Heavy industry is a sector that provides the means of production based on the energy and raw materials industry and centered on the production of high-grade durable consumer goods, the equipment industry, the machinery industry, and so on. Heavy industry includes the iron and steel industry, metallurgical industry, machinery, energy (electricity, oil, coal, natural gas, etc.), chemical, and materials industries.
Light industry is mainly the industrial sector that produces the means of living. Such as: food, textile, furniture, paper, printing, daily-use chemicals, stationery, cultural goods, sporting goods industry. Light industry is the main source of urban and rural residents of the means of consumption, according to the different raw materials used can be divided into two categories: agricultural products as raw materials for light industry and non-agricultural products as raw materials for light industry.
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"Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" is the decisive period for building a moderately prosperous society in all aspects, and it is the key period for basically realizing the industrialization, and nowadays, all countries in the world are in the process of adjusting their economic structure in depth, and there are many uncertainties in the global economy, and China's industrial China's industry has been subjected to the double squeeze of developed and developing countries.
Vigorously promote the supply-side structural reform, with innovation and development as the theme, quality and efficiency as the center, technology and brand as the engine, to promote industrial transformation and upgrading, which is of great significance to China's industry from big to strong, and build a manufacturing power. Under the new normal China's economy has maintained a steady progress, steady improvement, but we also need to see that at the same time there is a phenomenon of deconstruction to the virtual.
We should accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, cultivate the development of new industries and productive service industries, strengthen independent innovation and brand building, and enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises; and take the revitalization of the nation as our own responsibility, and innovate in inheritance and develop in innovation. As soon as possible to form a new system of modern industry based on advanced manufacturing.
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