Jiangxi plans to modernize its industries

Jiangxi province will accelerate efforts to build a modern industrial system during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30), relying on its resource endowment, manufacturing base and ecological strengths to support high-quality development, according to provincial officials.

"We will unswervingly make the building of a modern industrial system with Jiangxi's characteristics and strengths a major strategic task for the 15th Five-Year Plan period," Governor Ye Jianchun said. "Through stronger, better and more advanced industries, we will provide solid support for Jiangxi's high-quality development and modernization."

By the end of the period, Jiangxi aims to add 1 trillion yuan ($146 billion) to its GDP, reaching 4.6 trillion yuan, and lift per capita GDP to more than $14,000, officials said. In 2025, the province's GDP reached 3.6 trillion yuan, up 5.2 percent year-on-year.

Jiangxi hosts 38 of China's 41 major industrial categories and has already established two trillion-yuan industrial clusters.

The electronic information industry generated 1.24 trillion yuan in revenue in 2025, ranking fourth nationwide, while the nonferrous metals sector reached 1.1 trillion yuan, ranking first in the country.

A central pillar of the strategy is the "1269" action plan, which targets 12 key manufacturing chains and six advanced manufacturing clusters, including electronic information, copper-based new materials, lithium batteries, photovoltaic energy and aviation.

Over the past two years, the province has allocated 3 billion yuan to support digital transformation in manufacturing, with more than 15,000 companies upgrading operations. In Chongyi county in Ganzhou, Zhangyuan Tungsten Co has deployed intelligent algorithms to replace manual quality inspections, raising the qualification rate of core products by 1.1 percentage points and improving batch inspection efficiency 75-fold.

Officials said science and technology will play a decisive role in industrial upgrading.

"To develop new quality productive forces according to local conditions, science and technology must take the lead," said Song Dexiong, head of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology.

Emerging sectors are already taking shape, including brain-computer interfaces. In Nanchang, NeuroXess began building a "super factory" in January in the Ganjiang New Area to support mass production of implantable brain-computer interface devices. The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University has also launched clinical research involving BCI technology.

Alongside industrial upgrading, officials emphasized Jiangxi's green development strategy. Known for its mountains, rivers and wetlands, the province has long treated ecology as a core asset.

"Green ecology has become Jiangxi's greatest wealth, greatest advantage, and strongest brand," said Ren Zhufeng, executive vice-governor of Jiangxi. He said the province will continue building itself into a national ecological civilization pilot zone, strengthen river basin protection and convert ecological assets into development gains.

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