The U.S. recently issued a prohibition on export authority to ZTE Corporation, which has led to a heated debate on high-tech manufacturing in the society. Advanced manufacturing, represented by chips and high-precision instruments, is the focus of global manufacturing competition, and it is also a process of China's progress towards manufacturing a strong country. In the middle, the pass must be overcome.
Where is China's Advanced Manufacturing Department located in the world and how can we develop advanced manufacturing? The reporter recently interviewed the responsible person of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Leading innovations and running more, leading the emergence
Advanced manufacturing is the most active and most productive field in the manufacturing industry. It is also a high-profit, high-value-added field in the value chain. Studies have shown that the US’s per capita output in advanced manufacturing is twice that of non-advanced manufacturing. An advanced manufacturing position can drive 3.5 jobs in the supply chain.
With the global economy weakening, energy resources and environmental constraints tightening, major developed countries have set their sights on this, consolidating the economic core and seizing the commanding heights of industrial development.
Luo Wen, deputy minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that thanks to a complete industrial system, a solid manufacturing base, and a huge domestic market for absorbing new technologies, China’s advanced manufacturing innovation is mainly from follow-up, and it is accelerating to enter and follow, running ahead and increasing. In the new phase of emergence, ICs, new energy vehicles, large aircrafts and other fields have achieved a number of landmark achievements. The new generation of information technology, new material technologies, and new energy technologies are driving group technological breakthroughs. Data show that in 2017, China The added value of high-tech manufacturing increased by 13.4% year-on-year, faster than that of industries above designated size by 6.8 percentage points.
In spite of the ever-increasing ability to innovate, compared with developed countries, there are still gaps in advanced manufacturing in China. Luo Wen believes that this is mainly reflected in the shortcomings in the industrial base, the shortage of high-end talents, the inability of companies to operate globally, and the need to optimize the development environment. In addition, foreign multinational companies actively use the globalized production network and organizational model, and use core technologies and professional services to control the high-end links of the value chain. China's advanced manufacturing development faces the risk of being 'low-end locked'.
"In the short-term, advanced manufacturing is the key to realizing a virtuous circle of economic development. In the long run, it is the lifeline of the country's economy." Luo Wen said: The next step is to guide the deployment of advanced manufacturing's major productive forces and accelerate the implementation of innovation results into the industry.
Inciting stocks to green, smart upgrades
The development of advanced manufacturing is also aimed at transforming and upgrading traditional industries with advanced and applicable technologies, processes, processes, materials, etc., to stimulate the transformation of stocks.
'There is no backward industry, only backward technology.' Luo Wen said that for China's manufacturing, it will superimpose manufacturing advantages and networking, and intelligence, and form a new supply capacity in the digital era is a top priority.
The technological innovation dividend has made many traditional industries 'change their appearances in the past.' Take clocks and watches as an example. Not long ago, the PT5000 mechanical watch independently developed by China’s Chongqing Watch & Watch Co., Ltd. passed the German Observatory certification, which marked the watchmaking technology in China. The process ranks among the best in the world.
'Watch is an advanced manufacturing industry that combines high-precision machinery and information technology. Breakthroughs in technology in this area will serve the high-speed rail, aviation, shipping and other fields.' Gao Yanmin, Director of the Consumer Products Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said.
Network intelligence adds new labels to traditional industries. On the one hand, individual customization, flexible supply, and collaborative manufacturing subvert existing production methods. On the other hand, smart technologies accelerate convergence and expand new areas and growth points from the traditional.
Eco-environmental protection is not only a 'hard index', but also a new kinetic energy. Using self-developed sensors, IoT technologies and model algorithms, Shanghai Inshi Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. not only realizes the intelligent monitoring of more than a thousand kinds of industrial gases, but also provides data cloud platform to provide Environmental protection solutions. Currently signed a cooperation agreement with Baosteel Chemical. In the future, it will be applied to petroleum and petrochemical, printing and other fields to shake the huge market.
'Digital and green are bringing new dividends for development.' Chen Yin, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will speed up technological innovation and intelligent transformation to drive traditional industries to create new advantages.
Build an open ecological release 'multiplication' effect
The more revolutionary technology that emerges, the more it emerges from co-evolution, the dynamic and open innovation system. Advanced manufacturing is also the same. Seize the opportunity to achieve advanced manufacturing capabilities, we must also build an open ecology, promote the interaction of innovative elements, release ' Multiplication' effect.
Miao Miao, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the “Made in China 2025” key development areas will create a good environment for innovation and build equal opportunities for development. The newly revised “Industrial Catalogue for Foreign Investment (2017)” has also been significantly reduced. Access restrictions on foreign investment. At present, the focus of foreign investment has gradually expanded from processing and manufacturing to high-tech fields such as computers, integrated circuits, and intelligent manufacturing. In China, regional headquarters have been set up, and nearly 2,000 multinational companies have participated in R&D centers.
Within the industry, the open ecology between the fields is also gradually established. High-quality construction of the 'Made in China 2025' national demonstration zone, establish and improve the national manufacturing innovation system, and build the world's advanced manufacturing clusters...... China has adopted cross-regional, cross-domain resource integration , Build a collaborative innovation industry ecosystem, and guide the deployment of advanced manufacturing major productivity.
Luo Wen said that the next step will be to increase the efficiency of resource allocation, accelerate the market-based allocation reform of land, capital, and energy, strengthen the support of new elements such as data, information, and knowledge, broaden advanced manufacturing financing channels, and promote the development of Together force.
Source: Xinhua News Agency Reporter: Zhang Xinxin