How to enhance the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry? The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology replied: Focus on the development of specialization and innovation

The Paper's reporter Zhou Wei

Tian Yulong, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and spokesman of the Press, took a photo by The Paper's reporter Zhou Wei

On January 20, at the press conference on the development of industry and informatization in 2021 held by the Information Office of the State Council, the surging news (www.thepaper.cn) reporter asked: The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized the need to "enhance the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry", and the executive meeting of the State Council also proposed to solidly promote the manufacturing industry from the low-end to the middle and high-end. What achievements has the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology achieved in enhancing the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry? Are there further deployment initiatives?

In this regard, Tian Yulong, chief engineer and spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that enhancing the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry is a clear requirement of this year's Central Economic Work Conference, which is also a major task of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in the future, on the basis of ensuring the stability and safety of the supply chain industrial chain in the early stage, to further enhance the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry.

Tian Yulong said that the stability and security of the industrial chain supply chain is the key to the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. Overall, last year, the industrial economy resumed growth. In the first three quarters, the proportion of manufacturing value added to GDP increased to 27.4%, maintaining the basic stability of the proportion of manufacturing. The efficiency of enterprises has also improved significantly, and in the first 11 months of last year, the profits realized by industrial enterprises on the regulations increased by 38% year-on-year, an increase of 41.3% over the same period in 2019. The overall development of the manufacturing industry is relatively fast, and the improvement of efficiency is also more obvious. Mainly the resilience of the industrial chain supply chain has been guaranteed, this improvement on the entire manufacturing industry is very large, especially some basic and key areas of technology, the level of capacity has also been improved, such as containers, photovoltaics, wind power, energy, electricity these equipment manufacturing industry is more obvious, international competitiveness has also been enhanced, these are the specific performance of the core competitiveness of the improvement. Last year, the high-tech manufacturing industry and the equipment manufacturing industry increased by 18.2% and 12.9% respectively year-on-year, and this growth rate should be said to be very eye-catching in the case of the epidemic.

The improvement of the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry is the main task of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which can be summarized as "3 + 3", and it is necessary to lay the three foundations of core competitiveness:

The first is to enhance the industrial technology base. The key to the manufacturing industry is still the core technology, the key technology of the problem, in this regard will make great efforts to restrict the key technology that restricts the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry, the implementation of special research projects. Create a number of manufacturing innovation centers, especially with the local government to build a number of centers, promote the aggregation of industrial clusters and industrial chains, so that the upstream and downstream of the manufacturing industry can form a linkage effect and coordinated development.

The second is to enhance the ability of industrial technological innovation. The core of industrial technology is the industrial foundation, including basic components, basic components, basic materials, basic software, basic processes and industrial technology foundation, these "six foundations" are actually the key basis for the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. It is necessary to further accelerate the industrial base reconstruction project so that the core competitiveness of the industry can be further enhanced.

Third, the resilience of the industrial chain supply chain has been further strengthened. To open up the blockages in the industrial chain supply chain, especially to make up for the shortcomings of the forging long board, it is necessary to upgrade, improve quality and increase efficiency, increase efforts to boost manufacturing investment, so that the integrity, resilience and level of the industrial chain are comprehensively improved, and technological transformation and equipment renewal are accelerated.

Highlights should be formed in three areas. The first bright spot is that specialization and specialization should be developed in large quantities and focused on development. Through a series of policies such as fee reduction and tax reduction, the rapid development of specialized new enterprises has become the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry, especially an important force in the industrial chain supply chain.

The second bright spot is that the level of intelligent manufacturing should be greatly improved. The use of digital technology and information empowerment technology has accelerated the digital transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, so that the equipment manufacturing industry and high-tech manufacturing industry continue to lead in some high-level parts and components and 5G+ industrial Internet applications. To improve the level, intelligent manufacturing is a breakthrough and a point of strength.

The third highlight, green manufacturing, is the implementation of carbon peaking actions in the industrial sector. In key industries and key areas, carbon peaking should be accelerated, vigorously develop green manufacturing, and lead the technological upgrading and transformation of manufacturing industry. Carry out green and low-carbon technology applications and product research and development, and implement industrial energy efficiency and water efficiency improvement plans. Low-carbon and green are an important driving force to drive the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry and the innovative development. It is also necessary to resolutely curb the blind development of the "two supremes" project.

Tian Yulong said that through these six measures, the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry has been greatly improved, which is the key work in 2022 and the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.

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