Exclusive Interview with the Two Sessions │ Zhang Xinghai: The shortage of automobile chips and the shortage of manufacturing workers need to be solved

Authoritative, in-depth and practical financial information is here

In 2022, the two sessions of the National People's Congress will be held soon, and Zhang Xinghai, a deputy to the National People's Congress and founder of Xiaokang Group, will make suggestions and suggestions on hot topics such as the shortage of automobile chips and the shortage of manufacturing workers.

Among them, in view of the shortage of automotive chips, Zhang Xinghai suggested that the competent departments for automotive chips should be set up from the level of national ministries and commissions to formulate top-level design and supporting measures for the development of the automotive chip industry. With the strength of the state, promote the rise of the domestic car regulation-level chip industry.

Accelerate the realization of "chip on the car"

In the past two years, the chip shortage problem has spread around the world, and China's automotive industry has also been affected, and even the chip supply has been cut off.

Zhang Xinghai believes that the problem of "supply cut" of automobile chips is difficult to effectively regulate and solve simply by using market means, and in the long run, it is necessary to give more play to the advantages of the system and mechanism of the mainland's socialist concentration of forces to do big things, and promote the rise of the domestic vehicle regulation chip industry with the strength of the state. He believes that at present, it is imperative to improve the localization rate of vehicle-grade chips, which should become an important strategic direction of the national industry, and it is time to accelerate the realization of autonomous and controllable vehicle-grade chips.

Zhang Xinghai said that a series of policies have been introduced at the national level, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is also continuing to organize relevant forces to solve the shortage of automotive chips, including the establishment of an automotive chip innovation alliance, the establishment of a chip supply and demand exchange platform, and the punishment of chip hoarding and price increase, etc., which have achieved positive results, but there is still a long way to go from fundamentally realizing the independent and controllable development of automotive chips.

"Realizing the self-reliance and self-improvement of domestic automotive chips is the key to the mainland automobile industry from high quantitative growth to high-quality core development, which will directly determine the international competitiveness and status of the mainland automobile industry in the post-epidemic era." Zhang Xinghai said.

To this end, Zhang Xinghai suggested that the competent department of automotive chips should be set up from the level of national ministries and commissions to formulate top-level design and supporting measures for the development of the automotive chip industry, and at the same time coordinate resources and manage the research and development, manufacturing and application of domestic automotive chips to ensure the active, steady and efficient development of domestic automotive chips and achieve domestic substitution as soon as possible.

Zhang Xinghai also suggested encouraging vehicle companies and chip companies to work together across borders and joint innovation, actively promote R&D innovation, industrialization innovation, management innovation, etc. The government has introduced policies such as R&D subsidies, tax reductions, and financial discounts to accelerate the realization of "chip on the car".

It is recommended to work together to build a new energy vehicle highland in Sichuan and Chongqing

Zhang Xinghai is a native of Chongqing, very familiar with the resources of the automobile industry in Sichuan and Chongqing, he believes that the resource endowments of the two places are different, Chongqing has strong vehicle and manufacturing strength, and has a complete supply system including engines, transmissions, brake systems and other major assemblies. Sichuan has an industry-leading advantage in intelligent network connection and auto parts, and has great advantages in the technical fields of intelligent networked vehicle inspection and testing platform, information security, perception sensor, chip-level navigation and positioning module, combined navigation technology and software/algorithm, and has rich intellectual and scientific and technological resources such as universities and research institutes. Especially in terms of the energy (electric energy, battery, hydrogen energy) urgently needed by new energy vehicles, Sichuan's advantages are very obvious. China's new energy vehicle battery giant Ningde Times and Honeycomb Energy have both landed in Sichuan to build battery factories. Sichuan is an important clean energy production base in China and has the resource advantage of promoting high-quality energy development.

Zhang Xinghai believes that due to their respective advantages, if the two places develop together, it is expected to achieve the effect of 1+1>2. He suggested that the relevant departments of the state, from the perspective of the development of Sichuan-Chongqing new energy vehicles, promote the integration of the sichuan-Chongqing new energy automobile industry chain (especially energy), the integration of core technology research and development and application, and the integration of application scenarios, and promote the high-quality development of the sichuan-Chongqing new energy automobile industry.

He said that clean energy should be prioritized for consumption in the "Twin Cities Economic Circle", support the integrated development of the Sichuan-Chongqing power grid, and let the charging and use of new energy vehicles adopt clean energy at the carbon footprint level. At the same time, it supports the integration of core technology research and development and application of the two places, and supports the integration of core technology research and development and application in the fields of intelligent network connection, core three electricity, information security, software and algorithms, navigation and other fields, including the research and development of key core technologies of hydrogen energy.

It is recommended to attract young people to become industrial workers

The difficulty of recruiting workers in the automobile manufacturing industry is also the focus of Zhang Xinghai's attention. He pointed out that in recent years, the hollowing out of industrial workers has become more pronounced, and in the past five years, an average of 1.5 million laborers have left the manufacturing industry every year. In stark contrast to the loss of manufacturing labor, the current field of online live broadcasting has attracted many young people to work, and young people who go to the city to work would rather deliver takeaways than go to work in factories.

"The manufacturing industry gives many people the impression that the work intensity is high, the working environment is poor, and the work is not decent. Today's workers are mainly post-90s and post-00s young people, who grew up in the era of China's economic take-off, living conditions and education levels are higher, living more egoistically, and unwilling to stay in factories. Zhang Xinghai said that from the overall revenue point of view, many manufacturing companies are less competitive than companies in real estate, Internet and other industries.

How to solve the problem of recruitment difficulties and labor difficulties of manufacturing enterprises?

Zhang Xinghai believes that this requires the joint efforts of the government, society, enterprises and other parties, such as the government to introduce incentive policies to support young people to compete for industrial workers.

He suggested that the relevant government departments can make efforts in many aspects, such as providing employment subsidies for new employees, giving certain income subsidies and insurance subsidies to temporary workers involved in order-based production, and implementing differentiated talent policy support for strategic emerging industries and traditional industries.

Zhang Xinghai also suggested that relevant departments focus on cultivating innovative, applied, skilled, and scarce talents, gradually build a manufacturing talent cultivation system that is compatible with the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry and develop gradient, enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of vocational skills training, strengthen the employment skills training and entrepreneurial training of key groups, accurately carry out "menu-style" training, and encourage school-enterprise cooperation "order class" employment.

Edit: Quan Zeyuan

Video: Jia Lixin

Producer: Zhang Jiao

Proofreader: Feng Wenjun

Photo editor: Zhao Yanyi

Production: Zhang Wei

Editor-in-charge: Zhang Xiaoguang

Guo Chenxi

Producer: Pu Hongyi

Issued: Pan Linqing