On Aug 21, the General Office of the People's Government of Henan Province issued the Notice on the Action Plan for Cultivating and Expanding Strategic Emerging Industries and Forward-looking Layout of Future Industries in Henan Province.
The document outlined the acceleration of forward-looking layout for future industries. Focusing on key directions such as future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future energy, future space, and future health, it prioritized tracks with strong national will, extensive penetration fields, and lock-in effects. The plan proposed forward-looking layouts for industries including artificial intelligence, hydrogen energy and new-type energy storage, biomanufacturing, quantum technology, next-generation information networks, and advanced materials. It also actively deployed industries in cutting-edge fields like advanced nuclear energy, brain-like intelligence, and aerospace information.
Hydrogen Energy and New-Type Energy Storage. The plan emphasized accelerating R&D of key technologies and core components for renewable energy-based hydrogen production, storage, transportation, and application, while exploring comprehensive hydrogen energy application demonstrations. It strengthened R&D of solid-state batteries, sodium-ion batteries, flow batteries, and metal-air batteries, promoting full-scenario application of new-type energy storage.
The policies are as follows:
Notice of the General Office of the People's Government of Henan Province on Issuing the Action Plan for Cultivating and Expanding Strategic Emerging Industries and Forward-looking Layout of Future Industries in Henan Province
Yuzhengban [2025] No. 38
To the People's Governments of All Provincial-Level Cities, the Management Committees of Jiyuan Demonstration Zone and Aviation Port Area, and All Departments of the Provincial Government:
The Action Plan for Cultivating and Expanding Strategic Emerging Industries and Forward-looking Layout of Future Industries in Henan Province has been approved by the provincial government and is hereby issued to you for earnest implementation.
General Office of the People's Government of Henan Province
Aug 12, 2025
Action Plan for Cultivating and Expanding Strategic Emerging Industries and Forward-looking Layout of Future Industries in Henan Province
To thoroughly implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping during his field trip to Henan, carry out the arrangements of the 9th Plenary Session of the 11th Provincial Party Committee, cultivate and expand strategic emerging industries, make forward-looking layouts for future industries, achieve new progress in building a modern industrial system in our province, accelerate the construction of a strong manufacturing province, this Action Plan is formulated.
I. General Requirements
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the plan comprehensively implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the CPC and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee. Focusing on the "1+2+4+N" target task system, it seizes opportunities from the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, adheres to the main direction of high-quality manufacturing development, takes technological innovation as the guide, elevates strategic emerging industries and industrializes cutting-edge technologies as the main line, and uses industry chain cluster construction as the starting point. It coordinates breakthroughs in key technologies, cultivation of key products, application scenario traction, and ecosystem construction, accelerates the cultivation of strategic emerging industries as pillar industries, promotes future industries to gradually become new economic growth points, creates new engines for industrial succession development, and develops new quality productive forces according to local conditions, providing strong support for writing a new chapter of Chinese modernization in central China.
By 2027, the added value of strategic emerging industries across the province will grow by more than 11% annually, accounting for over 27% of the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size. The future industrial system will be accelerated in construction, forming a development pattern where future industries and strategic emerging industries develop in a tiered and successive manner. Around 50 provincial-level or above R&D innovation platforms will be laid out, 50 cutting-edge leading technologies and key core technologies will be broken through, around 50 leading enterprises with dominant industrial ecosystem influence will be cultivated, 100 typical application scenarios will be created, and about 8 national-level strategic emerging industry clusters and advanced manufacturing industry clusters will be built.
II. Key Directions
(I) Promote the integrated and clustered development of strategic emerging industries. Adhere to integrated and clustered development, focusing on extending, supplementing, and strengthening the industrial chain, continuously enhancing the scale, level, and competitiveness of strategic emerging industries such as new-generation information technology, high-end equipment, new energy and intelligent connected vehicles, biomedicine, new materials, and low-altitude economy.
1. New-Generation Information Technology. Focus on specialized chips, high-end screens, smart terminals, sensors, and new computing power, accelerating the cultivation of new display and smart terminal, smart sensor and semiconductor, and advanced computing industries, forming an "chip-screen-network-terminal-device" industrial ecosystem.
2. High-End Equipment. Enhance the high-end levels of new power equipment, advanced agricultural machinery, advanced engineering equipment, and energy-saving and environmental protection equipment. Vigorously develop major equipment and key parts such as high-end instruments and meters, intelligent robots, high-end CNC machine tools, and high-end bearings, promoting the intelligent and service-oriented transformation of large-scale equipment manufacturing.
3. New Energy and Intelligent Connected Vehicles. Promote the integrated development of new energy whole vehicles, parts, and after-market services, supporting whole vehicle enterprises to expand production and improve quality, driving the R&D of intelligent connected car models, integrating functions such as intelligent interaction, automatic cruising, and vehicle-road coordination, and enhancing the supporting capacity of key parts. By 2027, it is aimed to achieve an annual production of 1.5 million units of new energy whole vehicles.
