Baotou, in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, has achieved progress in industrial upgrades in the first half of 2020, with performance indicators showing improvement, according to Baotou Daily.

Traditional industries in the city continue to develop under the Three-year Action Plan for the Transformation and Upgrading of Traditional Industries in Baotou. The city has also implemented 84 traditional industrial transformation and upgrading projects with a total investment of 19.9 billion yuan ($2.87 billion).

Under the requirements for the pilot construction of a zero-waste city, the preparation of the Development Plan for the Comprehensive Utilization of General Industrial Solid Waste in Baotou (2020-2025) was launched to accelerate the green transformation of relevant industries.

In terms of strategic emerging industries’ development, in the first six months of the year, Baotou implemented 172 strategic emerging industry projects with a total investment of 119.3 billion yuan. The number of projects and the total investment accounted for 67 percent and 85.7 percent of the city's key industrial projects, respectively.

The deepening of enterprise-city integration development has been promoted, with 58 enterprise-local industrial cooperation projects worth 16.2 billion yuan confirmed for 2020. At present, 23 projects have made significant progress.

The city has also focused on the formation of an intelligent manufacturing development system. A series of policy measures – including Implementation Opinions on Accelerating Development of Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation in Baotou – will help build a strategic framework for the standardized, systematic and sustainable development of intelligent manufacturing in Baotou.

An intelligent manufacturing project library is currently under development, to offer detailed information on Baotou's industrial transformation.