When presiding over the symposium on promoting the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era, General Secretary of Supreme Leader stressed: "Actively cultivate strategic emerging industries such as new energy, new materials, advanced manufacturing and electronic information, actively cultivate future industries, accelerate the formation of new quality productivity, and enhance new development momentum." Industry is the foundation of development, and it is necessary to build a modern industrial system to accelerate the formation of new productive forces. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a strategic plan for "building a modern industrial system", and the first meeting of the 20th Central Financial and Economic Committee proposed "promoting industrial intelligence, greening and integration, and building a modern industrial system with integrity, advancement and safety". This provides scientific guidance for us to build a modern industrial system.
Seize the opportunity of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation to promote the development of industrial intelligence
The rise and development of industry is closely related to scientific and technological innovation. At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is in the ascendant. Frontier technologies such as general artificial intelligence, life science and new energy are profoundly changing the industrial production function, leading the new direction of industrial development and opening up a new track for industrial development. Only by closely tracking and grasping the changes in the frontier of science and technology can we firmly grasp the initiative of innovation and development in our own hands. At the same time, we should also see that for some time, in order to use their technological advantages to control the value chain of the industrial chain, curb the development of other countries, engage in unilateral sanctions and extreme pressure, interfere with the global industrial division of labor, and build a "small courtyard and high wall" in the high-tech field, which has greatly hindered China’s scientific and technological progress and industrial development. This also shows that only by seizing the opportunity to promote industrial upgrading and constantly improve competitiveness can we improve the resilience and safety level of China’s industrial chain supply chain.
Under this background, actively promoting the development of industrial intelligence will not only help to seize the industrial highland formed by the new round of scientific and technological revolution and push China’s industry to the high end of the global value chain, but also help to enhance the overall strength, quality and efficiency of China’s industry and enhance China’s viability, competitiveness, development and sustainability.
At present, China’s development in the fields of 5G and quantum mechanics is in the forefront of the world, with many advantages such as super-large-scale market, huge team of engineers, complete industrial system and strong supporting capabilities. This provides favorable conditions for us to actively promote the development of industrial intelligence. We should seize the opportunity brought by the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, actively promote the digital transformation of the industry, and strive to seize the strategic commanding heights of the global industrial system intelligence. Promote the construction of digital infrastructure, jointly promote digital industrialization and industrial digital transformation, create a legal and regulatory system and market environment that is compatible with the development of digital economy, and promote the development of new formats of digital economy. Further deepen the reform of the scientific and technological system, strive to make new breakthroughs in original innovation, achieve leap-forward development in important scientific and technological fields, and strengthen industrial base reconstruction and major technical equipment research. Enterprises are the main body of scientific and technological innovation and an important force to promote the development of industrial intelligence. It is necessary to further encourage enterprises to increase investment in research and development and better integrate the industrial system and the innovation system; Provide enterprises with digital transformation public services, strengthen digital skills education and training, improve the digital literacy and skills of the whole people, and train more digital talents for enterprises; Give play to the demonstration role of digital transformation of large enterprises and drive the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises through supply chains and other channels.
Take the road of ecological priority and green development to promote the green development of industry
Green recycling and low-carbon development is the direction of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in today’s era, the most promising development field and the key link to achieve high-quality development. To build a modern industrial system, we must adhere to the concept of green development, seize the opportunity of rapid development of global green economy, green technology and green industry, make good use of green development policy tools, actively and steadily promote peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality on the one hand, and cultivate new competitive advantages in green transformation and development on the other.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has incorporated peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality into the overall economic and social development, and completed the "1+N" policy system of peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality. Enterprises in various industries have implemented policies and measures around the goal of peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality, strengthened pragmatic actions, and accelerated the transformation of China’s industrial development to green and low carbon. Grasping the general trend of global green development and promoting the green development of China’s industries are the inherent requirements for promoting high-quality development, which is conducive to actively and steadily promoting carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions, actively responding to climate change and protecting the ecological environment, and also conducive to cultivating new kinetic energy in green transformation. We must unswervingly follow the path of ecological priority and green development, accelerate the development of green low-carbon industries, vigorously develop green finance, make full use of market-oriented and fiscal measures such as carbon trading, renewable energy green power certificate (green certificate) and environmental protection tax, accelerate the popularization and application of advanced green technologies, and vigorously develop green supply chain; At the same time, we will enhance the synergy of industrial policies, effectively mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties, promote the green development of industries from policies, factors, technologies, markets and other aspects, and strive to cultivate new industrial competitive advantages.
