BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- China's top economic planner National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) released a draft catalogue of guided industries to pool public opinions during April 8 and May 7, reported the Xinhua-run Economic Information Daily Tuesday.
The Chinese regulator concentrates in the draft catalogue on developing the real economy and attaches importance to integrated development of industries, said the newspaper citing industry insiders.
Wu Yaping, a researcher with Investment Research Institute of NDRC said the draft catalogue is an important measure to guide social investment and features this time integrated development of industries including primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas, and manufacturing with modern service industries.
According to Wu, the adjusted catalogue draft is expected to boost investment in relevant areas such as integrated development of industries in rural areas, the emerging infrastructure construction, and emerging sectors in particular information-driven, intelligent and advanced manufacturing.
The draft catalogue divides the industries for guidance into three types, encouraged ones, restricted ones and ones to be eliminated.
Compared with the version issued in 2013, leisure agriculture and quality rural tourism projects, digital village construction and digital information access for rural household programs, the Internet plus, and projects for farm produce to cities from rural areas are added into the encouraged type for agriculture and forestry.
For encouraged information industry, such fields as big data, cloud computing, IT service, block chain information services that are allowed by the country, industrial Internet networks and platforms, and research and manufacturing of new mechanism-based such as quantum and brain-like computer systems are included in the draft catalogue. (Edited by Duan Jing, duanjing@xinhua.org)