A senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official recently admitted that because China’s manufacturing industry was limited by China’s social system, a lack of talents, and other factors, and because key technologies were controlled by “others,” China needs at least 30 years to achieve the goal of becoming a manufacturing powerhouse. The statement was made by Miao Wei, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and former Minister of Industry and Information Technology. He said at a CPPCC meeting on March 7 that in terms of global manufacturing industry, there are four different levels.  The first level is led by the United States because it is the global science and technology innovation center.  The European Union and Japan belong to the second level since they are at the high-end of manufacturing. China and some other emerging countries belong to the third level, which is at the …