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

摘要： 讨论了阅读国外有关政策方面的文献或书籍时应有的态度，例如《欧洲工业的未来——欧洲制造业2030》（简称《欧制2030》），需将研究对象看成是一个物理-心理-社会系统（PPSS），而不是现在比较时兴的一个信息-物理系统（CPS）。《欧制2030》谈到了欧洲制造业的愿景，但它涉及的不是制造业整体，而是寻求因产品的生产转移到不发达国家而产生的失业和收支不平衡问题的解决方案。中国制造业不是同样的问题，中国制造业从新中国成立开始，经历了两次大规模的转型发展，现在正面临第3次转型。中国制造业的根本问题是设计竞争力不够，而设计竞争力的基础是知识。面对数字化时代大发展，欧洲在对制造业的知识供给方面有丰富的经验，而中国却始终未能将知识供给和制造业的设计竞争力紧密联系起来。分析了知识供给和知识高效运用在数字化时代可能的发展模式，这是中国制造业弯道超车的机会。

关键词: 欧洲制造业, 设计竞争, 知识供给, 中国制造业