Beyond Made in China 2025 – China’s dream of broad-based industrial greatness
Alexander Brown
Max J. Zenglein
MERICS latest analysis focuses on the “Made in China 2025” strategy which the government of Xi Jinping launched a decade ago. As MERICS experts Alexander Brown and Max J. Zenglein point out in their piece, the focus of the strategy has shifted significantly: After ten years of paying particular attention to ten critical sectors, geopolitical tensions have shifted the goals of "Made in China 2025" to encompass a broader national security strategy based on industrial supremacy. Beijing wants to become a global manufacturing superpower in all sectors.
About authors
Alexander Brown
Senior Analyst at Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)
Industrial policy; foreign economic policy
Max J. Zenglein
Chief Economist at Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)
China’s macroeconomic development; international trade and investment; economic reforms