On December 29th, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) officially released the "Guiding Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment (2024 Edition)." The catalogue consists of three categories: encouragement, restriction, and elimination. The encouragement category primarily focuses on technologies, equipment, and products that play an important role in promoting economic and social development, with a focus on fundamental, strategic, and forward-looking key areas.

Within the encouragement category, several industries involve bio-manufacturing and bio-based materials. Due to space limitations, this article only excerpts relevant content related to bio-manufacturing from the encouragement category. The complete document can be found in the "Guiding Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment (2024 Edition).pdf."

I. Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry, and Fisheries

7. Deep processing of agricultural and forestry products: development and application of technologies for wood, bamboo, and grass (including straw and reeds) artificial board and composite materials; development, production, and application of "substitute plastic with bamboo" products; construction of forest bases for chemical raw materials; deep processing of forest chemical products; environmentally friendly processing, recycling and utilization of wood and bamboo structural buildings and wood (bamboo) materials, and energy technology development and application…

17. Comprehensive utilization of renewable resources: comprehensive utilization of crop straw (construction of straw collection, storage and transportation system, utilization of straw as fertilizer, utilization of straw as feed, utilization of straw as energy, utilization of straw as base material, utilization of straw as raw material, etc.), rural renewable resources Comprehensive utilization development projects (biogas projects, bio-natural gas projects, comprehensive utilization of renewable resources, biogas power generation, biomass energy clean heating, straw gasification clean energy utilization projects, waste bacteria stick utilization, solar energy utilization).

IV. Electric Power

1. New power system technologies and equipment: ±800 kV and above DC transmission and transformation, 1000 kV and above AC transmission and transformation, promotion and application of distributed new energy grid connection, distributed smart grid (including microgrid) technologies, various new energy storage technologies and applications such as electrochemical energy storage, compressed air energy storage, gravitational energy storage, flywheel energy storage, hydrogen (ammonia) energy storage, and thermal energy storage, long-term energy storage technology, low-temperature water recovery measures in hydropower, fish passage measures, waste wind gas power generation technology and development and utilization, complete sets of equipment for waste incineration power generation, biomass cogeneration.

6. Low-carbon and energy-saving transformation of thermal power generation: carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology for coal-fired power generation units...

V. New Energy

3. Biomass energy generation technology and application: development and application of non-grain biomass fuel production technologies such as biomass cellulose ethanol, biofuels (diesel, gasoline, aviation kerosene), development and equipment manufacturing of biomass direct combustion, gasification power generation, and cogeneration technologies... efficient storage and transportation technology and equipment research and application for sustainable aviation fuel raw materials, sustainable aviation fuel production and application.

5. Power generation complementary technologies and applications: development and application of hydrogen energy, wind power, and photovoltaic power generation complementary system technologies, development and application of complementary technologies for traditional energy and new energy power generation, electrolysis of water for hydrogen production, and catalytic synthesis of green methanol from carbon dioxide.

XI. Petrochemical Industry

11. Bio-based materials: development and production of polymer materials, reagents, chips, interferons, sensors, and cellulose biochemical products using non-grain biomass as raw materials.

12. Green and efficient technologies: development and application of new technologies for efficient utilization of carbon dioxide (including carbon dioxide-methane reforming, carbon dioxide hydrogenation for chemical production, production of polycarbonates and biodegradable plastics, etc.), clean utilization technologies such as renewable energy hydrogen production, by-product hydrogen substitution for coal hydrogen production, etc.

XII. Building Materials

5. Fiber-reinforced composite materials and their efficient molding preparation processes and equipment for aerospace, environmental protection, marine engineering, electrical and electronic, transportation, energy, construction, Internet of Things, agriculture, and other fields; continuous winding molded composite pipes; manufacturing technology and equipment for biodegradable composite materials; technology and equipment for recycling resin-based composite waste; key technologies for high-performance secondary load-bearing composite structural components of large aircraft, development and application of deep-sea composite pressure cabin segments, preparation and application of large-scale complex structure three-dimensional woven composite prefabricated bodies for aircraft engine blades.

XIII. Medicine

4. Innovative development of high-end medical devices: high-end implantable intervention products, high-end surgical equipment and consumables such as surgical robots, development and application of biomaterials, additive manufacturing technology.

XVI. Automobiles

2. Application of lightweight materials: high-strength aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, powder metallurgy, high-strength composite plastics, composite fibers, and bio-based composite materials; application of advanced forming technologies: 3D printing forming, expanded application of laser welding plates... Flexible rolling forming, integrated die-casting forming, advanced connection technologies for dissimilar materials.

XIX. Light Industry

2. Development, production, and application of biodegradable plastics and their series of products, agricultural plastic water-saving equipment, development and production of long-life (three years and above) functional agricultural films, fully biodegradable seedling bowls, trays, and related agricultural packaging materials.

XX. Textiles

2. Development and production of biodegradable fiber materials (such as polybutylene succinate (PBS), polybutylene adipate-co-terephthalate (PBAT), polycaprolactone (PCL), polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), polylactic acid fibers (PLA), etc.), lyocell short fibers (over 50,000 tons per single line) and lyocell filament fibers, bio-based fiber materials (regenerated cellulose fibers from new renewable resources such as bamboo, hemp, seaweed fibers, chitosan fibers, animal and plant protein fibers, bio-based polyamides, bio-based polyesters, etc.).

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