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CBBC Chengdu is delighted to invite you to our Accelerating “Made in China 2025” UK-China Manufacturing Conference & Launch of CBBC “Made in China 2025” Report. This is the first time that “Made in China 2025” is coming to Chengdu—the Land of Abundance.

Made in China 2025
“Made in China 2025” is the Chinese version of “Industry 4.0”, which was approved by Premier Li Keqiang and was announced by the State Council on May 8, 2015. The plan proposes the Three-step Strategy of building a strong country in three decades, which serves as the platform of action for the first ten years. “Strategic Planning of 2025 Made in China” includes ten major industries, including a new generation of information technology industry, high-end CNC machine tools and robots, Marine engineering equipment and ships, rail transportation equipment, and advanced high technology, advanced rail transportation equipment, energy saving and new energy vehicles, electric power equipment, agricultural machinery and equipment, new materials, biological medicine and high performance medical devices.

Made in Sichuan 2025
To actively implement the “Made in China 2025” strategic deployment, the government of Sichuan Province issued a “Made in China 2025 Sichuan Action Plan on the 23th of October in 2015, explicitly stressing the establishment of a “schedule” and a “road map” for the prosperity of Sichuan. “Action Plan” puts forward that by 2020, Sichuan Province will further enhance the manufacturing competitiveness with a steady rise of manufacturing industry on the national level, thus building a manufacturing highland in mid-western China. Furthermore, by 2025, the social status of the manufacturing industry in Sichuan Province will be further strengthened, exalted to a national manufacturing powerhouse.

On the basis of a fully docking of ten high-end sectors highly valued by our country, Sichuan Province is determined to make breakthroughs in some key areas as followed: information technology industry of new generation, aerospace and combustion engine industry, efficient power generation and nuclear technology application industry, high-end CNC machine tools and robots, rail transportation equipment, energy-saving and environmental protection equipment, new energy vehicles, new materials, biological medicine, high-end medical equipment, agricultural machinery and equipment, oil and gas drilling, Marine engineering equipment, and so forth, with thoroughly considering the development foundation and the need of dominant industry, emerging strategic industry and five high-end growing industries in Sichuan Province.

CBBC Made in China 2025 Report
The China-Britain Business Council’s new report, ‘Made in China 2025’, compiled with the support of UK Department for International Trade, was formally launched in May 2016. The report introduces the background to China’s state-level ‘Made in China 2025’ initiative, describing the status quo and predicted future trends in the 10 priority sectors and the supporting policies adopted by regional governments, as well as our analysis of the opportunities and challenges British companies will encounter as this long-term development plan unfolds.

The report also analyses the UK’s strengths in the 10 corresponding sectors – including technological capabilities, research capacity and the major British players each field – as well as the UK catapult centre model.

The prime objective of the report is to help the two sides understand each other better, helping British companies understand what China needs in order to move up the value chain and achieve the goals of the MIC 2025 plan, while also demonstrating to Chinese companies the UK’s technological and research prowess and its experience in developing smart manufacturing. The report will be made available to download on CBBC’s website www.cbbc.org

Draft Programme
Part One: Opening Speech
Executive Director, China Britain Business Council(TBC)
Stephen Agnew | Deputy Consul-General

Part Two: UK & Sichuan Government Speech on Manufacturing
Sichuan Provincial Economic and Information Commission
Subject: Sichuan Manufacturing Industry

David Bull, Deputy Director of China Advanced Manufacturing & Transport, UK Department for International Trade (TBC)
Subject: The development of UK Manufacturing

Part Three: Launch of CBBC’s “Made in China 2025” Report
Director, Advanced Engineering and Transport Sector, China Business Advisor, China-Britain Business Council(TBC)
Sichuan China-Manufacturing Industrial Design Institute

Part Four: Speech by Chinese & UK Companies
UK companies and Sichuan companies

Tea Break 

Part Five: One-to-One Business Matchmaking

Free discussion. End of program

Registration
If you are interested in this event or want to network with companies around Chengdu, please contact Wendy Wei at wendy.wei@cbbc.org.cn; or  Mark Xu at mark.xu@cbbc.org.cn

Note
Please note that every detail above including the date is to be confirmed.
From May through June, the British Consulate-General, Chongqing, will hold a British Festival with a diverse range of commercial and cultural events in Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.

Co-organisers
British Consulate-General Chongqing
Sichuan China-Manufacturing Industrial Design Institute