The high-end and intelligent development of our country's equipment industry can be summarized as "Three Continues"

This morning, the State Council Information Office held a press conference to introduce the industrial and information technology development in the first quarter of 2026. Relevant officials said that in the equipment industry’s high-end and intelligent development, it can be summarized as “three continuous efforts.” First, innovation capability continues to strengthen. The world’s first invasive brain-machine interface medical device has been approved for listing, filling a global clinical blank; domestically made spot-welding industrial robots have achieved mass application on automobile welding lines for the first time; and the world’s first medium-wire cutting machine tool capable of five-axis linkage has been successfully developed, significantly improving processing efficiency. Second, high-end products continue to increase. Among passenger vehicles priced at 500,000 yuan and above, sales of domestic-brand models rose by 97% year over year and their market share reached 69.5%; the second domestically built large cruise ship, “Aida·Huacheng,” successfully completed its launching; the world’s largest pile-driving vessel, “Tiejian Bridge Pile 1,” completed delivery; and the “Xiangyun” AS700 manned airship has accumulated a total of 42 confirmed orders. Third, the level of intelligentization continues to improve. The equipment industry has built 197 world-class intelligent factories, driving the average product defect rate down by 48.4% and the average production efficiency up by 22.3%. (CCTV News)