The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently proposed to formulate an action plan for future industrial development, proactively layout future industries, enrich and improve application scenarios, cultivate industrial ecology, and seize the high ground of future competition. This helps to strengthen policy guidance for future industrial development and build new advantages for future development. The future industry is the main battlefield of new productive forces. Overall, the future industry is characterized by low maturity but great potential for development, high dependence on basic research and original innovation, and the formation of disruptive technologies, new products, and new formats that lead major changes. The future industry represents the development direction of future technology and industry. It is an industry with high technological content, sufficient green development, strong industry correlation, and large market space. It is also an industry that deeply integrates innovative technology with multiple fields. The forward-looking, leading, breakthrough, and integrated characteristics of future industries are in line with the connotation and essence of new quality productivity. Prospective layout of future industries is a strategic choice to seize the opportunities of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. Throughout the previous industrial revolutions, emerging industries have been the key to building new global competitive advantages. Currently, the future industry has become a new track for major powers to compete in. The United States continues to update its list of key and emerging technologies, proposing strong support for basic and applied research in fields such as industry and aerospace technology in the future; The EU has released key enabling technologies for future industry, including high-performance computing, quantum technology, nanotechnology, etc; Japan has also announced strong efforts to promote the development of quantum technology and artificial intelligence. Prospective layout of future industries is an important lever for China to keep pace with global innovation and even achieve catch-up. It is also an urgent need for high-quality economic development, and is conducive to accelerating industrial transformation and upgrading, cultivating new economic growth points. Developing future industries requires a long-term perspective. The future industry is a development trend, still in its infancy or incubation stage, with more cutting-edge technological breakthroughs, greater uncertainty in industrial growth, and longer cultivation cycles. This requires strengthening top-level design and using national strategies and policies to drive development. For example, the United States has established multiple investment systems to promote future industrial development, Germany is leading the direction of future industrial development with an innovation policy system, and France is improving the multi-level technology decision-making consultation and collaborative work mechanism to serve future industrial development. China should also formulate and implement future industrial development action plans and other policies as soon as possible, targeting fields such as artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, metaverse, 6G, quantum information, and biological manufacturing, accelerating the research and application of technology and materials, coordinating the development of standards, and promoting the formation of new productive forces. Developing future industries also requires a focus on the present. The layout of future industries cannot be rushed. Each region should adapt to local conditions and develop in a staggered manner, combined with its unique advantages and resource endowments, actively explore in application scenario construction, talent cultivation, and industry finance cooperation, and cultivate a number of future industrial highlands. Especially, it is necessary to choose the sub sectors of future industries, actively integrate into the national and even global future industrial system, and form core competitiveness. It should be noted that the development of future industries cannot apply previous policies targeting mature industries. For example, excessive use of subsidies and stimulus policies can easily lead to blind investment and redundant construction, resulting in new resource waste. To develop future industries, it is even more important to strengthen ecological construction. Low maturity and weak foundation of future industries