China has publicly advocated for increased adoption of high-tech and innovative technologies across the country. The Made in China 2025 industrial policy is just a part of a concerted effort by Chinese policymakers to take the nation from just being the world’s workshop to being its cleanroom and lab. China wishes to lead in high-volume and high-quality manufacturing. From being a country where things are assembled, it wants to be a country where they are invented and developed. So, not Designed in California and Made in China, but Designed in China and Made in China.
As discussed in the previous article, we can typically see that China is growing in technological prowess and capability stage-by-stage for different markets and technologies. To sum up these stages, we can conclude that, on the whole:
- Long term strategic goals are made.
- These are included in five-year plans
- Plans are localized.
- Clusters are activated.
- Research and commercialization are stimulated.
- Funding is brought in.
- Foreign expertise is sought.
- China’s national competence is developed.
- Products and companies are internationalized.
- And the resulting prowess is then used to rinse and repeat the process for new adjacent technology.



Zhao Tong, Managing Director of Arburg China (second from right), and Huan Yin, Business Development Director (fourth from right), officially opened the Arburg Prototyping Center in Shanghai in March 2021. The location now has four Freeformers for AM. Image courtesy of Arburg.

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