Original headline: “Three Yunnan projects selected for the national-level major application-scenario program! How will they transform industry, business and employment?”
On October 20, the press conference for Yunnan’s first batch of national landmark major application-scenario projects was held at Haigeng Hall in Yunnan, where relevant officials introduced the situation and answered reporters’ questions.
On October 20, the NDRC held a press conference to introduce the first batch of 136 landmark major application-scenario projects. Three scenario projects submitted by Yunnan were selected: coffee whole-industry-chain innovation integration; R&D and clinical translation of medical-grade xenotransplantation donor pigs; and green-energy international standards and certification mechanisms.
The three landmark major application-scenario projects Yunnan was selected for
Since March 2026, drawing on resource endowments, industrial foundations and comparative advantages, the Provincial Development and Reform Commission (DRC) organized provincial departments and universities, and collaborated across regions with Jiangsu and Shanghai, submitting 13 scenario projects in total, of which 3 were finally selected.
First, the coffee whole-industry-chain innovation integration application scenario. Implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech during his inspection of Yunnan, it incorporates the plateau-characteristic agriculture scenario into the national opening-up agenda, building a cross-regional synergy of “Yunnan planting & primary processing + Kunshan deep processing & trade,” and forging coffee into a “trump card” of plateau-characteristic agriculture. Led by Yunnan and jointly carried out with Kunshan, Jiangsu, it focuses on problems such as the fragmented layout of coffee-industry segments and low added value, directly addressing two national-level industrial needs — autonomous and controllable seed sources, and leapfrogging in the global value chain — and exports Chinese technology and Chinese standards to the world, reshaping the global coffee industry value chain.
Second, the R&D and clinical translation application scenario for medical-grade xenotransplantation donor pigs. Targeting the severe global imbalance between organ supply and demand and the worldwide challenge of immune rejection in xenotransplantation, it centers on the autonomous gene-editing donor-pig technology of Yunnan Agricultural University, bridging the full translation chain from basic research and technology development to human clinical use, and systematically overcoming key technologies such as immune rejection. Led by Yunnan and jointly carried out with Shanghai, it innovates a “Yunnan breeding + multi-provinces/municipalities clinical” Yunnan–Shanghai collaboration mechanism, linking top domestic transplant hospitals such as Shanghai Ruijin, and exporting China’s technical solutions for xenotransplantation — providing key support for the “Healthy China” initiative and self-reliance in biotechnology.
Third, the application scenario for advancing green-energy international standards and certification mechanisms. Targeting rising international carbon barriers, the long-standing lack of international recognition for the value of domestic green electricity, and carbon barriers facing high-energy-export enterprises, it is carried out by the Provincial DRC together with the Global Energy Interconnection Organization (GEIO) and China Southern Power Grid. Relying on Yunnan’s leading national share of installed green-power capacity and GEIO’s core strength in leading the development of green-electricity consumption standards, and leveraging the access policy of the Guangdong–Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, it pilots with high-energy-export enterprises such as electrolytic aluminum, silicon photovoltaics and new-energy batteries, advancing Yunnan’s pioneering trials of international certification of green-power consumption, promoting the alignment of certification results with international rules such as the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), and building a full-chain closed loop of “precise green-power traceability — provincial carbon-emission-factor accounting — international mutual-recognition certification.” This forms a “Yunnan model” for clean-energy value transformation, continuously enhancing China’s international voice in the green-power field and supporting the green going-global of manufacturing.
What are landmark major application-scenario projects?
Scenario cultivation and opening-up is a new type of policy instrument, and moreover a key innovation resource. Landmark major application-scenario projects are major projects selected by the state to drive the large-scale deployment of new technologies and products, with leading and driving effects. Compared with traditional projects, they are cross-industry, cross-domain and even whole-industry-chain in nature, highly systematic and complex, with the potential to drive overarching systemic change and lead the application and systemic upgrading of key industries. Three keywords are central:
First, “comprehensive.” It is mainly reflected in three “crosses”: cross-department, which means coordinating resources and powers scattered across different departments; cross-region, which means connecting the application conditions, verification environments and market space of different regions in parallel; and cross-domain, which means breaking down barriers between primary, secondary and tertiary industries so that technology, data and services flow smoothly across a wider scope.
Second, “systemic.” Landmark major application-scenario projects pursue not an efficiency gain at a single link, but an overall leap of the industrial, technological, institutional and service systems.
