As an indicator of a manufacturing powerhouse, advanced manufacturing clusters are playing an important role in cultivating new quality productive forces.

　　Through cooperation and competition among the enterprises in a cluster, technological innovation, industrial upgrading and personnel training can be accelerated.

　　Driving high-quality development

　　With efficient coordination of industrial chains, advanced manufacturing clusters are a microcosm of the high-quality development of China's manufacturing industry.

　　According to the Chinese Academy of Hi-tech Industrial Economy Co., Ltd., the pace of upgrading a number of advanced manufacturing clusters has significantly accelerated, playing a key role in stabilizing the development of the industrial economy, improving the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry, and promoting the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.

　　The clusters' ability to attract talent and finance has been continuously enhanced, the ecology has been improved, and the collaborative innovation ability and efficiency have been further upgraded.

　　Advanced manufacturing clusters flourishing

　　The development of advanced manufacturing clusters is conducive to the formation of scale effects and competitive advantages composed of collaborative innovation, talent agglomeration, cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

　　China now has many such advanced manufacturing clusters. For instance, Shanghai has formed an integrated circuit cluster. More than 1,200 key integrated circuit enterprises, 40 percent of the country's industrial experts, and 50 percent of the domestic industry innovation resources have gathered in Shanghai.

　　A new generation of information and communication cluster has been formed in Shenzhen. As a hub of the global electronic information industry, Shenzhen's output value of the electronic information manufacturing industry in 2022 was 2.48 trillion RMB, accounting for almost 17 percent of the country's total.

　　The agglomeration advantages of advanced manufacturing clusters not only form a virtuous circle of their own development, but also attract a number of foreign enterprises to set up R&D centers in the cluster, gradually forming a high-quality development matrix.

　　One such example is the Volkswagen China Technology Company, which began full operations in Hefei in January 2024, becoming the Volkswagen Group's largest R&D center outside Germany.