This year marks the 10th anniversary of the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei as a national strategy. Along the way, the three places have sought new knowledge and changes, reshaped the "qualitative state" of productivity, and reconstructed the "territory" of new development, and gradually become one of the main driving forces leading the high-quality development of the country.
In the next 10 years, how will Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei "ignite" the new quality productive forces and strive to build a "pioneer and demonstration area for Chinese-style modernization"? This spring, this reporter went deep into the front line of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei to feel the pulse of the three places working together to develop the new quality productive forces.
This spring, walking on the front line of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, I can clearly feel a spirit of innovation and change that is upward, green and intelligent. As proposed in this year's government work report, the role of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei as a "power source for high-quality development" is being released in an orderly manner.
The year 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. Standing at a new starting point, based on their own endowments, the three places will work together to "ignite" the new quality productivity engine, seek a situation with "new", race with "quality", and help with "reform", and advance to the goal of a pioneer and demonstration area of Chinese-style modernization.
This is the intelligent container terminal in Section C of the Beijiang Port Area of Tianjin Port taken on March 1. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shan Yuqi
Reshaping the "Quality" of Productivity: Steel Is Thinner Than a Hair, Containers Let Robots "Take Over"
On the shore of Bohai Bay, on the colorful corridor of the intelligent wharf in Section C of the Beijiang Port Area of Tianjin Port, nearly 100 intelligent transportation robots are shuttling back and forth, operating in an orderly manner.
Now sitting in the intelligent control center more than 700 meters away from the wharf, it can unload more than ten tons of containers with just a click of the mouse and a joystick. "A class of 5 people can manage the production within 750,000 square meters!" Talking about technological changes, Sun Biao, deputy general manager of Tianjin Port Second Container Terminal Co., Ltd., gushed endlessly.
In this world's first "smart zero-carbon" terminal, which will be put into operation in 2021, 100% green electricity supply will be realized. After connecting "people, vehicles, containers, ships, machines, and yards" through technologies such as the Internet of Things, satellites, 5G, and artificial intelligence, the loading and unloading operation time is reduced by 26.2% compared with manual loading and unloading, and the efficiency of ocean-going trunk ships is increased by 28%.
According to the data, the container throughput of the terminal will exceed 2 million TEUs in 2023, and more than 70% will come from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. "Our target for this year is more than 2.8 million TEUs, and the overall situation is very good at the moment. Sun Biao said.
The development of new quality productivity is not to ignore or abandon traditional industries, but to use new technologies to empower transformation, promote the deep transformation and upgrading of industries, and continuously optimize the structure of the industrial chain and supply chain.
From Shijingshan in Beijing to Caofeidian Port in Hebei Province, Shougang has completed the industrial transformation with the production of high-quality plates as the core in the relocation and adjustment, and one out of every three new energy vehicles in China is manufactured by Shougang Electrical Steel.
"Producing steel thinner than a human hair, which is something that old Shougang did not dare to imagine. In the steel rolling operation department of Shougang Jingtang Company, Rong Yanming, a finishing rolling operator in the MCCR operation area, pointed to the world's first multi-mode continuous casting and rolling production line with a length of 288 meters and said, "Without diamond diamonds, we dare not take on porcelain work!"
Here, the sweaty steelmaking scene has become a historical image, and the engineers adjust the parameters in the control room, and it only takes 25 minutes for a furnace of hot molten steel to be cast directly into slabs and rolled steel coils, and the total process time is reduced to nearly 3 hours compared with the traditional hot continuous rolling process. Clean, low-carbon and high-efficiency have become a new quality productivity for the development of the iron and steel industry.
Looking at the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, regional coordinated development is not only a "great migration" of geographical location, but also a high-quality "reshaping" of productivity.
Reconstruct the "territory" of new development: "R&D in Beijing, manufacturing in Tianjin and Hebei" to release potential
In March this year, SMC (China) Co., Ltd. started the second phase of its Tianjin plant. As the world's leading manufacturer of pneumatic components, the world's top 500 enterprises, which have been deeply cultivated in Beijing for 30 years, now keep its research and development in Beijing, and gradually extend its production supporting functions to Tianjin, Hebei and other places.
