Entering the market represents opening up new space in new fields. At present, the mainland's growing high-tech industry has embodied such a momentum.
This is the growth rate of investment in high-tech industries, which is 6.9 percentage points higher than the growth rate of all investment, and the position of the new engine of investment is becoming increasingly prominent.
In terms of different fields, investment in high-tech manufacturing increased by 10.8 percent year-on-year! Investment in high-tech services increased by 12.7 percent year-on-year!
This set of high-speed growth data means that more companies are stepping up to "high technology" and marching into the frontier field. Artificial intelligence is arguably one of the hottest areas this year. On the banks of the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, in an artificial intelligence town, large models and various AI applications are growing at an accelerated pace.
A "big model" grows in the "town"
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When the reporter came to Turing Town, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the sound of decoration came and went, and many companies were busy settling in. An artificial intelligence company has been queuing for more than half a year.
In a town where new neighbors are pouring in, new technologies are emerging. The person in charge of a company showed the reporter their self-developed 100-billion-level parameter artificial intelligence model, which can not only have daily conversations and generate pictures, but also automatically write code and read academic papers.
In another company, a large video generation model that benchmarks foreign advanced technology has also achieved a key technological breakthrough. The reporter watched some video clips generated by the large model first, and you can see this Chinese-style video, which deeply simulates the real physical world, and can also generate fixed characters and complex scenes.
Zhao Huaijian, director of government affairs and strategic development of SenseTime, told reporters that the Wensheng video platform they are building can produce videos with a length of about 60 seconds. They can preset the character's clothing, hairstyle, scene, and other content in advance, making the video continuous and coherent.
The reporter found that more and more artificial intelligence technologies are going out from the R&D center of Turing Town enterprises to accelerate the empowerment of thousands of industries. The intelligent portrait robot only needs to upload a photo, and in less than two minutes, a personal sketch style portrait can be born.
A digital factory with an annual output of 500,000 servers can accurately place 14,000 components per second in a millimeter-level space, increasing the average output efficiency by 5.1 times and shortening the order lead time by 65%.
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence has injected more scientific and technological content into the town, and now, on only 1 square kilometer of land in the core area of Turing Town, there are 163 national science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises and 126 national high-tech enterprises.
"Fighting alone" to "working hard in a group"
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For many enterprises, to truly enter the new field of artificial intelligence, they need to cross a series of high-tech thresholds.
Fang Xian, assistant to the president of Hangzhou Toncin Computing Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters that the AI field is very new, and every enterprise belongs to a small component in this module.
On the sign of the office building in Turing Town, the reporter saw that the names of different business entities were written side by side: government, state-owned enterprises, and private enterprises, and a new set of work ideas was being opened.
Lan Jianping, vice president of the Zhejiang Provincial Development Planning Research Institute, told reporters that an innovation consortium is being formed, "the government is on the stage, the enterprise is on the chain, the innovation is on the board, and the application is on the road."
In January of this year, a multi-party intelligent computing center was officially put into use in the town, with a scale of 2300P, equivalent to the computing power of 1 million PC computers. Zhang Peng, head of the AIGC Intelligent Computing Center in Turing Town, Hangzhou, told reporters that large enterprises do not have enough computing power and need 10000 calorie clusters and 10,000 card clusters, which can reduce the cost of computing power operation through intensive management. Start-ups can also lower the barrier to entry by flexibly renting computing power.
After consolidating the "computing power" on the base, how to break through the "algorithm" on the spire has become a new problem. In the background of a large enterprise model, the reporter saw that the back of each large model was marked with such a word: "public". Wang Fang, senior director of Zhipu AI, said: Their large model is completely open source and free for commercial use. Programmers can download it from the Internet and use it directly.
The reporter saw one of the large model algorithms, which has been collected nearly 40,000 times, and in order to facilitate more enterprises to use this set of algorithms, the company has also specially compiled an "operation manual".
At present, many enterprises have chosen open source technology to promote collaborative research and downstream application research and development of key technologies by sharing core algorithms. In Zhejiang alone, more than 3,000 open source models have been launched. Up to now, the number of enterprises in the statistical catalogue of artificial intelligence industry in Zhejiang Province has reached 1,745, and the R&D expenses of enterprises have increased by 21.8% year-on-year.
