Biomanufacturing Highlighted in China's 15th Five-Year Plan as Trillion-Dollar Future Industry Set for Breakout

According to CNR.com,10Month24On [date], the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference in the morning to introduce and interpret the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.

Zheng Shanjie, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that fostering innovation to nurture new growth drivers entails cultivating and strengthening emerging industries and future industries.2024In [year], the value added of China’s “three new” economy accounted forGDPSpecific Gravity Exceeding18%。

The “Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development” proposes to build emerging pillar industries and accelerate the development of strategic emerging industry clusters, including new energy, new materials, aerospace, and the low-altitude economy.It will give rise to multiple markets each valued at trillions of yuan, or even larger.

“The Proposal” also proposesProactively lay out future industries and promote quantum technology,Biomanufacturing, hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied AI, and sixth-generation mobile communications have emerged as new drivers of economic growth; these industries are poised to exert significant momentum in the future10China is set to recreate a high-tech industry within the year.

China holds significant advantages in the field of bio-manufacturing,9Month26Recently, according to a report by CCTV News, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology indicates that China’s bio-manufacturing industry is experiencing strong growth momentum and continues to lead in competitiveness within the global industrial landscape.

Latest statistical data shows,Currently, the total scale of China's bio-manufacturing industry has approached1trillion yuan, with fermentation production capacity accounting for the world's total70%The above has seen the emergence of a number of competitive biomanufacturing industry clusters.

Kang Zhen, Deputy Dean of the Industrial Technology Research Institute at Jiangnan University and a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor appointed by the Ministry of Education, stated to VCBeat that biomanufacturing holds broad application prospects in the fields of biopharmaceuticals, bulk chemicals, bioenergy, and cosmetics. It has the potential to transform the methods and pathways of material production, thereby expanding the boundaries of material manufacturing.

For example, traditional cosmetic ingredients are mainly derived from plants and animals or produced through chemical synthesis. Many of these ingredients have relatively complex molecular structures and numerous chiral groups, posing certain challenges in production. In contrast, biomanufacturing offers significant advantages in overcoming these difficulties.By leveraging technologies such as synthetic biology and artificial intelligence, natural biomolecules from nature can be discovered. On this basis, microbial cell factories can be constructed to achieve precise synthesis of target substances through fermentation. Furthermore, natural molecules can be enhanced via structural modifications to confer new functions or significantly improve their efficacy.

National-level policies have consistently been issued to support the development of the biomanufacturing industry.

China has repeatedly mentioned synthetic biology in the “14th Five-Year Plan for Bioeconomy Development,”Regard it as one of the national strategic scientific and technological forces accelerating the innovative development of the bioeconomy.

2024Year1In [Month], the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and six other departments issued the “Implementation Opinions on Promoting Innovation and Development of Future Industries,” which explicitly called for expanding new scenarios for new-type industrialization, accelerating the promotion of emerging applications such as the industrial metaverse and bio-manufacturing, and driving the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing sector through scenario-based innovation.

2025Year, Government Work Report"Formally proposing bio-manufacturing as a future industry for the first time,"Biomanufacturing has assumed a critically important leading position within China’s industrial sector.

Additionally, in2025Year6In [Month], the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and other departments jointly issued the “Notice on Launching the ‘Open Competition’ Mechanism for Innovation Tasks in High-Performance Bioreactors,” focusing on bioreactor systems, key components and consumables, and industrial operating systems.3Class9Launch the "Open Competition" mechanism for the listed tasks.

In the same month, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments issued the “Notice on Launching the Cultivation of Pilot-Scale Capacity Building Platforms for Biomanufacturing,” explicitly stating that by2027years, striving to cultivate pilot-scale capability development platforms20more than , serving more than enterprises200Home, Incubated Products400more than, providing robust support for the “small-scale validation – pilot scale-up – industrial application” of innovative achievements.

Furthermore, a review shows that various regions across China are accelerating their strategic deployment in the emerging field of biomanufacturing. Since the onset of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Henan, Shandong, Xinjiang, and other regions have20Multiple provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have introduced relevant policies; Beijing, Shenzhen, Changzhou, Wuxi, Hefei, and other cities have established special funds dedicated to biomanufacturing.