"SMC headquarters has approved the project to invest 500 million yuan to build an Asia-Pacific innovation center in Beijing. Ma Qinghai, general manager of SMC Investment Management Co., Ltd., revealed that after completion, the proportion of independent research and development for China's semiconductor, new energy and automotive industries will be significantly enhanced.
There is a key catalyst for new quality productivity, that is, "the innovative allocation of production factors". Like SMC's coordinated layout in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, many enterprises have achieved chain development by integrating production factors in the three regions, which has greatly improved total factor productivity.
"R&D in Beijing, manufacturing in Tianjin and Hebei" - the three places adapt measures to local conditions, complement each other's advantages, focus on making up for shortcomings, elongating boards, and forging new boards, and the resilience and competitiveness of the industrial chain and supply chain have been significantly enhanced.
Data show that in the past decade, the turnover of technology contracts from Beijing to Tianjin and Hebei has exceeded 280 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 26.5%. A total of 1,431 national-level specialized, special and new "little giant" enterprises and 14,042 specialized, special and new small and medium-sized enterprises have been cultivated in the three places, accounting for 12% and 14% of the national proportion respectively. The overall strength has reached a new level, and the strength of scientific and technological innovation has been significantly enhanced.
After Beijing Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park settled in Xiong'an New Area, a number of small and medium-sized enterprises followed. In Xiong'an Miaoxin Medical Laboratory Co., Ltd., which has just settled here, Wang Fangjun, deputy general manager of the "post-90s", is full of excitement. He pointed to the brand-new office area and said ambitiously: "I didn't catch up with the reform of Shenzhen, I finally caught up with the rise of Xiong'an!"
This spring, the high-level interaction between Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei is frequent, the integrated development mechanism is becoming more and more perfect, and a new picture of collaborative innovation and development of "five groups, six chains and five corridors" is slowly unfolding.
"Racing" the future industry: the "two-way rush" of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement
"Let the air be filled with the smell of innovation" has become a buzzword in Xiong'an New Area.
The reporter visited the "new" one by one, and the future-oriented technological achievements are really amazing - Xiong'an Innovation Research Institute has established a number of scientific research platforms such as communication photonic integrated chip laboratory, the Xiong'an Center of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei National Technology Innovation Center has landed, and the Xiong'an Scientific and Technological Achievements Exhibition, Trading and Transformation Center has been put into operation......
From "laboratory" to industrialization, "pilot test" is the key link.
Walking into the pilot base of the Science and Technology Innovation Center in Xiong'an New Area, the R&D and production of Xinlianxin (Hebei Xiong'an) Technology Co., Ltd. attracted the attention of reporters. In January last year, the start-up company that came out of the university laboratory settled in Xiong'an. Today, there are continuous orders for its self-developed narrow linewidth lasers, which have been used in high-altitude satellites and other scenarios, and new products will be launched this year.
The person in charge of the pilot base of the Science and Technology Innovation Center said that as a platform for Xiong'an New Area to undertake Beijing's non-capital functions and develop high-tech industries, our newly built high-standard factory buildings have attracted a number of chip design, unmanned R&D and other enterprises to settle in through three-year rent exemption and two-year rent reduction.
New quality productivity is often spawned by "technological revolutionary breakthroughs", and with the help of new production tools, labor productivity is significantly improved.
In the past few days, on the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou Expressway, a truck with "full equipment" of autonomous driving equipment has been moving at a maximum speed of 90 kilometers per hour. At the beginning of 2024, the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou Expressway Beijing and Tianjin autonomous driving test sections were approved for opening, becoming the first inter-provincial and municipal highway autonomous driving freight test in mainland China.
