a key pillar of China’s tech revolution is its massive state-directed research programme.

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A prototype of the CR450 EMU, the world’s fastest commercial train with an operating speed of 400 kilometres per hour, is tested in Beijing. Photo: Xinhua
US-China trade war

US risks ‘losing next industrial revolution’ as China races forward, panel told

A hearing by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission features warnings and advice for Washington as competition with China heats up.

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China launched the “Made in China 2025” plan in 2015 to drive self-reliance and innovation across several key industries. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

China’s ability to launch DeepSeek chatbot draws US panel’s scrutiny

Testimony sounds warning about China’s ability to dominate the ‘potentially world-changing technology’ of artificial general intelligence.

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China economy

Opinion | How China’s fast-transforming economy can avoid painful L-shaped growth

The country has all the tools – and resilience – it needs to adapt to its new geopolitical environment and accelerate the domestic transformation.

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Science

Exclusive | As Beijing’s ‘Made in China 2025’ plan nears finish line, how well has it done?

Almost 10 years after the ‘Made in China 2025’ targets were drawn up, we investigate just how many have been achieved.

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China economy

Opinion | China’s plan for ‘new productive forces’ should make the West sit up

It’s the successor to the grossly underestimated “Made in China 2025” strategy, which spawned China’s dominance in electric cars, green tech and other high-end industries.

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China’s President Xi Jinping applauds at the end of the closing session of the 14th National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 11. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

US Chamber of Commerce cites ‘Made in China 2025’ concerns after Beijing trip

Influential business group, while opposed to economic decoupling, is apprehensive about possible overcapacity in Chinese industries linked to the initiative.

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US-China relations

New US chip factories are rising but billions in federal funds have yet to flow

Makers of advanced semiconductors are awaiting US$52 billion in incentives to help American companies ‘win the race for the 21st century’ against China.

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US-China relations

US lawmakers press intelligence chiefs on Covid origins, threat from TikTok

Ex-CDC chief urges push to show what data intelligence community has, ‘where they got it, who their informants were and what their conclusions were’.

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US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines appears before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats on Wednesday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Olympic mascots made in China leave French with red faces

Choice of cuddly toy proving hard sell after it emerges that just 8 per cent of mascot will be produced in France

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Tesla’s rivals Nio and Xpeng refuse to tap brakes on European expansion

Shanghai-based Nio and Guangzhou-headquartered Xpeng are launching new models, signing more sales agencies and building charging facilities in European markets.

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US-China tech war

Washington – and Arizona – dangle subsidies as US chip-making business returns

Rising in the desert near Phoenix is a US$12 billion semiconductor factory owned by Taiwan’s TSMC, with the company lured by US funding and tax credits.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Elon Musk: ‘simply a fact’ that China leads in renewable energy, EVs

“Few seem to realise that China is leading the world in renewable energy generation and electric vehicles,” he said in a post on China’s Twitter-like Weibo social-media platform on Monday. “Whatever you may think of China, this is simply a fact.”

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In this file photo taken on December 1, 2020 SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses as he arrives for an awards ceremony in Berlin. Musk, a strong clean energy supporter, said in a post on Weibo two months earlier that “sustainable energy generation from sun and wind is making great progress”. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

US drops charges against MIT professor accused of lying about China ties

Department of Justice admits that it cannot prove its case, which was brought as part of its initiative to stop scientists from sharing sensitive technology with China.

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Video | China's robot restaurants

China economy

The View | From China to Germany, why industrial policy is on the agenda

Industrial policy, which fell out of favour with economists by the end of the 20th century, is making a comeback. Developing countries need manufacturing and industrial policies more than ever to close the technology gap with developed nations.

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An employee walks between racks holding doors for all-electric Porsche Taycan luxury automobiles at the Porsche AG factory in Stuttgart, Germany. Photo: Bloomberg
US-China relations

As Harvard professor’s trial begins, new scrutiny of US ‘China Initiative’

Asian-American groups hope the trial and resulting publicity will help put an end to the programme, which was started in 2018 to stem the loss of scientific secrets to China.

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Charles Lieber leaves federal court in Boston on January 30, 2020. Photo: Reuters
China-EU relations

China’s investments in Europe plunge amid pandemic, squeeze on foreign buyers

Chinese and Russian purchases in particular can expect to face review and scrutiny under the EU’s investment screening mechanisms.

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Inside Out & Outside In

Outside In | Who says China is retreating into splendid self-isolation?

China’s trade and FDI numbers continue to rise and its industrial policies aim to strengthen the domestic economy and plug manufacturing vulnerabilities – not decouple from the rest of the world.

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