China should intensify efforts to implement Made in China 2025: premier

Workers on a motor vehicle production line at a factory in Qinzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. BEIJING - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has said that more efforts should be made to implement "Made in China 2025," a plan released last year to transform China from a manufacturing giant into a world manufacturing power. The Made in China 2025 plan should be combined with the country's Internet Plus action plan and promotion of mass entrepreneurship and innovation to promote the positive interaction between new growth impetus and traditional sectors, the premier said. As manufacturing is a major part of real economy and a major field of China's supply-side structural reform, the country should continue to push forward the implementation of the Made in China 2025 plan, Ma said. China should enhance coordination of central and local government efforts, build national manufacturing innovation centers, consolidate industrial foundation and optimize the market environment, Ma said.