On March 5, 2025, Premier Li Qiang of The State Council stressed in the government work report that "strengthen the national strategic scientific and technological strength", on the occasion of the key point of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the "15th Five-Year Plan" plan to connect, clearly deploy major scientific and technological research and original breakthroughs, create important opportunities for the scientific instrument industry, and the industry formally entered the strategic opportunity window.

Government work tasks for 2025

1. Vigorously boost consumption, improve investment efficiency, and expand domestic demand on all fronts

We will implement special actions to boost consumption: We will arrange super-long-term special government bonds and 300 billion yuan to support the exchange of old consumer goods for new ones. Actively expand effective investment: make good use of ultra-long-term special government bonds, strengthen ultra-long-term loans and other supporting financing, strengthen top-down organization and coordination, and make greater efforts to support the "dual" construction.

2. Develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system

Fostering and strengthening emerging industries and industries of the future: Large-scale demonstration actions for the application of new technologies, new products and new scenarios will be carried out to promote the safe and healthy development of emerging industries such as commercial aerospace and low-altitude economy. Establish a future industrial investment growth mechanism, and cultivate future industries such as bio-manufacturing, quantum technology, embodied intelligence, and 6G.

Promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries: accelerating the high-quality development of key industrial chains in the manufacturing industry, strengthening the reconstruction of industrial foundations and tackling key technologies and equipment. Further expand the scope, lower the threshold, and carry out major technological upgrading and large-scale equipment upgrading projects in the manufacturing industry. Accelerate the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, cultivate a group of service providers who understand both the industry and digital, and increase support for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Stimulate the innovation vitality of the digital economy: continue to promote the "artificial intelligence +" action, better combine digital technology with manufacturing advantages and market advantages, support the wide application of large models, and vigorously develop a new generation of intelligent terminals such as intelligent Internet-connected new energy vehicles, artificial smart phones and computers, and intelligent robots, as well as intelligent manufacturing equipment. Expand the large-scale application of 5G, accelerate the innovation and development of the industrial Internet, optimize the distribution of computing resources across the country, and build digital industrial clusters with international competitiveness.

3. Thoroughly implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, and improve the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system

Promote self-reliance in high-level science and technology: Give full play to the advantages of a new nationwide system, strengthen research on key core technologies and research and development of cutting-edge and disruptive technologies, and accelerate the organization and implementation of major science and technology projects. We will optimize the distribution of national strategic scientific and technological forces, promote the reform of scientific research institutes, explore new research organization models for national laboratories, and strengthen the radiating and driving capacity of international and regional scientific and technological innovation centers. We will encourage science and technology spending to favor basic research, improve the input mechanism that combines competitive support with stable support, and make basic research more organized. We will give full play to the leading role of leading scientific and technological enterprises, strengthen the deep integration of enterprise-led production, university and research, and institutionally ensure that enterprises participate in national scientific and technological innovation decisions and undertake major scientific and technological projects. We will improve the mechanism for allocating, managing and using central government funds for science and technology. We will improve policies and market services to support the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, advance reforms to empower job-related scientific and technological achievements and to manage assets separately, and make the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements more effective. We will strengthen the protection and application of intellectual property rights. Expand open cooperation in science and technology.

4. Accelerate the implementation of landmark reform measures and give better play to the leading role of economic restructuring

Effectively stimulate the vitality of various business entities: earnestly implement policies and measures to promote the development of the private economy, effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of private enterprises and private entrepreneurs in accordance with the law, and encourage qualified private enterprises to establish and improve a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics.

Deepen the construction of a large unified national market: accelerate the establishment of sound basic institutions and rules, eliminate local protection and market segmentation, open up market access and exit, factor allocation and other constraints on the economic cycle, and comprehensively improve "internal" competition.

5. Open wider to the outside world at a high level and actively stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment

Stabilize the development of foreign trade: strengthen the efforts to stabilize foreign trade policies and support enterprises to stabilize orders and expand the market. We will promote the construction and cooperation of smart customs and improve the level of customs clearance facilitation.

Vigorously encourage foreign investment: Encourage foreign investors to expand reinvestment, support participation in the industrial chain upstream and downstream supporting cooperation. The national treatment of foreign-funded enterprises in factors acquisition, qualification licensing, standard-setting, and government procurement will be effectively guaranteed. We will strengthen the service guarantee for foreign-funded enterprises, accelerate the landing of landmark projects, and continue to build the brand of "Invest in China".