Third, “traction.” Such projects act like a “dragon head” in industrial development, pulling technology validation, standards-setting, institutional supply and industrial clustering forward together. Yunnan’s selected coffee whole-industry-chain innovation integration scenario is a typical example: covering the four segments of seed, planting, processing and market, it does not validate a single technology at one “point,” but systematically reshapes the industry chain.
The profound significance of major scenario construction for Yunnan
The three scenario projects differ in field, but taken together they all use projects as carriers to drive industry-chain development and use application to pull technology iteration, tightly integrating scenario innovation with Yunnan’s advantageous resources. On the basis of strengthening scenario-project cultivation, they use major scenarios to coordinate reforms in access, scenarios and factors, promoting an innovation mechanism of “demand traction — technological breakthrough — scenario validation — industrial application.” This aggregates innovation resources, reshapes industry, value and supply chains through validating new technologies, products and business forms, and turns scenarios into industry, business and employment.
First, driving innovation through scenarios. Relying on comprehensive major application scenarios for early trials, it aggregates innovation resources, and through real technology applications, users and data draws more and more enterprises in, letting new technologies and products be tested in real scenarios, achieving revolutionary technological breakthroughs and accelerating the development of emerging industries — helping old trees sprout new buds, new saplings grow into big trees, and fine seeds seize the initiative.
Second, planning industry through scenarios. Scenario construction is committed to breaking the path dependence of regional economic development on long-accumulated technology, talent and capital, releasing domestic-demand potential through scenario advantages, pulling new supply with new demand, letting enterprises see the market clearly and feel the demand precisely, and through new scenarios bringing new products and services, better stimulating and satisfying people’s diversified and differentiated consumption needs — so that supply and demand meet each other halfway in scenarios, making the economic cycle smoother and market vitality “surge into a tide.”
Third, benefiting people’s livelihoods through scenarios. Scenario construction is people-centered, and its results must ultimately land on the employment, income and quality of life of ordinary people. In terms of employment, the application of new technologies spawns new professions and posts such as drone operators, intelligent maintenance staff and data annotators, effectively promoting full employment. In terms of income, each step a industry chain moves toward the high end brings an extra share of income to the farmers, workers and entrepreneurs attached to it. In terms of quality of life, new scenarios such as the silver economy and elderly-care living will let the elderly not only be cared for in old age, but also enjoy and share it.
Highlights of the Q&A
Reporter: How will Yunnan leverage its traction role in implementing the national landmark major application-scenario projects and further stimulate economic-development vitality?
Yunnan Provincial Development and Reform Commission:
Driving the implementation of landmark scenarios. Scenario work is highly systematic, holistic and collaborative, requiring continuous strengthening of cross-domain, cross-level and cross-link coordination. The Provincial DRC will work with provincial departments to form a dedicated task force for each of the three selected national landmark scenarios, study each scenario’s construction plan, define specific objectives and supporting projects, attract leading and specialized enterprises to deploy in Yunnan, accelerate the conversion of mature scenarios into real investment projects, drive investment and industrial clustering, achieve “one project, one task force, follow-through to the end,” and form a province-wide template.
Advancing scenario construction across the whole region. Scenario work is a long-term and region-wide effort, not limited to the three landmark scenarios. The Provincial DRC has worked with the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision Commission and the Provincial Investment Promotion Bureau to form an annual key-work arrangement, ensuring landmark activities every month. Recently, leveraging the opportunity of jointly publicizing landmark major application scenarios with the state, it will further broaden publicity channels and sustain the heat and exposure of scenario work.
Building the Yunnan scenario brand. Scenario work requires a mutually reinforcing and supportive structure. Provincial industry authorities will formulate standardized norms for scenario solicitation, demand description, technical parameters and operating mechanisms in their fields, and tap their scenario capabilities and needs. Prefectures (cities) will give full play to regional resource endowments and comparative advantages, and in line with the requirement of “one scenario per county, one brand per industry,” plan a batch of scenario projects according to local conditions.
Accelerating effective investment. Scenario work is an important policy instrument for converting technological potential energy into investment kinetic energy. From the practice of pioneering provinces, scenario cultivation and opening-up are accelerating from the “demand solicitation, opportunity release” technology-showcase stage into the “project generation, investment conversion, scale promotion” investment-formation stage, becoming a key breakthrough for expanding effective investment. The Provincial DRC will work with provincial departments and prefectures to move quickly, seize opportunities, tightly align the key fields of scenario construction with national deployments such as “two major” and “two new” and the “six networks,” deeply tap investment opportunities, and form a “resource — scenario — investment” conversion chain. (Source: Yunnan Online News Release Hall, and the “Yunnan Provincial People’s Government” WeChat official account)
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