Vigorously promote the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces

Key takeaways

The new quality productivity is "characterized by innovation, the key is high quality, and the essence is advanced productivity". The modern industrial system is the industrial carrier of new quality productivity, and the construction of a modern industrial system is the process of empowering new quality productivity with innovative elements, cultivating future industries, expanding strategic emerging industries and promoting the transformation of traditional industries. Therefore, it is necessary to promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and vigorously promote the construction of a modern industrial system, so as to accelerate the development and formation of new quality productive forces.

Wu Ke

The new stage of development and the new practice of development need the guidance of new development theories. General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the major theory of "new quality productivity", and made a comprehensive exposition on the connotation and extension of new quality productivity and the theory and practice of developing new quality productivity. During the two sessions of the National People's Congress this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the delegation three times and talked about "new quality productivity" three times, further explaining the methodology for developing new quality productivity. The new quality productivity is "characterized by innovation, the key is high quality, and the essence is advanced productivity". The modern industrial system is the industrial carrier of new quality productivity, and the construction of a modern industrial system is the process of empowering new quality productivity with innovative elements, cultivating future industries, expanding strategic emerging industries and promoting the transformation of traditional industries. Therefore, it is necessary to promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and vigorously promote the construction of a modern industrial system, so as to accelerate the development and formation of new quality productive forces.

The construction of the mainland's modern industrial system has achieved remarkable results

In recent years, the construction of a modern industrial system on the mainland has been accelerated and important progress has been made.

First, strategic emerging industries are booming. The added value of China's strategic emerging industries will rise from 7.6% of GDP in 2014 to more than 13% in 2023. The cumulative export value of the "new three" products, which represent high-tech, high value-added and green economy, reached 1.06 trillion yuan, breaking through the trillion yuan mark for the first time, an increase of nearly 30%. The production and sales of new energy vehicles have remained the first in the world for nine consecutive years, accounting for more than 60% of the world's total.

Second, the modern service industry has maintained a high-speed growth trend. In 2023, the mainland's information transmission, software and information technology services, leasing and business services, and financial services will increase by 11.9%, 9.3%, and 6.8% year-on-year, respectively, and the fixed asset investment in high-tech services will increase by 11.4%.

Third, the pace of digital, intelligent and green transformation of traditional industries has accelerated. By the end of 2023, the mainland has cultivated 421 national-level demonstration factories and more than 10,000 provincial-level digital workshops and smart factories. The national public service platform for the integration of industrialization and industrialization serves 183,000 industrial enterprises, and the numerical control rate of key processes and the penetration rate of digital R&D and design tools in these enterprises have reached 62.2% and 79.6% respectively; The intrinsic safety level of demonstration factories in steel, building materials and other fields has been greatly improved, and carbon emissions have been reduced by about 12%.

The modern industrial system is the industrial carrier of new quality productivity

The formation process of the modern industrial system is the process of the deep transformation of traditional industries, the surge of emerging industries and future industries, and the promotion of the entire industrial system from tradition to modernity. The modern industrial system characterized by digitalization, informatization, intelligence, greening and integration will promote the traditional laborers, labor materials and labor objects and their combinations to achieve a leap forward and become a new type of production factor that constitutes a new quality of productivity, and the new production factors and their optimal combination will in turn give birth to a large number of new industries and new models, leading the construction of a modern industrial system.

Strategic emerging industries and future industries are the main fronts for the formation of new quality productive forces. Based on major breakthroughs in cutting-edge technologies and major development needs, strategic emerging industries play a major leading role in the overall and long-term development of the economy and society, and are an important driving force for cultivating and expanding new growth points, accelerating the transformation of new and old kinetic energy, and leading the development of new and high-quality productive forces. The future industry represents the development direction of science and technology and industry, and is an industry with high scientific and technological content, sufficient green development, strong industrial linkage, and large market space, as well as an industry with deep integration of innovative technology and multiple fields, which are important characteristics of new quality productivity. Accelerating the cultivation of future industries will provide a broad space for the development and growth of new quality productive forces.