No congestion on high-end roads
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To enter the high-tech field, it is inseparable from high-end manufacturing. In the first quarter of the national statistics, the investment in the aviation equipment manufacturing industry achieved a rapid growth of 42.7%. There is such a company, which was originally mainly engaged in the production of boilers and elevators, but now it has become the main supplier of parts for the C919 domestic large aircraft.
The company, which manufactures aircraft emergency generator doors and auxiliary power unit doors, has been building doors at a rate that has been in the same volume as last year.
- This year alone, 40 C919 orders will be delivered. With such high-intensity production, it is hard to believe that this company is actually a "halfway home", and they used to be a manufacturer of elevators and boilers.
Wang Shuifu, Chairman of Xizi United Holdings Co., Ltd.: If you develop new products when the company has no money, then the daylily will be cold. We also want to go to the high-end, although we know that the road is difficult, but the high-end road is not congested.
With the idea of being prepared for danger in times of peace, the company embarked on a challenging transformation path. They invested the money they earned from building boilers and elevators into the research and development of aircraft parts. The company spent less than $20 million a year on new equipment. What makes them ruthless is the determination to move towards the field of high-end manufacturing.
Becoming a C919 supplier is just the beginning of the real challenge. However, to innovate is to open up a way out where there is no road, and the independent technical research of enterprises is also carried out.
During the reporter's interview, the company's production line encountered another unexpected situation, and the data of the cabin door in the production process was abnormal.
According to the process requirements, the clearance between the two key components on the hatch should be 0.04 mm when they are installed together. However, this number was exceeded when measured. After analysis, it was found that the reason was that the ductility of a batch of aluminum alloy raw materials fluctuated slightly due to the change of production batches.
By adjusting the process parameters such as the holding time and pressure size of the equipment, the technical team finally ensures that the assembly gap of all output parts is strictly controlled at 0.04 mm, without any difference.
Up to now, the company has obtained 344 special process qualification certifications. The identity of the C919 supplier has also helped the company to speed up the opening of the international market, and now, the company has received global orders until next year.
Wang Shuifu, Chairman of Xizi United Holdings Co., Ltd.: Walking slowly, steadily, and without stopping, I am quite confident that I am walking ahead of time before I know it.
The mainland industry is climbing to the "high".
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For the industry to leap towards the middle and high-end, it is necessary to maintain a sense of urgency in innovation, as well as a kind of perseverance and perseverance. Since the first quarter, scientific and technological innovation achievements have been accelerated out of the laboratory and transformed into productivity. In Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, the flexible and low-cost satellite solar array developed by the Yangtze River Delta Solar Photovoltaic Technology Innovation Center has been commercialized.
Shen Zhenjue, deputy director of the Solar Cell and Module Research Institute of Jiangsu Photovoltaic Center, said that its cost per square meter is only one-tenth of that of traditional solar arrays, and the product has been successfully carried on two low-orbit commercial satellites.
Scientific and technological innovation has become a new engine for "igniting" industrial upgrading. In Jinxiang, Shandong, local chemical enterprises led product iteration through technological innovation and expanded new development space under the condition that the original industry was gradually saturated, and the industrial output value of the new material industrial park achieved double-digit growth year-on-year in the first quarter.
Li Yuwei, deputy director of the Management Committee of Shandong Jining New Material Industrial Park, told reporters that since the beginning of this year, they have set their sights on more refined fields and promoted the construction of 50 key projects of advanced basic materials, key strategic materials and cutting-edge new materials, with an additional investment of 60 billion yuan.
The latest release of a number of data confirms the growth of the new engine and the enthusiasm for market innovation and change. In the first quarter of this year, the added value of the mainland's high-tech manufacturing industry above designated size increased by 7.5% year-on-year, 2.6 percentage points faster than the fourth quarter of last year, and the output of 3D printing equipment, integrated circuits, and service robots increased by 40.6%, 40.0%, and 26.7% year-on-year respectively.
Director丨Shen Yong, Yan Shuainan, Zhang Qin
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Reporter丨Zhang Yijin, Huang Baochi, Gao Yao, Yu Qianqian, Luo Xiao, Zhejiang Station, Hangzhou Station, Xiaoshan Rong Media Center
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