In February 2026, exciting news came from many industries in our country. A series of innovative achievements demonstrated our country’s strong strength in science and technology and industrial development.
In the machinery industry, as of the end of 2025, my country’s machinery industry has more than 500 individual champion companies in the manufacturing industry, and more than 500 “little giant” companies specializing in new technologies.
There are 5,000 small and medium-sized enterprises, and more than 40,000 specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises, with the number of the three types of enterprises accounting for more than 30% of the national total.
This shows that during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the machinery industry continued to strengthen the construction of the innovation system, basically formed an industry innovation network covering key areas, and the industry’s independent innovation capabilities were significantly enhanced.
In terms of R&D investment, the total R&D funding for the five major categories of national economic industries mainly involved will reach 763.56 billion yuan in 2024, an increase of 47.7% compared with 2020, and the R&D investment intensity is 2.42%, which is higher than the national industrial and manufacturing average level.
There are also major breakthroughs in emerging technology fields.
The State Administration for Market Regulation (State Standards Administration) recently approved the release of a number of important national standards, covering many aspects.
In the field of emerging technologies, 5 national standards including brain-computer interface and digital twins were released to provide support for the high-quality development of cutting-edge technologies; 47 new material standards and 15 national standards for experimental animals were released to support the innovative development of new materials industry and biotechnology research.
In the field of transportation and logistics, 2 national standards for intelligent connected vehicles and related supporting standards were released to comprehensively improve road traffic safety and intelligence. It also released mandatory national standards for safe production operations in the postal industry and green logistics standards to promote the standardization of the entire express delivery process and the green transformation of the supply chain.
The low-altitude economic field has also achieved remarkable results.
“China’s Urban Low-altitude Economy High-Quality Development Index (2026)” was officially released in Wuhan. This report systematically evaluates the development level of my country’s low-altitude economy.
Shenzhen, Beijing, and Shanghai continue to lead the country, and Wuhan ranks among the first-tier low-altitude economic center cities.
As an emerging economic form, low-altitude economy covers multiple application scenarios such as drone logistics, urban air transportation, and emergency rescue. It is becoming an important engine for promoting urban transformation and upgrading and cultivating new productivity.
In the field of artificial intelligence, Zhejiang Province has proposed that the operating income of the core artificial intelligence industry above designated size will reach 1.2 trillion yuan by 2030.
The “Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of Zhejiang Province” focuses on building nationally leading core industrial clusters such as embodied intelligence and intelligent driving, promoting innovation in smart products and smart terminals, and building a coordinated development pattern for the entire industry chain.
In the field of intelligent driving, the world’s first “Trinity” intelligent driving laboratory was completed and put into operation in Chongqing. The laboratory integrates the three elements of “complete vehicle – dynamic traffic – simulated climate” and can simulate real extreme traffic environments and achieve all-weather large-scale intelligent vehicle testing.
In addition, Force Lingji released the world’s first embodied native large model DM0. This model has core features such as multi-source data pre-training, multi-task cross-model pre-training and spatial reasoning thinking chain. Its 2.4B parameter version has been fully open source.
These achievements not only demonstrate our country’s innovation capabilities and development potential in various fields, but also inject new impetus into the high-quality development of our economy.
In the future, our country is expected to make breakthroughs in more fields and make greater contributions to global science and technology and industrial development.
