{"id":4736,"date":"2026-07-25T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/4736\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:19:11","slug":"can-chinas-aerospace-industry-overcome-execution-gap-in-modernisation-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/4736\/","title":{"rendered":"Can China\u2019s aerospace industry overcome \u2018execution gap\u2019 in modernisation goals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese defence suppliers are hitting a wall when it comes to translating national strategic goals into effective enterprise-level actions, according to an analysis by industry insiders.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in May by the academic journal Defence Industry Conversion in China, identified four major challenges that might undermine the implementation of Beijing\u2019s 2026-2030 plan for the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/china-military?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">national defence industry.<\/a><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Authors Gao Xufeng and Wu Ke are strategic planning researchers from the Chengdu-based company Sichuan Tianao Aerospace Information Technology, a subsidiary of the state-owned China Electronics Technology Group Corporation and the country\u2019s leading exporter of aerospace and drone communication equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Their analysis focused on aerospace equipment enterprises, highlighting what they described as systemic bottlenecks during the critical transition period of the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3330774\/chinas-next-5-year-plan-aims-narrow-nuclear-gap-us-and-russia-analysts-say?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">15th five-year plan,<\/a> which sets the goal of building the country into a space power by 2030.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The plan identifies the aerospace industry as \u201can emerging pillar industry\u201d, as Beijing anticipates that it will become a key driver of defence and economic development.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The study analysed a single enterprise, identifying shortcomings that included a gap between national policy and corporate implementation, as well as the conflict between rigid planning and fast-evolving market dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese defence suppliers are hitting a wall when it comes to translating national strategic goals into effective enterprise-level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[867,407,2743,2697,14,2363,2741,2740,2742],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-china-electronics-technology-group-corporation","tag-chinese","tag-defence-industry","tag-defence-industry-conversion-in-china","tag-gao-xufeng","tag-sichuan-tianao-aerospace-information-technology","tag-wu-ke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}