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The 4th China Industrial High-Quality Development Forum was held by the China Federation of Industrial Economics in Shenyang, Liaoning, focusing on smart digital transformation and industrial upgrading.
China News Service, Shenyang, September 8 (Reporter Li Hu) The China Federation of Industrial Economics (hereinafter referred to as the "China Federation of Industry and Economics") held the 4th China Industrial High-Quality Development Forum in Shenyang, Liaoning Province on the 8th.
On September 8, the 4th China Industrial High-Quality Development Forum was held in Shenyang. Photo provided by the organizer
With the theme of "intelligent digital transformation, industrial upgrading, and industrial quality improvement", the forum aims to bring together outstanding high-end, intelligent, green and international enterprises and advanced technologies in my country's industrial field, deepen exchanges and cooperation among people from all walks of life in the industrial field, and contribute to the high-quality development of my country's industry.
Wang Xinwei, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee and Governor of Liaoning Province, and Pang Xiaogang, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, delivered opening speeches. In the keynote speech session, Zhou Ji, director of the National Strategic Advisory Committee for the Construction of a Manufacturing Power and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, analyzed and elaborated on the main paths to promote comprehensive innovation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry and the strategic priorities for the next ten years with the theme of "Accelerating the Construction of a Manufacturing Power with New Generation Intelligent Manufacturing as the Main Direction." Li Yizhong, former minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, put forward several major directions in the industrial economy that require urgent attention in his speech "Strong Confidence, Face Difficulties and Promote the Industrial Economy to a New and Better Way", and pointed out that enterprises should focus on the national strategic deployment to adhere to intelligence, greenness, and integration, and implement it at all levels of the industrial economy, coordinate the relationship between development and safety, and build a strong barrier to safe production. Xiong Meng, Secretary of the Party Committee, Vice President and Secretary-General of China Federation of Industry and Economics, presided over the forum.
During the results release session, Liu Chenglin, leader of the China Industrial Data Governance Project Team, released the results of the 2026 China Industrial Data Governance “Front Runner” companies.
Zhou Zhou, chief engineer of China General Technology (Group) Holdings Co., Ltd., party secretary and chairman of General Technology Group Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Dai Jishuang, party secretary, chairman and CEO of Shengu Group Co., Ltd., and Xu Xiaochun, executive vice president of Nanjing Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., delivered keynote speeches at the forum and shared with the guests valuable practices in digital transformation of enterprises and high-quality industrial development.
The forum brings together outstanding representatives from relevant ministries, local governments and industries to summarize outstanding achievements in high-quality industrial development, share practical industry experience, and help industrial transformation and quality improvement. The successful holding of the China Industrial High-Quality Development Forum has brought new ideas to my country's industrial modernization construction and injected new vitality into the economic transformation and upgrading of the Northeast region. The forum has become a high-level communication platform for my country's industrial sector to actively implement the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments on high-quality development.

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