Adapt to the new trend of industrial development and promote the development of industrial integration
At present, industrial development and its driving mode to economic growth are changing. Looking back on the past few scientific and technological revolutions, it is often that technological progress has formed a major technological breakthrough in a certain industry or field, which has driven these industries or fields to achieve innovative development. The industries that have achieved innovative breakthroughs have alternately become the leading industries that drive economic growth, and the driving force for economic growth comes from the deepening division of labor. For example, the invention of steam engine and internal combustion engine gave birth to textile industry and automobile industry respectively, which developed rapidly and became the leading industries to stimulate economic growth at that time. Different from the past, the new round of scientific and technological revolution belongs to the universal scientific and technological revolution. With the rapid development of digital technology represented by artificial intelligence, cloud computing, blockchain, big data, etc., in the process of rapid development of digital industry, data is also rapidly integrated into production, distribution, circulation, consumption and social service management as a new production factor, which has greatly changed the technical and economic paradigm of all walks of life, promoted the industrial development from deepening division of labor to mutual integration, spawned new industries, new formats and new models, and generated new economic growth points.
Industrial integration will also change the industrial structure and economic growth mode. With the deepening of industrial integration, economic growth may no longer be limited to the unilateral rapid development of a certain industry or a certain department, but manifested in the coordination and integration of various industries, so as to jointly improve the quality of economic development from the aspects of improving service quality, improving resource utilization efficiency and meeting diversified needs.
In recent years, China’s industrial integration development process has accelerated, its contribution to economic growth has gradually increased, the service level of manufacturing industry has risen, the synergy between supply and demand has been greatly improved, and the consumption level and quality of life of the people have also been greatly improved. The development of industrial integration promotes the transformation of production organization and social division of labor to networking, flattening and platformization, and accelerates the formation of new formats led by platform enterprises; It has spawned new models such as platform design, intelligent manufacturing, networked organization, personalized customization and digital management, which has deepened the relationship between industries; Promoting the synergy between industry and urban development plays a positive role in regional coordinated development. Facing the future, making extensive use of advanced science and technology, continuously breaking down market access barriers, and building and perfecting institutional mechanisms that are compatible with the development of industrial integration will further promote the development of new industries, new formats and new models.
Lay an industrial foundation for accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces
At present, China is the only country in the world that has all the industrial categories in the United Nations industrial classification, and the output of more than 220 industrial products ranks first in the world, and the world’s largest 5G network, high-speed railway network, expressway network and online retail market have been built. At the same time, however, China’s industrial development is still at the low end of the global value chain, and there are still key core technologies such as "stuck neck". On the new journey, we should adhere to the guidance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, implement the Supreme Leader’s economic thought, focus on the real economy, fill in the shortcomings of industrial development, build a modern industrial system with integrity, advancement and safety, lay a solid industrial foundation for accelerating the formation of new quality productivity, and promote China to win strategic initiative in future development and international competition.
Improve the modern infrastructure. Infrastructure is an indispensable public good for industrial development and an important part of modern industrial system. The agglomeration of industries in geographical space, especially the cluster development of specialized suppliers, service providers, financial institutions, manufacturers of related industries and other related institutions in a certain space, can greatly improve the utilization efficiency of infrastructure, effectively reduce the production cost, supporting cost and logistics transaction cost of cluster industries, and produce the spillover and sharing of technology, knowledge and information. Therefore, we should adhere to the guidance of overall optimization and collaborative integration, coordinate the development of traditional and new infrastructure, and create a modern infrastructure system that is intensive, efficient, economical, intelligent, green, safe and reliable, so as to create favorable conditions for China’s industrial transformation and upgrading and cluster development.
Fill in the shortcomings of industrial development. Firmly grasp the key core technologies that restrict high-quality development, carry out scientific research, promote short-board industries to supplement the chain, extend the chain of advantageous industries, upgrade the chain of traditional industries and build chains of emerging industries, and enhance the continuity and competitiveness of industrial development. Fully respect the laws of scientific research, improve the allocation of scientific research resources, promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and implement the main position of scientific and technological innovation in enterprises from the system. We will improve the new national system for tackling key core technologies, organically combine the government, market and society, and make scientific overall plans, concentrate efforts, optimize mechanisms and work together to tackle key problems.
Strengthen the open cooperation of industrial chain and supply chain. Strengthening the open cooperation of industrial chain and supply chain is conducive to improving the quality and allocation level of production factors in China and shaping the new advantages of Chinese enterprises in international cooperation and competition. It is necessary to further deepen reform, speed up the construction of a unified national market, break down local protection barriers, promote the orderly transfer of key industries, and optimize the domestic distribution of productive forces. Adhere to global vision, open mind, benchmark international high-standard economic and trade rules, actively create a good business environment, support enterprises to deeply participate in global industrial division and cooperation, promote deep integration of domestic and foreign industries, promote high-level opening of industries, and strive to promote high-quality development of industrial systems in international competition.
(The author is the director of the Institute of Industrial Economics, China Academy of Social Sciences)