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Manufacturing is the foundation of a nation’s economy. It is the primary industry to promote economic and social development. To accelerate and upgrade China’s manufacturing sector from “precision manufacturing” to “high-performance and high-quality manufacturing”, a new breakthrough should be found in terms of achieving a “leap-frog development”. Unlike conventional manufacturing, the fundamental theory of “Manufacturing 3.0” is beyond the scope of conventional theory; rather, it is based on new principles and theories at the atomic and/or closeto- atomic scale. Obtaining a dominant role at the international level is a strategic move for China’s progress.
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Fang, F. Atomic and close-to-atomic scale manufacturing—A trend in manufacturing development. Front. Mech. Eng. 11, 325–327 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11465-016-0402-1
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