Recently, the term "new quality productivity" has received widespread attention. This year's government work report proposes to vigorously promote the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces.
What are the favorable conditions for developing new quality productive forces in our country? How can various regions across the country seize opportunities to develop new quality productive forces? The reporter conducted an interview on this matter.
Actively take action and make good use of the foundation of conditions
"Now, from the community to the subway station, I have become accustomed to taking autonomous minibuses. Many of my friends around me are 'fans' of autonomous minibuses," said Wang Bin, a 90s citizen from Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
The reporter conducted research in Wuxi and found that the Internet of Things has entered daily life and promoted production, giving rise to more digital new scenarios and applications, accelerating the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries such as manufacturing, logistics, transportation, home furnishings, healthcare, and agriculture, allowing more people to enjoy the convenience of digital life.
The Internet of Things is an important battlefield for forming new productive forces. Wuxi focuses on the key fields of smart sensors, Internet of Vehicles and industrial Internet, "one sense and two networks", speeds up the scientific and technological research and transformation of scientific research achievements, the Internet of Things is booming, the industrial strength is outstanding, the chain structure is complete, the innovation vitality is abundant, and the brand effect is prominent. At present, the application of Internet of Things technology has covered more than 300 sub industries in Wuxi, including transportation, environmental protection, medical care, and safety.
"The Wuxi IoT industry cluster has been successfully selected as one of the first batch of advanced manufacturing clusters in the country. We will focus on the key links and core elements of the development of the IoT industry, specialize in the integration of IoT resource elements, promote the strong, complementary, and fixed chain of the cluster, promote the high-quality development of the IoT industry, and accumulate more new productive forces." said Chen Dapeng, Director of the Wuxi IoT Innovation Promotion Center.
This is a microcosm. Looking across the country, in 2023, the added value of China's equipment manufacturing industry above designated size increased by 6.8% compared to the previous year, and investment in high-tech industries increased by 10.3%, which is 7.3 percentage points faster than total investment... China's economy continues to rebound and improve, high-quality development is solidly promoted, scientific and technological innovation has achieved new breakthroughs, and new quality productivity is accelerating its formation.
At present, various regions across the country are seizing opportunities and actively laying out plans——
Jiangsu focuses on building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, and strengthens the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation; Guangdong regards the realization of new industrialization as a key task in modernization construction and accelerates the cultivation of future industries; Chongqing has released the "Guidelines for the Construction of Industrial Industry Brain in Chongqing (1.0)" and "Guidelines for the Construction of Future Factories in Chongqing (1.0)", focusing on segmented manufacturing industries, reshaping industrial organizational forms and resource allocation models
New productive forces play a leading role in innovation, breaking away from traditional economic growth methods and development paths of productive forces. They possess advanced productive forces characterized by high technology, high efficiency, and high quality, and are in line with the new development concept. Experts believe that accelerating the development of new quality productive forces is an objective requirement for liberating and developing productive forces in the new era and new journey. It is an inevitable choice to promote the iteration and upgrading of productive forces and achieve modernization. It helps to achieve a virtuous cycle of the national economy, better leverage the advantages of the super large scale market, and enhance the sustainability of economic growth and social development.
Cai Jiming, Director of the Political Economy Research Center at Tsinghua University, stated that new quality productivity emerged in the new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation. The digital economy is a fertile ground for cultivating new productive forces, and the private economy is an important carrier of new productive forces. Currently, China has a good foundation and favorable conditions for developing new quality productive forces.
Different paths lead to the same goal, strengthening innovative industries
In January of this year, China's third-generation independent superconducting quantum computer "Honyuan Wukong" was launched, greatly improving the overall operational efficiency of the quantum computer; On February 21, the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced the birth of the "super disc" with a storage capacity of tens of thousands of times that of ordinary discs and hundreds of times that of ordinary hard disks... Today, China's scientific and technological innovation continues to achieve new breakthroughs, and innovation driven development capability continues to improve.
The report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows that China's ranking in the global innovation index has risen to 12th place, and its number of global top 100 science and technology innovation clusters has jumped to the world's first place for the first time.
This year's government work report proposes to fully leverage the leading role of innovation, promote industrial innovation through scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the promotion of new industrialization, improve total factor productivity, continuously shape new driving forces and advantages for development, and promote new leaps in social productivity.
Professor Yang Decai from the School of Business at Nanjing University stated that innovation is the fundamental characteristic of new quality productivity. To develop new quality productive forces, technological innovation must be placed in the most prominent position. At present, new technologies such as artificial intelligence, new materials, and new energy are developing rapidly. We should fully leverage the advantages of the new national system and numerous talents, make breakthroughs in key core technology innovation, and lay a solid scientific and technological foundation for the development of new productive forces.
