BEIJING, Sept. 19 -- China has released a two-year work plan to stabilize growth in the light industry sector, aiming to strengthen its role in supporting steady economic expansion.

The plan for 2025 and 2026 has outlined 15 tasks, focusing on optimizing supply, boosting consumption, maintaining international competitiveness, improving the industrial ecosystem, and strengthening the momentum for high-quality development.

Key measures include applying artificial intelligence to analyze consumer demand, developing new growth drivers in areas such as health, elderly care, childcare, household goods and cultural tourism, advancing AI-enabled product design and manufacturing, and supporting new forms of foreign trade such as cross-border e-commerce.

China is also rolling out a series of stabilization measures targeting 10 key industries, namely, steel, non-ferrous metals, petrochemicals, chemicals, building materials, machinery, automobiles, power equipment, light industry and electronic information manufacturing, which are vital to maintaining stability in the industrial economy and the broader national economy.