Xi Jinping: Enhance China manufacturing and Switzerland Industry 4.0 Link up

18 January 2017

Local time on January 16th morning, President Xi Jinping in Bern with Swiss Confederation president Doris Leuthard

held talks and met with reporters. During a meeting with reporters, Xi Jinping said, in the morning the two sides held 

fruitful talks, and witnessed the signing of the Swiss ten cooperation documents. Xi Jinping pointed out that "the two 

countries will promote the establishment of the high level innovation platform", strengthening the "Made in China 2025" 

and "Swiss industrial 4.0" link up.

Xi Jinping said: "we have always believed that pragmatic cooperation in various fields between the two countries 

highlights colorful, fruitful", "two different social systems, different stages of development, different countries friendly 

cooperation model". Xi Jinping said that the two countries will seize the world multi polarization, the inevitable trend of 

economic globalization, the development of an open, inclusive concept and adhere to the win-win cooperation path, 

promote bilateral relations to achieve a higher level of development, to better benefit the people, convey confidence to 

the people of the world, provide positive energy.

Xi Jinping pointed out: the two countries will promote the establishment of a high level of innovation platform, and 

strengthen the "Made in China 2025" and "Swiss industrial 4.0" in the overall link up of this new mechanism under the 

guidance of enterprises and research institutions to promote bilateral cooperation in innovation.

Xi Jinping also said that the two countries will jointly host the 2017 Sino Swiss tourism year, to strengthen bilateral 

tourism cooperation. The two sides are willing to host the Winter Olympics in 2022 as an opportunity to strengthen 

cooperation between the two countries in winter sports.

What is "Made in China 2025"?

The manufacturing industry is the mainstay of the national economy, is the main battlefield of technological innovation, 

is the foundation of our country, our country is the base power. At present, the global manufacturing industry 

development pattern of China's economic development and the significant changes in the environment, we must firmly 

grasp the strategic opportunity of the rare, outstanding innovation drive, optimize the policy environment, play the 

advantages of the system, realize the manufacturing shift to China innovation, change China speed to Chinese quality, 

change China products to China brand.

The State Council issued the Made in China 2025 in May 2015, the deployment of a comprehensive promotion of the 

implementation of the strategy of manufacturing power, which is the implementation of China's manufacturing power 

strategy of the first ten years of the program of action.

Made in China 2025 is put forward, adhere to the "innovation, quality first, green development, structural optimization, 

the basic principle of people-oriented, adhere to the" market-oriented, government guidance, based on the current and 

long-term, overall progress, key breakthrough, independent development, the basic principles of open cooperation ", 

through the" three steps "to achieve the strategic objectives of manufacturing power: the first step, in 2025 entered the

ranks of manufacturing power; the second step, to 2035, China's manufacturing industry as a whole reached medium 

level of world manufacturing power camp; third step, to the new China was founded in one hundred years, our 

manufacturing power position, comprehensive strength in the world manufacturing industry forefront.

What is Swiss Industrial 4.0?

The concept of "Industry 4.0" was born in 2011 in Germany Hannover Expo. Although people still hot "definition and 

industry standard 4". Generally speaking, "4" refers to the application of information communication technology in the 

field of industrial production, so as to realize the intelligent, personalized and integrated production.

Compared with the previous three industrial revolution, known as the "fourth industrial revolution" of the "4 industry" is 

not reflected in a single breakthrough. In the view of many European companies, instead of saying "4 industry" is a 

revolution, as it is an evolution. It can be said that the "industrial 4" is widely used the characteristics of information 

technology, is a continuation of the third industrial revolution.

Experts believe that: 4 Swiss industrial embodied in Switzerland and give full play to its mechanical, textile, tools, 

watches and other advantages of traditional fine manufacturing, and vigorously promote the intelligent manufacturing, 

machinery, raw materials and products through the "Internet of things" transmission of information, to complete the 

production task.

Sino Swiss innovation cooperation unlimited

The future of intelligent manufacturing industry 4 tide torrent, how to use information and communication technology to

improve manufacturing efficiency, to create a "smart" factory, is a common proposition in Chinese and Swiss innovation 

on the road.