The leap and upgrading of traditional industries is an important foundation for the formation of new quality productive forces. The "newness" of new quality productivity lies in the revolutionary breakthrough of technology, the innovative allocation of production factors, and the deep transformation and upgrading of industries, the core of which is the improvement of total factor productivity, and traditional industries are becoming an important support for improving total factor productivity. With the in-depth development of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, digital technology has accelerated the penetration, integration and application of digital technology into the whole process of various fields of traditional industries, promoted the manufacturing process from automation to intelligence, and made leaps and bounds in labor productivity and product added value of traditional industries. Traditional industries are also increasingly applying new technologies, new processes, new materials and new equipment to create a large number of new products with high quality, high performance and low consumption, and the technical content and green content have been significantly improved. In addition, the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries has provided necessary support for the development of emerging industries.

To develop new productive forces, it is necessary to vigorously promote the construction of a modern industrial system

The new quality productivity is the inevitable product of the high-quality development stage, the material and technological foundation on which Chinese modernization depends, and is essentially an advanced productive force. To accelerate the development of new quality productive forces, we must closely rely on scientific and technological innovation and comprehensively promote industrial transformation and upgrading. It is necessary to start from the aspects of cultivating emerging industries, laying out future industries, promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and enhancing the resilience and competitiveness of the industrial chain, so as to promote the integration of intelligent and green industries, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system.

Nurturing emerging industries. We will make better use of the advantages of the large domestic market and rich application scenarios to promote the healthy and orderly development of strategic emerging industries such as the new generation of information technology. Implement industrial innovation projects, improve industrial ecology, expand application scenarios, and promote the development of strategic emerging industry integration clusters. Consolidate and expand the leading advantages of the "new three" industries such as photovoltaics, lithium batteries, and intelligent networked new energy vehicles. Strengthen the main position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, cultivate and expand national high-tech enterprises, stimulate more "specialized, special and new" small and medium-sized enterprises and "unicorn" enterprises, and form a group of "hidden champion" enterprises, innovation leaders, and future emerging enterprises focusing on strategic emerging industrial clusters. Strengthen the overall layout and investment guidance of key industries, and avoid homogeneous and disorderly competition and low-level redundant construction.

Lay out the future industry. Grasp the development law of future industries, cultivate and lay out future industries in stages, open up new tracks such as quantum technology and life sciences, and build new advantages in the development of new productive forces. Aiming at the trend of technology development at home and abroad, we will integrate superior resources to break through the core technology of the future industry and enhance the supply capacity of independent products. Coordinate and promote the construction of new infrastructure such as data centers and industrial Internet that adapt to future industrial development, and improve the support capacity of application scenarios such as 5G and artificial intelligence. Actively participate in the global division of labor and cooperation in future industries, and shape an open, orderly and vibrant future industry innovation ecosystem.

Promote the digital and intelligent transformation of traditional industries. Driven by digital technology innovation, we will accelerate the pace of digital and intelligent transformation of traditional industries. Accelerate the improvement of the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G networks, data centers, and artificial intelligence, promote the integration of new infrastructure with traditional industries, help traditional industries achieve cost reduction, quality and efficiency, and enhance the market competitiveness and overall development level of traditional industries. Fully tap the potential value of data elements, promote the transformation of data assets to data value, and give full play to the empowering and driving role of data resources in traditional industries. Integrate and apply digital technologies such as industrial Internet and big data to transform the technological processes of traditional industries, optimize energy scheduling and accurately implement cascade utilization, and promote energy conservation and carbon reduction in traditional industries.

Enhance the resilience and competitiveness of the industrial chain. Firmly grasp the key core technologies that restrict the development of new quality productive forces, carry out scientific research, give full play to the power of collaborative innovation, and promote the realization of strong chains and independent and controllable industrial chains. Consolidate and upgrade the advantageous industrial chain and supply chain, optimize the layout of major productive forces, promote the deep integration of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain, and promote the mainland industry to move towards the middle and high end of the global value chain. Promote the digital transformation of the industrial chain, and use cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other technologies to promote the operation and management of the entire industrial chain and improve production efficiency. Strengthen the openness and cooperation of industrial and supply chains, support enterprises to deeply participate in the global industrial division of labor and cooperation, promote the deep integration of domestic and foreign industries, and promote the high-quality development of the industrial chain with open innovation.

(Author's Affiliation: Xi Jinping Economic Thought Research Center)