Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and five other departments: accelerate the development of intelligent manufacturing, intelligent transportation, smart agriculture, smart healthcare and other application scenarios.

Six departments issued the "Steady Growth Work Plan for the Machinery Industry". The plan proposes to promote the digitization and intelligent upgrading of the industry. Implement the overall layout planning of Digital China construction, accelerate the development of smart manufacturing, smart transportation, smart agriculture, smart healthcare and other application scenarios, expand the application demand for industrial mother machines, agricultural machinery equipment, robots, rail transportation equipment, medical equipment, engineering machinery, intelligent testing equipment, etc. Carry out digital transformation and upgrade actions, implement a number of "intelligent transformation, digital transformation, and networked collaboration" projects, promote the renewal of old equipment and the transformation of "dumb" equipment. Implement a special action to empower small and medium-sized enterprises with digitization, support enterprises to implement equipment automation transformation based on their own needs, and carry out digital "micro-transformations" with low input and quick results. Continuously optimize typical scenarios and elements of intelligent manufacturing, carry out gradient cultivation actions for intelligent factories, and construct basic level, advanced level, excellent level, and leading level intelligent factories in stages, support enterprises to accelerate the integration of new generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence, carry out closed-loop optimization of the entire production manufacturing process, product lifecycle, and supply chain, and promote organizational mode and enterprise form innovation.