According to the 2016 global innovation index of World Intellectual Property Organization released the latest, 

Switzerland topped the list for sixth consecutive years. The Swiss not only per capita number of patents in the world, 

per capita ratio won the Nobel prize for science is far more than other countries.

China ambassador to Swiss Confederation Geng Wenbing once the Swiss people's sense of innovation and pragmatic 

spirit of the European country has always been based for decades in the developed world, maintain economic, financial 

power status, is the world's richest man said. In January 2017, Xi Jinping visited Switzerland on the eve of Geng be 

accepted a joint interview with media in China special mention: "when Bern Switzerland is known as the" innovation 

country ", China five development ideas in innovation in the first row, the two countries are highly consistent in 

innovative ideas, great potential for cooperation. Believe in promoting Xi Jinping's visit, the two sides will promote 

pragmatic cooperation in various fields for more tangible results, for the benefit of the people of the two countries"

Previously, < Economic Information Daily > once introduced" Swiss made ": the Swiss watch industry relies on the 

success of the brand and the scientific research, design, skills training and customer service service of the huge capital 

investment. In the structure, follow the history of Swiss professional division of the transverse pattern, suppliers and 

subcontractors to provide spare parts to watch taking, watchmaker assembly and sales of finished products. According 

to the organization's watches variety production structure. Compared with its competitors, the Swiss watch industry can 

provide consumers with a real full range of products, to fully automatic mechanical watches from manual winding, from 

analog to digital display quartz watch, precious metal material from diamond, stainless steel, wood. Plastic to high-tech 

ceramics, styles from modern to classical, from sports to fashion, variety from the alarm clock, clock, small clocks to 

watch, can meet all kinds of consumers a full range of needs. And the world level Known from the largely stable quality 

and reliable performance, a representative carpenter won the honor with wisdom and sweat. Use of the Swiss watch 

industry brand logo and the origin of great importance, makes the brand effect and "Swiss made" appeal to each other, 

to provide the best quality assurance for consumers.

Innovative media have reported this Swiss made artisan spirit upgrade: Switzerland known as "brand China" reputation, 

whether chocolate, cheese or watch, saber, "Switzerland" has become synonymous with high quality, quality of 

excellence and innovation for the Swiss diligently achievement ". The reporter had a gilded signboard" heard a lot of 

Swiss enterprises "brand story": on the quality of cheese brand in Gruyeres has been strict in demands, a 900 year 

tradition, each cow must ensure the quality of grassland 1 hectares to 1.5 hectares, heavy snow days to at least every 

three days out of the shed a breath of fresh air; adhere to the "specialization feature" line, 70s the last century in the 

face of quartz watches and electronic forms of price competition, the Swiss watch industry contrarian breakthrough, 

hold the irreplaceable position in the industry; rely on Seiko secret agents, the Swiss Army knife due to light, delicate A 

variety of durable and functional and world-renowned, an ordinary tool manufacturing process is also more than 200.

In addition to the strong artisan spirit, successful gene innovation is the "Swiss made". The key of innovation lies in the 

talent, the Swiss unique talents training mechanism "incubator" came to a generation of skilled craftsmen, support

bidirectional convection of knowledge and innovation. The last century at the beginning of 90s, the Swiss made a 

successful reform of higher senior education, Career Technical College the more than and 60 region into 7 according to

the application of science and Technology University, the famous Ecole Hoteliere De Lausanne is one of them.

Combining these university colleges and professional settings and the local economic and social development, with a

significant emphasis on the application of occupation guidance, research and development. At present, the new 

University occupies more and more important the position in the Swiss higher education system, provides a large 

number of high-end technical skills talents for the development of the industry, has become an important force in the 

Swiss national innovation system. In January 2017 Xi Jinping's visit to Switzerland clearly put forward "the two countries

will promote the establishment of the high level of innovation platform, innovation of East West dialogue in the field of 

industrial cooperation, can be expected to stay.