Economic Daily: Creating a new growth engine for bio-manufacturing

The "Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Twentieth Party Central Committee clearly proposes forward-looking planning for future industries, promoting quantum technology, bio-manufacturing, hydrogen energy, and nuclear fusion energy to become new economic growth points. This important strategic deployment will elevate bio-manufacturing to the core position of national industrial development, endowing it with the historical mission of driving economic transformation and nurturing new productive forces. It is also necessary to realize clearly that there is still a gap between China and the international leading level in core technology, original innovation capacity building, and competitiveness in high value-added products. Particularly in areas such as high-end industrial enzyme preparations, core biological design software, and key equipment manufacturing, there are still weaknesses. Promoting high-quality development of the bio-manufacturing industry requires more systematic and powerful measures. Strengthening top-level design and strategic guidance. It is necessary to formulate a clearer national long-term plan for the development of bio-manufacturing, specify the priority development directions and key product catalog. Coordinate resources from various scientific and technological plans, strengthen long-term stable support for underlying technologies such as synthetic biology, enzyme engineering, and biobiosensors, and common platform technologies. Establish regulations, standards, and access systems that are tailored to the characteristics of bio-manufacturing products to shorten the time from innovation to product launch.