At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating. In the grand blueprint outlined in the "14th Five-Year Plan" proposal, "maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing" has been written into the top-level design, providing a new direction for China's manufacturing to move towards high-quality development. The open policies emphasized in the proposal also provide momentum for Chinese manufacturing to integrate into the global industrial chain and value chain.

Innovation-Driven, Breaking through the High End

In recent years, China has reached or even surpassed international peers in fields such as electric vehicles, wind turbines, and machinery manufacturing, and this momentum is expanding to more high-tech areas. Taking high-end display technology as an example, it is an important area of electronic information technology. In the past, Japanese and South Korean companies had absolute control over this field, and Chinese companies were "choked." Hisense Group successfully developed RGB 3D color control liquid crystal display technology through long-term R&D investment, achieving mass production 1.5 years ahead of foreign brands. This is the result of Hisense's long-term commitment to technological research and development, providing important support for the technological iteration of the entire display industry.

This photo was taken on September 5, 2025, at the Berlin International Consumer Electronics Show, showing the Hisense exhibition area. Xinhua News Agency

Foreign media have highly evaluated this. Wired magazine reported that Hisense demonstrated how technology can change homes and cities based on scenario-based applications, maximizing convenience, sustainability, and user satisfaction. It is evident that technological innovation has become the key to Chinese manufacturing breaking through the high end and achieving a leap forward.

The National-Level Manufacturing Single-Champion Enterprise is known as the "jewel" on the crown of manufacturing. Currently, five enterprises under Hisense Group have received this honor. This reflects the health and resilience of a country's manufacturing system and represents the enterprise-level practice of building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as its backbone. A batch of enterprises like Hisense are reaching international leading levels through technological innovation and intelligent upgrades, promoting the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry.

Innovation-driven not only manifests in individual enterprises' technological breakthroughs but also in the collaborative innovation of the entire industrial chain. By establishing joint laboratories with suppliers and universities, Hisense has jointly promoted the advancement of emerging display technologies such as Mini LED, accelerating the integration of industry R&D resources. As the Atlantic Council, a U.S. think tank, pointed out in its analysis report: "China is building a full-chain innovation system covering basic research, application development, and industrialization through systematic innovation policies. This model is changing the global innovation landscape."

Quality Management, Forging Brands

Quality is the lifeline of a company and an important cornerstone for the upgrading of Chinese manufacturing. Under the context of the "14th Five-Year Plan," Chinese manufacturing is shifting from scale expansion to quality improvement, striving to build world-class brands with international competitiveness.

Hisense has won the National Quality Technology First Prize three times, and its subsidiaries have won Japan's highest quality management award, the Deming Prize, twice. In 2025, two enterprises under Hisense were selected as high-level quality management enterprises by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, with only 43 enterprises nationwide receiving this honor. These honors reflect Hisense's unwavering pursuit of quality. As Hisense Group Chairman Jia Shaokian emphasized: "Quality is morality, a value, and must never be ignored!" Hisense has elevated quality from a technical level to the height of morality and business philosophy.

To ensure product quality, Hisense has established a comprehensive R&D quality assurance system, continuously improving R&D capabilities and supply chain management. At the same time, Hisense pays attention to hard work in areas that users cannot see, such as complex environmental real-scenario testing for central air conditioning products before they are launched, and thousands of experiments conducted for the ULED X technology platform to adapt to various environmental lighting conditions. This extreme pursuit of quality has become the distinct foundation of Hisense products.

At the IFA in September, the new Hisense RGB-Mini LED TV attracted a large number of attendees to stop and watch.

The Financial Times quoted analysts who pointed out that China is committed to enhancing its technological level through the next five-year plan. And quality is undoubtedly a crucial part. Driven by AI and data, Hisense strengthens the application of intelligent technologies, transforming quality control from post-event detection to pre-event prevention, and upgrading from experience-based judgment to data-driven decision-making. It has built a digital quality management system covering the entire product life cycle, offering a reference model for global manufacturing.

Sailing Abroad, Expanding Globally

In today's era of deepening globalization, Chinese manufacturing has deeply integrated into the global industrial chain and value chain. The "14th Five-Year Plan" proposal emphasizes opening up and high-standard openness, providing broader space for Chinese manufacturing to go global.

As one of China's earliest "going-out" enterprises, Hisense proposed the "majority overseas" development strategy in 2006. It has 30 R&D institutions, 37 industrial parks and manufacturing bases, and 64 overseas companies and offices around the world, driving 26 supplier enterprises to go abroad, establishing industrial parks in Mexico, Thailand, and other places, forming a "leading head, supporting collaboration" cluster network. This open and win-win cooperation model not only enhances Hisense's international competitiveness but also promotes the internationalization of the entire industrial chain.

Hisense's manufacturing base is equipped with intelligent equipment such as industrial robots, achieving a smart leap in the production process.

Foreign media generally believe that the internationalization process of Chinese manufacturing is changing the global industrial landscape. The Modern Diplomacy website pointed out that China's "14th Five-Year Plan" proposal lists building a modern industrial system as an important task, which is expected to give rise to a brand-new advanced technology industry sector, continuously injecting power into China's high-quality economic development. Deutsche Welle reported that China is committed to enhancing its technological level through the next five-year plan, focusing on key areas and core technologies, which will have a profound impact on China's and even the global industrial path.

Hisense's international practices are a microcosm of Chinese manufacturing going global. Through technological innovation, quality management, and global market layout, Chinese manufacturing is gradually shifting from "following" to "running side by side" and even "leading," playing an increasingly important role in the global industrial landscape.

Standing at the new starting point of the "14th Five-Year Plan," Chinese manufacturing is moving toward a new stage of high-quality development, guided by innovation-driven development, supported by quality management, and oriented by a global perspective. From technological innovation to quality improvement, and then to global market layout, Chinese manufacturing is gradually breaking through international barriers, gaining worldwide recognition, and contributing Chinese wisdom and solutions to the evolution of the global industrial landscape. (Jianghai)

Original: toutiao.com/article/7581418560614974003/

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