The fuel bioethanol industry is one of the strategic emerging industries that China focuses on cultivating and developing. Against the background of the country’s deep integration of industrialization and informatization, intelligent and safety production, which can be realized relying on China’s advantages in the Industrial Internet and 5G technology and supported by new technologies such as big data, digital twins, and blockchain, can promote the high-quality development of the fuel bioethanol industry in China. This paper summarizes and analyzes the status and problems of the fuel bioethanol industry, and proposes the general idea for future modes in intelligent production, safety production, and industrial management of the fuel bioethanol industry. The development of the fuel bioethanol industry should be guided at the national strategic level and requires cooperation among the state, local governments, and enterprises, thus to promote the characteristic, joint, and intelligent development of bioethanol industrial bases. The cooperation between industry, universities, and research institutions should be strengthened to innovate production modes and technologies and to promote international competitiveness. Furthermore, key technologies should be developed to realize the production of fuel bioethanol using cellulose-based biomass as the raw material, thereby providing strategic reserves for ensuring national food security.

The status of strategic emerging industries in China’s modern industrial system and their contribution to high-quality economic development are becoming increasingly significant. In face of complex domestic and international environments and the situation that China is about to enter the 14th Five-Year Plan period, it is urgently necessary to make macro thinking of China’s strategic emerging industries and study their strategic positioning. The paper carefully analyzes the development situation of emerging industries in developed countries; examines the achievements, challenges, and problems of emerging industries in China; demonstrates the urgent needs and importance of accelerating the development of relevant industries in China; and outlines a general idea about the development in China. China should regard the cultivation and development of strategic emerging industries as an important pillar in the national modern industrial system; ensure the identification, classification, and strategic deployment of the weaknesses in technologies in the industries; and scientifically plan the regional layout of strategic emerging industries, thus to cultivate industrial clusters at the national level. Conclusively the paper suggests that China should include strategic emerging industries in the national 14th Five-Year Plan; issue a special plan for their development; and explore a national integrated system and a talent cultivation and sharing mechanism.

As one of the strategic emerging industries identified in the 13th Five-Year Plan of China, digital creative industry lives in the digital and networked era; it focuses on culture, content, and copyright, and drives the development of surrounding industries through integration and penetration. The key to developing the digital creative industry is digital creative technology and creative design, where, however, China has weaknesses and does not have a clear development path. In this paper, by analyzing industry data, we systematically describe the current development status of digital creative technology in China, including enabling technology, application technology, and end-user device technology, and summarize the problems and weaknesses of China in ultra-high definition (UHD) video, 3D audio, virtual/augmented reality, and software for digital content generation and creative design. Our investigation suggests that it will promote the development of China’s digital creative technology by: (1) establishing national science and technology key projects and national engineering research centers on digital creative technology, (2) improving the quality of talents on digital creative technology, and (3) actively participating international cooperation and increasing the influence of Chinese culture.