Hohhot's industrial projects will focus on six major industrial clusters in 2025, with 492 key projects and a total investment of 96.9 billion yuan ($13.35 billion), accounting for 66 percent of all industrial project investments. These six clusters will drive high-quality development, supporting the city's industrial chains' high-end, intelligent, and green transformation.

The green livestock and agricultural product processing cluster will implement 111 key projects, with an annual planned investment of 9 billion yuan. Key projects include Yili Milk Powder Phase III, Mengniu Yashily Milk Powder, and Youran Dairy Headquarters. Efforts are being made to advance the goal of becoming the "World Dairy Capital".

The new materials industry cluster will implement 79 key projects, with an annual planned investment of 20.2 billion yuan. Efforts will be made to commission projects such as the Saisheng new materials industrial park's silicon-based materials chain, the Xuyang 3.6-million-metric-ton coking integrated utilization project, and the CSSC special gas high-purity electronic gas phase II.

The new energy industry cluster plans 107 key projects, with an annual investment of 24.6 billion yuan. It will focus on advancing the green, clean, and low-carbon transformation of energy production and consumption, accelerating the development of a new energy-dominated supply system, and establishing a modern power system centered on renewable energy.

The biopharmaceutical industry cluster plans 39 projects, with an annual investment of 2.8 billion yuan, to advance the development of the synthetic biology industry.

The next-generation information technology industry cluster will implement 75 key projects, with an annual investment of 24.9 billion yuan, focusing on the high-quality development of green computing power and the artificial intelligence industry. It will continuously enhance Horinger New Area as a key hub for green computing power and related equipment manufacturing. It will also build an eco-friendly, intelligent, and innovative next-generation information technology industry ecosystem.

The modern equipment manufacturing industry cluster plans 81 key projects, with an annual investment of 15.3 billion yuan, to develop smart manufacturing. Efforts will advance the wind power equipment industry chain, photovoltaic equipment manufacturing, hydrogen energy equipment manufacturing, energy storage, and new energy vehicles. The region also aims to establish an autonomous region-level low-altitude economy demonstration zone and develop a modern equipment manufacturing industry system.