On Strategic Pillar Industries： Evidence from Large Aircraft Industry

KOU Zong-lai; ZHOU Zi-yao

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Journal of Beijing Jiaotong University（Social Sciences Edition） ›› 2025, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (4) : 39-50.

Applied Economics Studies

On Strategic Pillar Industries： Evidence from Large Aircraft Industry

KOU Zong-lai^1,2, ZHOU Zi-yao¹

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Strategic emerging industries play a crucial role in driving economic transformation and upgrading and leading social development. At present， China’s strategic emerging industries face a dual challenge： on the one hand， they face the “chokepoint” dilemma where core technologies are subject to external constraints； on the other hand， they confront development bottlenecks of limited industrial scale and insufficient market competitiveness， which， to a certain extent， have constrained their ability to serve national strategic needs. Against this backdrop， this paper takes the domestic large aircraft industry as a representative case and systematically analyzes its industrial characteristics and developmental bottlenecks， with the aim of revealing the inherent laws governing the scale expansion and quality upgrading of strategic emerging industries. The study finds that promote the scaled development of the industry is the fundamental pathway to overcoming these dual challenges. To this end， this paper innovatively proposes the theoretical concept of “strategic pillar industries”. Furthermore， it argues that， in practice， the joint functioning of an efficient market and an effective government is essential for nurturing and upgrading strategic emerging industries into strategic pillar industries， thereby fully unleashing their strategic value. The paper argues that cultivating and expanding strategic pillar industries is not only a solution to overcoming technological bottlenecks and fostering new quality productive forces， but also an inevitable path to breaking through the development constraints of the national economy.

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strategic emerging industries / strategic pillar industries / large aircraft industry / scaled development / effective government / efficient market

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KOU Zong-lai, ZHOU Zi-yao. On Strategic Pillar Industries： Evidence from Large Aircraft Industry[J]. Journal of Beijing Jiaotong University（Social Sciences Edition）. 2025, 24(4): 39-50

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