Yang Decai suggested deepening the reform of the scientific and technological innovation system and mechanism, loosening the constraints on scientific researchers, and stimulating their innovative vitality. Deepen the research and development of key core technologies, and break the technological constraints of being stuck. Strengthen the position of enterprises as the main body of innovation, and fully leverage the decisive role of market mechanisms in innovation. Always attach great importance to basic scientific research and consolidate the cornerstone of technological innovation, especially breakthrough innovation.
"Artificial intelligence is a strategic technology and an important driving force that leads a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. As the foundation of generative artificial intelligence, big models are increasingly becoming the focus of international technological competition." Yang Jianyu, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman, and General Manager of China Mobile Zhejiang Company, said that we should encourage collaborative innovation between industry, academia, and research, accelerate technological breakthroughs and achievement transformation.
Yang Yi, a researcher at the Institute of Optoelectronics in the Aviation Industry, believes that strengthening basic research is an urgent requirement for achieving high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and is the only way to build a world science and technology powerhouse. We should further strengthen top-level design, accelerate the construction of a national laboratory system with Chinese characteristics, and improve the timeliness of scientific and technological output. Accelerate the construction of pilot platforms in the manufacturing industry, providing comprehensive support for the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements.
"New quality productivity leads the future." Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of iFLYTEK, said that it is necessary to strengthen technological innovation, especially original and disruptive technological innovation, so that original and disruptive technological innovation achievements can emerge in competition and cultivate new driving forces for the development of new quality productivity. Layout the industrial chain around the development of new quality productivity, enhance the resilience and security level of the industrial chain supply chain, and ensure the independent, controllable, safe and reliable industrial system.
"In the current and future period, emerging industries such as computing power, quantum, artificial intelligence, and life sciences will inevitably show a rapid development trend. We must seize this wave of technological innovation and industrial transformation opportunities, and transform the advantages of scientific and technological resources into industrial development advantages." Yang Decai said.
Time waits for no one, enhancing traditional industries
Unmanned mining trucks operate in mines, industrial robots tirelessly swing their robotic arms, and intelligent handling robots shuttle back and forth... Currently, relying on new generation information technologies such as 5G, traditional industries such as textiles, equipment, mining, electricity, and steel are shining with new digital vitality.
"At present, digital transformation has become a general trend. We need to apply scientific and technological innovation achievements to specific industries and industrial chains in a timely manner to transform and upgrade traditional industries. We should vigorously develop the digital economy, give full play to the enabling role of the industrial Internet, actively promote digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, and promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy." Qi Guangpeng, chairman of Inspur Yunzhou Industrial Internet, said.
Experts say that developing new quality productive forces is not about ignoring or abandoning traditional industries, but about adhering to starting from reality, first establishing and then breaking, adapting to local conditions, and providing classified guidance. Based on local resource endowments, industrial foundations, scientific research conditions, etc., we should selectively promote the development of new industries, new models, and new driving forces, and use new technologies to transform and enhance traditional industries.
This year's government work report proposes to implement the manufacturing technology transformation and upgrading project, cultivate and strengthen advanced manufacturing clusters, create national new industrialization demonstration zones, and promote the high-end, intelligent, and green transformation of traditional industries.
In Yang Decai's view, it is necessary to strengthen the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation. Transforming traditional industries through technological innovation, accelerating the pace of upgrading traditional industries, enhancing the level of development of traditional industries, and promoting the fundamental transformation of the development mode of traditional industries. At the same time, technological innovation is driving new industries, new models, and new driving forces, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, laying out and constructing future industries, and improving the modern industrial system.
Cai Jiming stated that we need to promote the coordinated development of new and traditional productive forces, and coordinate the upgrading of traditional advantageous industries with the cultivation of emerging future industries. Workers are an important component of productivity, and only through the reform of the workforce can we promote a leap in productivity. On the one hand, it is necessary to guide traditional workers to improve their literacy, and in the process of leaping from traditional productivity to new quality productivity, special attention should be paid to protecting the rights and interests of migrant workers and other groups; On the other hand, we need to accelerate the cultivation of new types of workers such as intelligent workers and enhance the digital literacy of all workers in society.
Cultivating and strengthening new quality productive forces is a long-term task and systematic engineering. Experts say that it is necessary to further deepen the reform comprehensively and form a new type of production relationship that is suitable for it. Deepen the reform of the economic and technological systems, focus on breaking through the bottlenecks that hinder the development of new quality productive forces, establish a high standard market system, innovate the allocation of production factors, and facilitate the smooth flow of various advanced and high-quality production factors towards the development of new quality productive forces. At the same time, we will expand high-level opening-up to the outside world and create a favorable international environment for the development of new quality productive forces.
(Reporter Liu Kun, our correspondent Fan Zixi)
[Editor in charge: Wang Xue]
Translated from: Xinhua News Agency