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This exercise contains two components.
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2. article—intelligent manufacturing clusters
Please read both documents carefully and correct the article ‘intelligent
manufacturing clusters’ using a clear and presentable method based on
the guidance shown on cp.first aid.
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intelligent manufacturing clusters
signal
MIIT’s 23 July plan to build 100 technologicaly-advanced SME clusters around
well set-up firms encourages SMEs as innovators and manufacturing hubs in their
own right. The plan marks MIIT’s debut as driver of macro-policy, but reveals its
limitations. Securing funds—SMEs’ biggest constraint—lies beyond MIIT’s remit
or political clout.
intent
● improve top-down coordination to ensure subsidies impel coordination
between industries, rather than just encourage them to co-locate.
● align with ‘Made in China 2025′ and ‘Internet Plus’ plan to propel shift from
low-end manufacturing to innovating high-end IT knowledge economy
● promote “going global” via training, research and technology, and
personnel exchanges with international counterparts
● support SME innovation, transferable to the state-owned secter
● set national and local standards from local platforms: strengthen standards
to international levels in tech, quality, energy saving, environmental
protection, health/sanitation
● Encourage R&D, IP exchange between research institutes and industry
● embrace technology at every juncture of the supply chain: fibre optics and
mobile network infrastructure, cloud computing and big data, real-time
diagnostics
● focus infrastructure upgrades on energy- and water-saving technologies,
and waste recycling; third-party audits to identify energy waste areas
● form IP allianses and industrial associations that will share resources and
IP protection costs
● encourage training and professional development in new technologies
● create a national registry, enhance trademark protection and improve
reputation and risk managment to build national and regional brands
context
26th apr 2012: State Council unveils multi-pronged approach to spur SME growth,
including tax cuts, fiscal transfers, and a 15 bn yuan national fund for start-ups
and SMEs
8 apr 2014: MoF, SAT renew preferential taxes to 2016 for SMEs
23 sep 2014: Caixin reports the C¥15 bn development fund has not materialized,
and much of the 2003 SME Promotion Law was not implemented
24 sep 2014: State Council approves another raft of SME tax breaks. SMEs still
face disproportionate tax burden.
23 mar 2015: State Council Opinions seek to reduce costs of IP litigation,
increase research personnel mobility, break monopolies and local protectionist
policies and provide financial support for innovative industries
19 may 2015: Made in China 2025 lays out goals for upgrading manufacturing,
mimicking Germany’s ‘Industrie 4.0’ and US ‘Industrial Internet’ policies
16th June 2015: ‘Opinions on mass innovation’ reiterates earlier tactics to
increase entrepreneurship
26 jun 2015: State Council releases timeline for implementing innovation and
employment policies
4 jul 2015: Internet Plus policy pushes use of internet in production processes, not
just as a platform for consumption
outlook–weak
● top-down coordination likely to encourage companies to relocate to take
advantage of subsidies but intended coordination and
cooperation/economies of scale unlikely to happen
● SOE reform needs solutions before a programme like this one is likely to
have impact
● poor access to funds, barely addressed in plan, means SMEs will struggle
to participate competitively
● expect IT infrastructure roll-out will advance further growth of mobile
internet, application of big data for credit rating and precision marketing,
hardware/software localization and information security
● pooling IP protection and litigation costs within clusters could enhance
enforcement since high IP enforcement costs borne by the plaintiff can
deter legal action
● few actual measures to encourage public service capacity, R&D
coordination, brand development
● coordination will be difficult without consistent standards of progress, yet
metrics must also be industry and locality specific to be effective
● take up of new technology hinges on personnel training, to be borne in part
by industrial associations, but largely dependent on the roll out of Ministry
of Education’s vocational training initiative
roundtable
MIIT issues Guiding opinions to push industrial cluster
development for the first time
Zheng Xin 郑昕 | People’s Daily Online
Current clusters are too few in number, poorly coordinated, low-tech and show
little innovation. Industry clusters plan focuses on creating an attractive business
environment by coordinating upstream and downstream activity, rather than
picking individual champions. MIIT’s guidelines are a step toward realizing higher
goals set out by the State Council: “Made in China 2025”, ‘Mass Innovation and
Entrepreneurship’, and ‘Internet Plus’. SMEs are still somewhat off the radar in
terms of China’s statistics gathering and economic monitoring. Better integrating
them requires more rigoras data gathering and analysis. Clear industry-specific
standards developed for local conditions are necessary for the Government to
guide clusters, and robust training resources will help workers stay abreast of
technology upgrades.
