China has implemented a four-year plan to deepen innovation and development of service-oriented manufacturing. This marks a major policy step in shifting manufacturing toward deeper integration with services, digital intelligence and value-added growth.

The plan defines service-oriented manufacturing as a model that orients around customer demand, uses digital and intelligent technologies as support, embeds service elements deeply across the entire lifecycle of manufactured products, and extends industry chains. It reshapes value chains, builds new ecosystems, and achieves a fusion of manufacturing and service as a new industrial form.

The plan stresses the new development paradigm of innovation, coordination, and green, open and shared development. It focuses on building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing at its core and deep integration of information and industrialization.

It emphasizes reform momentum, tech-industrial innovation, application-driven transformation, integration development, and strengthening service industries that support production. Other focus areas are activation of enterprise vitality, and optimization of industrial ecology.

Concrete targets have been set with a 2028 deadline: The role of servitized manufacturing in high-quality manufacturing should be significantly enhanced; 20 standards should be built; 50 leading brands cultivated; 100 innovation development highlands constructed; typical model applications widely spread; and the ecosystem continuously upgraded. Multi-level, broad-domain, deep-integration of manufacturing and service should be further completed, thus laying a solid foundation for a world-class level manufacturing system with Chinese characteristics.

The plan defines seven major tasks:

- Strengthening common-generic technology breakthroughs and model innovation;

- Growing key production-oriented service industries;

- Promoting mode diffusion of servitized manufacturing across sectors and field;

- Building a standard system;

- Stimulating business vitality;

- Building development highlands;

-Consolidating the foundational infra-service base.

These tasks are accompanied by three special actions: shared manufacturing cultivation, brand enhancement, and fusion application scenario demonstration.

"Shared manufacturing" action means building shared manufacturing platforms and factories, aggregating equipment, tools, production lines and test facilities, enabling online order-matching, multi-plant collaboration and intelligent scheduling.

"Brand elevation" targets cultivating service-manufacturing top enterprises and brand images.

The "fusion application scenario" supports production demand, consumption demand and national strategic demand scenarios for service-manufacturing.

In today's era of accelerating information-technology iteration, industrial-service fusion has become a key direction for manufacturing development. Service-oriented manufacturing enhances product value-added, boosts enterprise competitiveness, and strengthens supply-chain resilience.

It also promotes the fusion of advanced manufacturing and modern services, advances the construction of a modern industry system and fosters new quality productive forces.