At the executive meeting of the State Council on August 24, the core issue was only one: to deploy and promote the improvement of the standards and quality of consumer goods, increase the effective supply of "made in China" and meet the demand of consumption upgrading. We can see the weight of this matter.

Promoting "made in China" to complete a "quality revolution" and building an upgraded version of China's economy as well as China's economy moving towards the middle and high end can be described as a continuous inheritance. Premier Li Keqiang has been thinking about this all the time. Previously, the executive meeting of the State Council on April 6 decided to implement the "plan for standardization and quality improvement of equipment manufacturing industry" to lead the upgrading of "made in China". The key areas identified are robots, advanced rail transit equipment, agricultural machinery, high-performance medical devices, etc. Logic can be understood as "following the trend", that is, to solve the problem of "what to build with" from the perspective of equipment.

The logic of this executive meeting can be understood as "backward pressure", that is, starting from the consumer goods of the terminal, to solve the problem of "why to make". Why? Consumer goods, of course, are fundamentally made to meet the needs of consumers. At this stage of China's development, there is a considerable number of middle-income groups, whose consumption demand has been upgraded from the simple stage of food and clothing in the past to the stage of pursuing quality at present. In order to produce a large number of products that consumers are willing to buy and accept, it is bound to require the corresponding follow-up of the whole manufacturing industry, which is called "backward force" -- with the improvement of consumer goods standards and quality, the manufacturing industry is forced to transform and upgrade.

"Following the trend" and "pushing backward" both mean that "made in China" needs to complete a "quality revolution"“ "Made in China" or "made in China" can no longer be just a synonym for low-end and low-cost products“ "Made in China" has never rejected or given up "high and big".

From the perspective of historical context, at the beginning of reform and opening up in the 1980s, a large number of foreign consumer goods entered the Chinese market, from watches, household appliances to automobiles. It is in this "open eyes to see the world", after hard experience, domestic products gradually realized import substitution, occupied most of the domestic market, and began to sell globally. However, as mentioned above, China is now entering a new stage of development. More and more consumers have higher demand, but the quality of many domestic products has not kept up. At the same time, in terms of product innovation, domestic products are also lacking. Therefore, it is not surprising that a large number of consumer goods are imported, and even residents spend as much as 1.5 trillion yuan a year abroad.

Obviously, if we do not comprehensively improve the standards and quality of consumer goods, on the one hand, it will reduce consumer trust and directly affect the domestic consumer market; On the other hand, it will weaken the international competitiveness of Chinese products and affect the export trade. The Prime Minister even used the term "urgent" to describe the current situation.

For this reason, the prime minister takes promoting "made in China" to complete a "quality revolution" as a main line, which runs through almost all aspects of economic work. This executive meeting will only arrange such a topic: closely around the fields of general consumer goods such as food, household appliances, consumer electronics, decoration, clothing, cosmetics and daily chemicals, supplies for women, children, the elderly and the disabled, cultural, educational, sports and leisure products with strong consumer demand and closely related to people's daily life, so as to achieve quality improvement. Combined with the executive meeting on April 6, there are not only sophisticated equipment manufacturing, but also daily consumer goods close to people's livelihood. So far, the "made in China" puzzle is more complete. As the premier pointed out earlier, "made in China 2025" must not only focus on equipment, but also the upgrading of the whole industrial chain.

In the final analysis, what does it rely on to complete the "quality revolution" of "made in China"? There is no doubt that this is the entrepreneurship and craftsmanship that Premier Li Keqiang has repeatedly emphasized. With the former, there will be continuous innovation of the system; Only with the latter can we keep improving our products.

(source: China government website)