China's first homegrown large jetliner C919 takes off for a long-distance test flight from the Sanya Phoenix International Airport in Sanya City, south China's Hainan Province. [Photo/VCG]

China's pace of pushing its "new industrialization" strategy has continued to significantly accelerate in the past decade, which further sharpened the country's competitive edge with vast improvements in the manufacturing and digital sectors, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on March 1, 2023.