4. Biomedicine. Support the full-chain development of innovative drugs, focusing on cultivating biotech pharmaceuticals, modern traditional Chinese medicine, high-quality generic drugs, new vaccines, and diagnostic reagents, achieving breakthroughs in new medical imaging equipment, rehabilitation medical equipment, and high-end implantable products.
5. New Materials. Accelerate the iteration and upgrading of advantageous materials such as super-hard materials, nylon new materials, graphite and ceramic materials, and electronic functional materials, pushing for breakthroughs in industrialization bottlenecks of high-quality alloys, high-performance fibers and composite materials, functional membrane materials, new display materials, new energy materials, bio-based materials, and high-purity quartz materials.
6. Low-altitude economy. Accelerate the construction of low-altitude intelligent network facilities, strengthen the R&D of whole machines such as unmanned aerial vehicles and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and improve the industrial ecosystem of key parts, core systems, and low-altitude services.
(2) Accelerate the forward-looking layout of future industries. Focusing on key directions such as future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future energy, future space, and future health, concentrate on tracks with strong national will, broad penetration areas, and strong lock-in effects, and proactively lay out future industries including artificial intelligence, hydrogen and new-type energy storage, biomanufacturing, quantum technology, next-generation information networks, and frontier new materials. Actively lay out cutting-edge industry sectors such as advanced nuclear energy, brain-like intelligence, and aerospace information.
1. Artificial Intelligence. Promote the coordinated development of large AI models, smart computing power clusters, and high-quality datasets, and accelerate the development of the AI terminal industry. Strengthen the technological breakthroughs and R&D of key parts for humanoid robot "big and small brains", and develop multi-drive route humanoid robot bodies. Conduct R&D and demonstration verification of core components, materials, and systems for brain-computer interfaces, and promote the industrialisation of brain-computer interface technology.
2. Hydrogen and New-Type Energy Storage. Speed up the R&D of key technologies and core components in the production, storage, transportation, and application of hydrogen from renewable energy, and explore the comprehensive demonstration and application of hydrogen. Strengthen the R&D of solid-state batteries, sodium-ion batteries, flow batteries, and metal-air batteries, and promote the widespread application of new-type energy storage in all scenarios.
3. Biomanufacturing. Advance breakthroughs in cell and gene, synthetic biology, and biological breeding technologies, promote the integrated development of biotechnology and information technology, strengthen the industrialisation efforts of core strains and enzyme preparations, and accelerate the development and application of new products in areas such as biopharmaceuticals, biochemicals, biomaterials, and biofoods.
4. Quantum Technology. Focus on the R&D of superconducting quantum chips and quantum computer systems in the fields of quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum precision measurement, break through technologies such as quantum key distribution and quantum secure communication, and develop quantum sensing, quantum detection materials, and devices, promoting the application of quantum technology in key scenarios.
5. Next-Generation Information Networks. Promote the R&D and application of 5G enhancement evolution, 6G, direct satellite connection for mobile phones, and computing power networks, accelerate the development of next-generation optical communications and new-generation mobile communications, and build a new generation of information network systems that integrate space, air, and ground, sensing and computing, and deeply integrate facilities and applications.
6. Frontier New Materials. Promote the R&D and application of nanomaterials, additive manufacturing materials, high-performance superconducting materials, biomedical materials, bionic intelligent materials, and high-performance composite materials, and accelerate the large-scale development of next-generation semiconductor materials and high-purity quartz materials.
III. Key Initiatives
(1) Implementation of Innovation Capability Enhancement Initiatives. The province will regularly conduct "unveiling the list and assigning the lead" campaigns for tackling key industrial technologies, and organize a series of provincial-level science and technology programs and major projects. Efforts will be made to integrate provincial laboratories, universities, and research institutions into the national laboratory system, plan and construct major provincial-level science and technology infrastructure, and strengthen breakthroughs in original technologies and applied basic research. The Industrial Innovation Platform Capability Enhancement Project will be implemented, deploying a number of new-type R&D institutions such as industrial technology engineering centers and manufacturing innovation centers, and establishing concept verification centers and pilot testing platforms. Industrial innovation projects will be explored, holistically advancing tasks such as innovation infrastructure construction, breakthroughs in key core technologies, development and iteration of independent innovation products, and expansion of application scenarios.
(2) Implementation of Enterprise Tiered Cultivation Initiatives. Innovative approaches to investment attraction will be adopted to accelerate the introduction of a group of technology-based enterprises, high-end R&D institutions, and major industrial projects. Innovative enterprises will be supported in integrating upstream and downstream resources of the industry chain, leading the formation of high-level innovation consortia, and creating a number of ecosystem-leading enterprises with industry chain-driving and market-leading roles. Future industrial enterprises will be cultivated through targeted services and policy support, fostering a group of high-growth enterprises and specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and innovative "little giant" enterprises. Disruptive technology innovation competitions and other activities will be held to identify and nurture seed-stage projects, accelerating the incubation of promising startups. Enterprises will be encouraged to invest in frontier technologies and increase investments in strategic emerging industries and future industries.