The cutting-edge exploration of the future development of road freight transportation is a microcosm of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei joint efforts to cultivate future industries. As one of the important power sources leading the country's high-quality development, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei has a large number of first-class universities and high-end talents, which will effectively play a leading role in the development of new quality productivity.
In the next decade, how will Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei lay out a "new track" and create a "new engine"?
According to the cross-regional industrial chain map jointly released by Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei for the first time at the end of 2023, the three places will jointly build six industrial chains of hydrogen energy, new energy and intelligent networked vehicles, cybersecurity, high-end industrial machine tools, biomedicine, and robotics, and sort out the list of key enterprises and application scenarios.
It is revealed that the follow-up three places will also revise and improve the industrial chain map, improve the "supply and demand list" scientific and technological achievements transformation docking mechanism, regularly sort out and release the demand side list of application scenarios and the supply side list of innovative resources, and lay out a number of driving application scenario demonstration projects.
"Reform" the relations of production: develop the problem, reform to solve the problem
Cultivating new productive forces is not only a development topic, but also a reform topic.
To get rid of the traditional economic growth mode and the development path of productive forces, and continuously enhance the endogenous driving force of high-quality development, it is necessary to continue to deepen reform and opening up, break through the blockages that restrict new quality productivity, and allow all kinds of advanced and high-quality production factors to be efficiently allocated and flow smoothly.
For a long time, the evaluation of professional titles has been a common concern of scientific researchers. In order to solve this problem, Tianjin has recently taken the lead in the country to implement the reform measure of "six single top qualifications" for the evaluation and authorization of professional titles. Li Tao, the person in charge of Xinchuang Haihe Laboratory, who became the first authorized unit, said: "With the autonomy of title review, we can better attract high-level talents to join and solve the key technical problems of the industry." ”
According to Zhao Zhengbo, director of the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Tianjin Binhai High-tech Zone, the authorization is tailored to the development needs and talent structure of Xinchuang Haihe Laboratory, with the purpose of helping the construction of "China Xinchuang Valley" and building an industrial innovation ecology with international influence.
To create the "first driving force" of innovation, the key lies in the "first resource" of talent. To build a "strong engine" for talents, it is urgent to break down the barriers of the talent system.
In Xiong'an New Area, 16 policies for talents have been introduced, talent introduction workstations have been set up in 150 colleges and universities, providing all-round, full-factor and full-cycle talent services, and more than 10,000 "Xiongcai cards" have been issued...... In recent months, behind a series of intensive actions, there is a surge of sincerity in the "city of the future".
Firmly grasp the "bull's nose" of innovation and play a good "first move" in reform. The history of reform and opening up has repeatedly shown that only by constantly removing obstacles and breaking down walls can we build a new type of production relationship that is suited to the advanced productive forces.
Turn on the mobile phone, touch the screen, consumers place an order for bonded goods online, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region will achieve next-day delivery. At the beginning of the year, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei first cross-customs bonded exhibition transaction was implemented, and Beijing brought a unique global shopping experience to Tianjin.
Relying on the "off-site supervision" policy of pharmaceutical enterprises, which is the first in the country, the Beijing Cangzhou Bohai New Area Biomedical Industrial Park, which was once a saline-alkali barren beach, has now gathered hundreds of pharmaceutical companies.
Coordinated development has been further promoted, and there is no end to reform and innovation. "All kinds of explicit and implicit barriers are being broken, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei has launched the first batch of 165 qualifications and qualifications for mutual certification, more than 230 high-frequency characteristic convenience services have achieved 'self-service', and 51 institutional innovation achievements in the pilot free trade zone have been replicated and promoted across the country. Guo Lanfeng, a member of the party group of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that in the next step, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei will promote the transformation of coordination in key areas to equal emphasis on rule coordination.
"Efforts should be made to make the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region a pioneer and demonstration area for Chinese-style modernization. "Looking forward to the future, the exciting story of innovation and development in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei will be even more exciting. (Reporter Song Zhenyuan, Wang Lu, Guo Yujing, Zhang Xiao, Wang Jinghuai, Qi Leijie)