关键词: 欧洲制造业, 设计竞争, 知识供给, 中国制造业

Abstract: A right attitude we should have was discussed in reading foreign political documents or books, for example the book titled with towards the re-industrialization of Europe:a concept for manufacturing for 2030（abbr. as EM2030). The attitude is to look the object investigated as a physical-psychological-social system（PPSS) rather than a cyber-physical system（CPS) which is stylish at present. EM2030 talks about a vision of European manufacturing, but it does not include the whole European manufacturing and deal with only problems arisen due to move low-tech manufacturing into underdeveloped countries. The problems are unemployment and trade imbalance. It is not the situation of manufacturing in China. Since the founding of PRC the manufacturing in China has experienced two extensive transformations and is confronted with a third transformation at this moment. The fundamental problem with manufacturing in China is no enough design competitiveness while the foundation of design competitiveness is knowledge. Even so, there is huge space of development in the digital age, Europe has abundant experiences in knowledge supply to manufacturing, while the knowledge supply has not been connected closely to the design competitiveness of manufacturing in China. The possible developing modes of knowledge supply and efficient knowledge utilization were analyzed in the digital age. It might be a chance of overtaking in curve for manufacturing in China.

Key words: European manufacturing, design competition, knowledge supply, manufacturing in China