Opinions of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on Promoting the Deep Integration of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation
中共中央办公厅 国务院办公厅关于推动科技创新和产业创新深度融合的意见
Release date: 2026-10-22 Source: Chinese Government Website Font size: [Large] [Medium] [Small] Adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party and of all the plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, earnestly implement the deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session, thoroughly…
Technology & know-howEU industry & firmsAdverseMaterialStructural shift
The mechanism
The CPC and State Council general offices direct research resources towards enterprises and tie innovation programmes to industrial chains, naming technological self-reliance as the end. For European machinery, specialty-chemicals and component suppliers, the likely effect is faster substitution of imported technology by domestic firms that gain access to state research capacity. The excerpt stops before the numbered clauses, so sizing that effect assumes those clauses carry funding, procurement or first-use preferences.
The stakes
If the numbered measures turn into procurement and pilot-application preferences, Chinese demand for imported technology contracts in the segments where European suppliers still earn their margin. Should the clauses remain coordination principles, the document adds little to existing innovation-strategy texts.
How it reaches Europe
- Central Opinions on S&T-industry integrationJoint CPC and State Council issuance binds ministries and provinces to draft implementing measures.
- Research steered to enterprise needsThe text tells ministries to deploy the innovation chain around the industrial chain and gather resources in firms.
- Domestic firms close capability gapsState research capacity reduces the cost of developing substitutes for imported equipment and components.
- Import substitution in industrial technologyThis assumes self-reliance goals translate into buyer preferences, which the truncated excerpt does not show.
- European suppliers lose Chinese ordersMachinery and component exporters face local rivals with state-backed research in their largest overseas market.