unleashing clusters industrial advantages, upgrading SMEs
Wang Yuanzhi ⺩远枝 | China Industry News
Despite policy support, SMEs face an uphill challenge in the economic slowdown.
Without ‘intelligent clusters’, broader structural transition will be hard to affect.
Currently, industrial clusters are in a very rudimentary phase. Companies tend to
locate in clusters to take advantage of policy benefits, without collaberating or
innovating. Backbone Enterprises have not taken a leadership role. The
government must oversee integration, and companies should focus on
engendering corporate culture and improving manufacturing effeciency with
technology.
20 articles on industrial clusters release, next step in Made
in China 2025
ye tan 叶檀 | China National Radio
Clusters bestow multiple agglomeration benefits: lower operating costs, scale
economies in infrastructure construction, and potential windfall dividends from
spontaneous collaboration between innovation-oriented enterprises, especially
those tapped in the Internet Plus plan. The state must not go down the same road
it has in the past however, where guidelines are not developed in accordance with
market principles. Backbone enterprises like Changchun Auto and Shenyang
Machinery have remained stunted because of poor coordination with smaller
enterprises.
in the spotlight
Zheng Xin 郑昕 | MIIT Small and Medium Enterprise Department
Working in MIIT’s SME department since its 2008 creation, Zheng consistently
draws attention to the fact that SMEs account for the majority of China’s
production, innovation and employment; but do not have easy access to the
financial system. The ‘new third board’, the over-the-counter market promoted by
Li Keqiang 李克强 as an alternative finance vehicle for innovative SMEs, must be
complemented by banking reforms that provide SMEs access to credit. The
cluster plan’s success hinges on training personnel to keep up with new
technology and enlisting Local Government to develop effective evaluation
criteria, especially where national standards are to broad.
Wang Yuanzhi ⺩远枝 | All-China Private Enterprises Federation
Long-time head of NDRC’s small and micro enterprise department, and industrial
planning and innovation expert. Believing SMEs should drive innovation policy, he
has been frustrated by 2014 fiscal policies that led to SMEs y-o-y slow growth and
a 10% rise in operating costs. He is cautiously optimistic about MIIT’s current
cluster plan. The state needs to facilitate coordinating the science and technology
industry with SMEs in order to commercialize research.
MIIT ⼯信部
Formed in 2008 from several industrial policy organs, including NDRC Industrial
and Information Technology Department and the National Defence Science and
Technology Committee as part of the 2002 ‘New Approach to Industrialisation’,
MIIT was supposed to better cordinate industrial adjustment. In reality, it has been
politicaly marginalised by NDRC, which uses its own levers to advance industrial
policy goals such as ordering restructuring of the telecom industry in 2011 via the
Anti-monopoly Law. Nonetheless, MIIT has exerted considerable technocratic
expertise, enacting ambitious plans to solve overcapacity in rare earth and PV
industries that essentially involve cleaning up after other failed industrial policies.
MIIT can take credit for the industry cluster plan, and will also help to implement
‘Made in China 2025′ and the ‘Internet Plus’ plan, but its capacity for
implementation is limited by systemic issues that require reforms well beyond the
purview of MIIT and industry policy. SME development depends foremost on
funding which awaits financial reforms, and the industry cluster plan also relates
to initiatives across policy portfolios, including Li Keqiang’s push for innovation
and MEP green infrastructure goals.
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