The year 2026 marks the beginning of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Starting today, January 13th, the "News Broadcast" will launch a series of reports titled "Authoritative Interviews: Starting the 15th Five-Year Plan", focusing on the specific measures taken by various departments to promote high-quality economic development and implement key tasks. First up is an exclusive interview with Li Lecheng, the Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. 

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will take the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation as the path to enhance the security and controllability of the industrial chain and supply chain, and maintain a reasonable proportion of the manufacturing industry. Li Lesheng said that it is necessary to further promote major technological transformation and upgrading projects, build emerging pillar industries such as integrated circuits, new materials, and aerospace, and promote biomanufacturing, embodied intelligence, and 6G to become new growth points. 

Li Lecheng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: We will carry out the revitalization action for traditional industries, focusing on sectors such as metallurgy, chemical engineering, light industry, textile, machinery, and shipbuilding. We will formulate plans for transformation and upgrading on an industry-by-industry basis, implement the "AI +" initiative, vigorously develop intelligent and green manufacturing, and explore the establishment of a number of zero-carbon factories and zero-carbon parks, enabling our traditional industries to "blossom anew". 

Li Lecheng said that the industrial added value of key industries and regions accounts for 80% of the total industrial output, which is the basic foundation of the industrial economy. 

Li Lecheng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: To stabilize the growth of key industries and regions, we will fully leverage the role of key industries, which are large in scale, have long industrial chains, and have strong driving forces. We will also implement the new round of ten key industry growth stabilization plans in depth. 

The "14th Five-Year Plan" proposal emphasizes promoting the digital and intelligent transformation of manufacturing. Currently, China has built over 7,000 advanced and over 500 outstanding intelligent factories. Industrial Internet applications have covered all 41 major industrial categories, and there are over 8,000 5G factories nationwide. The number of devices connected to key industrial Internet platforms exceeds 100 million. Li Lesheng stated that by 2025, the core industry scale of China's industrial Internet is expected to exceed 1.6 trillion yuan, driving an increase of about 2.5 trillion yuan in industrial added value. The average operating costs of the top 100 5G factories with global leading levels are expected to decrease by 19%. 

Li Lecheng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: We will launch the industrial data foundation-building initiative, focusing on key manufacturing industries and emphasizing the collection, aggregation and utilization of data. We will build a number of high-quality industry data sets and foster the growth of business entities specializing in data consultation and data annotation. On the other hand, we will accelerate the digital transformation of manufacturing, encouraging all large-scale enterprises to embrace digitalization and fully integrate into the digital process, thereby speeding up equipment renewal, process upgrading and quality improvement. 

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