As the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Beijing's industrial and information software sectors collectively generated nearly one trillion yuan in added value during the first half of the year, accounting for 36.6% of the city's GDP, marking a solid and robust start for high-end sophisticated industry development. On September 9, the "Beijing 15th Five-Year Plan Period High-End Sophisticated Industry Development Plan" was officially released, outlining strategies to accelerate the growth of new quality productive forces and expand high-end sophisticated industries.
The comprehensive plan, structured across 8 chapters and 22 provisions, details coordinated efforts to upgrade traditional industries, cultivate emerging sectors, and position future industries. It emphasizes boosting the share of high-end sophisticated industry added value to 40% of GDP by 2030, aiming to position Beijing as a globally influential hub for emerging industries and a leader in future industries, while driving the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region toward becoming a dynamic new industrialization demonstration zone.
The plan establishes 17 major quantitative indicators for 2030, projecting the number of trillion-yuan high-end sophisticated industry clusters to grow to five, specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to reach 17,000, national-level smart factories to total 100, and national green factories to hit 260, alongside achieving a 50% supporting rate for key industrial chains in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Understanding "high-end sophisticated" is essential to grasping Beijing's industrial evolution and future direction, as this development path represents not an optional choice but a mandatory answer for the capital's high-quality growth. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Beijing defines high-end sophisticated industries as technology-intensive collections with efficient total factor input and superior resource benefits, primarily comprising advanced manufacturing, high-tech services, and future industries.
A "2261" industrial structure has been adopted as the core framework, focusing on emerging and future industries. The first "2" targets information technology and biotechnology, optimizing two trillion-yuan leading industries: next-generation information technology and medicine and healthcare. The second "2" centers on supporting the dual benchmark cities for global digital economy and international green economy, expanding artificial intelligence and green low-carbon as two emerging pillar industries.
The "6" highlights six industries poised for energy-level leaps toward technology leadership and higher value chains, including integrated circuits, robotics and intelligent manufacturing, intelligent connected vehicles, aerospace technology, new materials, and new-type safety and emergency solutions. For instance, Beijing will continue building safe, technologically advanced, and comfortable local-made vehicles, gradually raising the share of new energy vehicles to 70%, while accelerating commercial aerospace growth through breakthroughs in reusable rockets and high-thrust engines to participate in national large-scale constellation construction.
The final "1" refers to the future industry growth matrix, leveraging original innovation resources to systematically advance six directions: future information, future health, future manufacturing, future energy, future materials, and future space, creating a matrix characterized by "sustained momentum, potential stimulation, and forward-looking guidance."
As the "core" of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, high-end sophisticated industry development extends beyond the city's borders, requiring both strengthening Beijing's innovation hub and radiating its influence for broader transformation of innovative achievements throughout the region. The plan establishes a spatial layout featuring "close research-production links, north-south connectivity, and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordination," developing four research-production intensive zones including Haidian-Changping, Huairou-Shunyi, Fengtai-Fangshan, and Economic Development Zone-Tongzhou-Daxing.
Within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei framework, the plan promotes the alignment of "six chains and seven clusters" with "two corridors and four belts" to forge world-class advanced manufacturing clusters. Industrial coordination serves as the key support for regional integrated development, with flagship cross-regional demonstration projects creating replicable coordination models. In the automotive sector, efforts will accelerate construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei intelligent connected new energy vehicle technology and ecological port, coordinating park resources across the three regions and improving vehicle and components supporting systems.
In robotics, a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei humanoid robot industrial chain coordination project will be implemented to connect innovation, pilot testing, and manufacturing across the entire chain. In hydrogen energy, comprehensive application pilots will be established to drive collaborative innovation throughout the "production-storage-transmission-use" value chain.
To materialize intelligent, green, and integrated development, Beijing will launch future factory pilot programs with a target of establishing around 10 future factories by 2030 in key sectors such as robotics, medicine and healthcare, and intelligent connected vehicles. The plan supports future factories in pioneering a new manufacturing model combining "humanoid robots plus intelligent computing power plus green energy," enabling deeper robot participation in production operations and achieving autonomous perception, analytical decision-making, and dynamic optimization throughout processes via intelligent computing, while raising green energy usage and creating "factory intelligences" with fully integrated research, production, operation, and service chains capable of continuous learning and self-iteration.