Since the start of the 14th Five‑Year Plan, Anhui has been insisting on letting scientific and technological innovation drive industrial innovation, cultivating and expanding advanced manufacturing clusters. Its industrial development has taken on a favorable momentum: rising position, improving structure, better quality and efficiency, and movement toward new industries—together shouldering roughly half of the province’s economic advance.

Breaking the 1‑million‑vehicle mark and setting a new record! That is the impressive result Anhui has just posted for vehicle exports this year. The surge in “going global” reflects a substantial leap in the overall strength of the province’s auto manufacturing. In recent years the provincial government has targeted the automotive goals of the 14th Five‑Year Plan, accelerated a spatial industrial layout centered on Hefei and Wuhu with other cities closely supporting them, and rolled out guiding opinions and action plans to help OEMs build new plants, develop new products, and open new markets.

So far, Anhui’s auto manufacturing sector has grown to more than 1,600 enterprises above the designated size—nearly double the number at the end of the 13th Five‑Year Plan—vehicle output has tripled and new‑energy vehicle production has grown fifteenfold. In the first ten months of this year the province produced 2.75 million vehicles and 1.43 million new‑energy vehicles, ranking first in the country on both counts.

Strengthening industries and enlarging clusters is a top priority for Anhui in building a strong manufacturing province during the 14th Five‑Year Plan. The provincial party committee and government have reinforced top‑level design and resolutely pursued the “tech‑innovation + industry,” “bases + funds,” and “leading companies + supporting suppliers” development pathways, applying targeted measures for each industrial chain. They launched an advanced‑manufacturing investment “pace‑setter” program and actions to consolidate and boost manufacturing investment; for a time manufacturing investment growth exceeded 10% for 48 consecutive months. Leveraging global platforms, the province intensified attracting investment and talent: over the past five years the World Manufacturing Convention resulted in more than 3,300 signed projects with total investment of about CNY 2 trillion, over 80% of which were in emerging industries.

Nurtured by this fertile ground, innovation has begun to yield industrial fruits. Today, products made in Anhui account for 10% of the world’s display panels, 8% of China’s industrial robots, 10% of the country’s automobiles and new‑energy vehicles, 15% of its household appliances, and 20% of its photovoltaic modules. Anhui ranks third nationally in overall competitiveness for advanced photovoltaics and new energy storage; its artificial intelligence development index ranks fifth in the country. A wave of emerging and future industries—commercial space, the low‑altitude economy, third‑generation semiconductors, and others—has rapidly risen.

During the 14th Five‑Year Plan, Anhui historically entered the ranks of major industrial provinces: the number of industrial enterprises above designated size rose from 18,000 to 25,000, and national high‑tech enterprises increased from 8,500 to 23,000. Output value of the province’s strategic emerging industries grew at an average annual rate of 16.1%, raising their share of above designated size industrial output from 40.3% to 43.6%. In the first ten months of this year, the province’s industrial value added for enterprises above designated size increased by 9.1% year‑on‑year—3 percentage points higher than the national average—ranking third nationwide and reaching its highest position in nearly a decade.

Source: Anhui News Network