It is necessary to implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively, vigorously promote the optimization and upgrading of manufacturing industry, and constantly promote the upgrading of industrial base and the modernization of industrial chain.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that the requirements of high-quality development should run through the whole process of new industrialization, and the construction of a manufacturing power should be organically combined with the development of digital economy and industrial informatization to build a strong material and technological foundation for Chinese modernization.
Promoting new industrialization is an important foundation of Chinese modernization, the only way to accelerate the construction of new development pattern, modern industrial system and high-quality development, and it is of strategic significance to accelerate the construction of a manufacturing power and promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of manufacturing industry.
Since the new era, China’s manufacturing industry has become more resilient, has greater potential, has more motivation, has consolidated and expanded its scale development, and has steadily improved its quality and efficiency. From 2012 to 2022, the added value of China’s manufacturing industry increased from 16.98 trillion yuan to 33.5 trillion yuan, ranking first in the world for 13 consecutive years, accounting for nearly 30% of the global manufacturing industry. Scale development has become the strength of China’s manufacturing industry. With the acceleration of digital and intelligent transformation of manufacturing industry, traditional industries have been upgraded, emerging industries have developed and expanded, and manufacturing industry has continuously extended to the high end of industrial chain value chain. Generally speaking, China’s manufacturing industry has formed unique advantages in scale, industry, market and system.
In contrast to the requirements of new industrialization, we must clearly realize that there is still a certain gap between the quality and efficiency of China’s manufacturing industry and the world’s manufacturing powers, and the innovation efficiency still needs to be improved. It is necessary to implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively, vigorously promote the optimization and upgrading of manufacturing industry, and constantly promote the upgrading of industrial base and the modernization of industrial chain.
On the one hand, promote the deep integration of informatization and industrialization. At present, China’s digital technology innovation has changed from following to running and leading in more fields. The industrial Internet has been fully integrated into 45 national economic categories, and breakthroughs have been made in key areas such as 5G technology, supercomputers, quantum information and artificial intelligence, bringing unprecedented opportunities for digital transformation for the development of China’s manufacturing industry. The next step is to promote the digital transformation of traditional industrial production mode, development mode and enterprise form with a new generation of information technology, digital technology and artificial intelligence, and promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of manufacturing industry.
On the other hand, continuously improve the independent supply capacity of industrial scientific and technological innovation achievements to ensure that China’s industrial system is independent, safe and controllable. China has stepped into the ranks of innovative countries, and the core position of innovation in the overall modernization is more prominent. However, the problem of "sticking neck" in some key links still exists, and it is urgent to speed up the key core technology research, give full play to the roles of state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises and universities, cultivate and upgrade the advanced R&D and innovation capabilities of manufacturing industry, advanced manufacturing capabilities, high-end industrial development capabilities and international open cooperation capabilities, and play a "chorus" of promoting new industrialization with high-level science and technology.
Specifically, it is necessary to enhance the development ability of integration of production and education, closely focus on the strategic needs of new industrialization, and focus on building first-class disciplines and first-class majors urgently needed by manufacturing powers; It is necessary to enhance the research and development capabilities of core technologies, continuously optimize the layout of national strategic scientific and technological forces in the manufacturing sector based on the new national system, carry out in-depth industrial base reconstruction projects and major technical equipment research projects, and form more innovative consortia and communities; To improve the advanced manufacturing capacity, it is urgent to face the development of high-end manufacturing and high-end industries, not only to solve the problems of "good design" of products, but also to solve the problems of "good manufacture", "good manufacture" and "good manufacture", and to solve the problems of independent control of key manufacturing bases such as basic materials, basic parts, basic components and basic process equipment; It is necessary to enhance the ability of self-cultivation of talents, vigorously cultivate talents in urgent need and high-end talents, and accelerate the construction of national strategic talents.
(The author is an academician of China Academy of Engineering and president of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)