(3) Implementation of AI Empowerment Initiatives. The "AI+" initiative will be deepened, with accelerated construction of AI industry empowerment centers to cultivate and promote high-value application scenarios, creating platforms for AI resource aggregation and independent ecosystem development. Full-coverage digital transformation actions in manufacturing will be implemented, building smart workshops and smart factories to extend AI applications across the entire process, including R&D design, production, and operations management, creating intelligent scenarios such as virtual simulation design, intelligent production scheduling, smart logistics lines, and human-machine collaboration. The integration of AI with synthetic biology, drug and new material R&D will be accelerated, reconstructing R&D design paradigms and reshaping production models.
(4) Implementation of Scenario Demonstration and Leadership Initiatives. Focusing on key areas such as new materials, biomanufacturing, quantum technology, and future energy, the guiding role of major science and technology projects and significant engineering projects will be leveraged to encourage state-owned enterprises, technology-based key enterprises, universities, and research institutions to plan high-value major scenario projects, driving innovation, application, and breakthroughs in frontier technologies. Focusing on areas such as artificial intelligence, next-generation information technology, and the low-altitude economy, a number of comprehensive and industry-specific integrated scenarios will be constructed and opened up. These scenarios aim to promote the large-scale iterative application of technologies through practical use, attract innovative entities, and accelerate the process of industrialisation. Efforts will also be made to encourage enterprises to increase their investment in scenario construction and openness, explore market-oriented scenario cultivation mechanisms, and regularly advance the discovery, publication, supply and demand matching, and construction and operation of scenarios.
(V) Implement an action plan for upgrading the industry chain clusters. Strengthen the construction of key industry chains, improve the industry chain maps, reinforce the leading role of chain leaders, and highlight the attraction of investments and talents along the chain, thereby enhancing the scale and level of the industry chain clusters. A coordinated layout for strategic emerging industries will be strengthened, supporting key regions with advantages in major industrial project construction, key industry applications, and ecological system building, to create a batch of strategic emerging and future industry clusters. An advanced manufacturing cluster development and enhancement initiative will be carried out, promoting the development of superhard materials and modern agricultural machinery equipment clusters towards world-class advanced manufacturing clusters, and actively creating national-level advanced manufacturing clusters in new-type power equipment and smart terminals. Cluster promotion institutions will be vigorously cultivated, working together to advance scientific and technological innovation, investment and financing, and transformation and upgrading.
(VI) Implement an action plan for improving carrier spaces. The construction of Central China Science City and Central China Medical Science City will be optimized, innovating cooperation models between research institutes, enterprises, and universities, and enhancing the capabilities for transforming scientific and technological achievements and incubating cutting-edge technologies. Based on the characteristics of different development zones, a number of specialized and professional industrial parks will be developed, improving public services and market-oriented operations, and accelerating the aggregation of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain. The ongoing "Smart Island" construction will continue, establishing a full-chain service system encompassing "space + incubation + fund + service + ecology", and promoting advanced incubation and industry chain incubation models to attract a batch of "hard tech" start-ups. In suitable locations, future industry innovation ecosystem communities will be planned and built, deepening all-element empowerment, and fostering an innovative environment.
(VII) Implement an action plan for gathering and supporting elements. Greater financial support from government funds will be provided, establishing a mechanism for connecting venture capital with major projects, and attracting various types of industrial and financial capital to participate actively. Efforts will be intensified to introduce high-level talents, strengthen the construction of relevant disciplines and majors in higher education institutions, and build a number of future technology colleges and outstanding engineer colleges. The level of data element development and utilization will be improved, establishing and perfecting basic systems for data resource registration, trading, circulation, and security, promoting data sharing, and supporting the construction of application scenarios and industry nurturing. A list of major projects will be established, implementing a series of landmark and leading major projects on a rolling basis, and striving to include more projects within the scope of support from central budgetary funds, ultra-long-term special treasury bonds, national major science and technology projects, and national key R&D plans.
IV. Implementation and Organization
At the provincial level, a mechanism for fostering and expanding strategic emerging industries and forward planning of future industries will be established. The Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Department of Science and Technology, and Department of Industry and Information Technology, in conjunction with relevant departments, will coordinate and promote the implementation of the action plan. Localities should, based on their actual industrial development, layout key industries according to local conditions, increase the input of various elements and resources, and ensure the effective implementation of work through coordination at all levels. It is necessary to improve the statistical monitoring system for strategic emerging industries and future industries, conduct statistical analysis and operational monitoring of related industries. Relying on industry associations, societies, research institutions, etc., track the development trends of cutting-edge technologies and the direction of industrialisation, strengthen trend forecasting and policy research, and provide decision-making support for industrial development.
