To accelerate the transformation of economic growth pattern, efforts should be centered on adjustment and optimization of industrial structure with the key being upgrading of products. Numerical control is an effective approach to the innovation of mechanical products. The technique route is to replace power unit and gear of traditional machinery with servo motor driving system and to control mechanical movement and working process with CNC system, thus fundamentally improving product function and performance, and enhancing product market competitiveness. The “NC Generation” mechanical product innovation project, involving NC technology applications and innovation of mechanical products, is one that is driven by huge demands from development of machinery industry and boosted by mature NC technology. The execution of this project should fully harness the nation's superiority in system by carrying organized innovation. Following an integrated, collaborate innovation technology route with “enterprise as the dominant force, market as the guidance, and featured by combination of governments, producers, schools, research institutes and users”, the project should be planned comprehensively, implemented step by step and with focuses, and advanced in an all-around way. The objective is to popularize and apply NC technology, to realize the overall innovation and upgrading of China's mechanical products in ten years and ultimately to contribute to China shifting from a giant manufacturing force to a powerful nation.

加快转变经济发展方式,中心是产业结构的调整优化,关键是产品的升级换代。数控化是创新机械产品的有效途径,其技术路线是用伺服电机驱动系统取代传统机械中的动力与传动装置,并用计算机数控系统对机械运动与工作过程进行控制,从根本上提高产品功能和性能,提高产品市场竞争力。《“数控一代”机械产品创新工程》既是数控技术应用工程,更是机械产品创新工程;既有机械工业发展强大需求的推动,又有成熟数控技术的支撑;要充分发挥我国的制度优越性,总体规划、分步实施、重点突破、全面推进,实行有组织的创新;采取“企业为主体、市场为导向、政产学研用相结合”的协同创新和集成创新技术路线;目标是推广和应用数控技术,在10年内实现各行各业各类各种机械产品的全面创新升级换代,为我国从“制造大国”到“制造强国”的跨越式发展建功立业。