The reporter learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology yesterday that the rail transit equipment was formally selected as the “Guidance Catalog for Independent Innovation of Major Technical Equipment”. This means that under the background of “stability for progress”, the rail transit industry will receive strong support from the competent authorities. The catalog is jointly developed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.

According to the introduction, the products listed in this Catalogue may be preferentially included in the government's related science and technology and product development plans, give priority to industrialized financing support, and enjoy the country's policy of encouraging the use of the first (set); after successful product development, If it is identified as a national independent innovation product, it shall be preferentially incorporated into the Catalogue of Independent Innovation Products for Government Procurement and enjoy the support of government procurement policies.

Prior to this, due to the impact of the “7.23” EMU accident, the railway investment dropped suddenly. According to the Ministry of Railways, as of the end of October 2011, the country’s railways had completed investment in fixed assets of 33.56 billion yuan, and for the third consecutive month, the area of ​​fixed assets investment was 40 billion yuan, a larger decrease from the 87.75 billion yuan in the same period of last year.

Professor Jin Jinwen of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Social Sciences stated that the rail transit industry is both a public infrastructure and a high-tech project. It can not only greatly increase the flow of people between cities and improve logistics efficiency, but also significantly increase the radiation diffusion effect of central cities and promote trade, tourism and tourism. The development of modern service industries, and also has a strong leading role in the domestic high-tech equipment manufacturing industry, can play an important role in the process of macroeconomic "stability and progress."