It's hard to do new things in the old city. It is even more difficult to cultivate and develop "new quality productive forces" in the old city.
The history of Liangxi District, Wuxi City, can be traced back to more than 1000 years BC. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal runs through the city center, connecting Wuxi, the land of fish and rice, with the capital Beijing.
The ancient Liangxi District has practiced new quality productivity and embarked on a new road of "not avoiding difficulties": the top-level design is "body", institutional innovation is "phase", investment promotion strategy is "use", and the new quality productivity and new quality production relations promote each other, providing some "valuable" practical experience.
Identify new quality productivity
Historically, Liangxi is ancient. Liangxi District is located in the center of Wuxi, with a total area of about 72.1 square kilometers, and is named after the Liangxi River in the west of Wuxi. "Liangxi" used to be another name of Wuxi, and the earliest written record has been more than 3,000 years ago.
Judging from the administrative division, Liangxi is very young. In February 2016, Chong'an District, Nanchang District and Beitang District were abolished and merged into Liangxi District, the central urban area.
Bird's-eye view of Liangxi District (click to enlarge)
In 2023, the GDP of Liangxi District will be 162.4 billion yuan, an increase of 6.3%.
Like many historic urban districts, the added value of the tertiary industry accounts for 86.8% of the GDP, while the added value of the secondary industry accounts for only 13.2%. Improving the secondary industry, especially the manufacturing industry, and striving to reach 15-20% by 2025 has become the main goal of Liangxi District.
To speed up the development of the manufacturing industry, it is necessary to play a stimulating role in the new quality of productivity. In 2023, Liangxi District will accelerate the construction of urban industrial carriers, highlight the introduction of advanced manufacturing, and increase industrial investment by 136.2% throughout the year, ranking first in the city.
Taking the new quality productivity as the starting point, Liangxi District has the following three "top-level design" ideas.
First of all, we need to lay out digital infrastructure ahead of time and give full play to the advantages and potential of data production factors. Digital reshapes the world, and the "algorithm plus data" carried by transmission, computing power, storage and other technologies is the underlying cornerstone of new productivity.
In Liangxi Science and Technology City, Huawei's data center has been put into operation. Its full name is Wuxi Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Innovation Base, with a scale of 100P computing power in the first phase, and an expansion to 400P in the second phase, with the goal of building a national artificial intelligence public basic service platform. P is the quantitative unit of computing power, and 1P is about equal to 1000 trillion calculations per second.
Wuxi Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Innovation Base
According to Cai Jiliang, deputy director of Wuxi Liangxi Science and Technology City Administration, it is planned to build "two centers" around the artificial intelligence collaborative innovation base, namely Wuxi Artificial Intelligence Computing Center and Wuxi Ascend Artificial Intelligence Ecological Innovation Center; We will build four major ecological platforms - a public computing service platform, an application innovation incubation platform, an industrial aggregation and development platform, and a scientific research innovation and talent training platform.
As a result, Liangxi District has been able to build a core ecosystem of artificial intelligence and accurately introduce projects with good growth and high added value in the artificial intelligence industry chain: it has attracted leading artificial intelligence enterprises such as Extreme Vision and iSoftStone; The world's third largest warehousing robot company, unmanned driving enterprise, Jiuzhi Intelligence and other chain master enterprises.
Secondly, open a new situation, aim at the new track of the aerospace industry and low-altitude economy, and expand the circle and strengthen the chain.
Oriental Space Industrial Park is the first 5 billion-level strategic emerging industry project in Liangxi in recent years.
It is oriented to the recyclable rocket power technology, and develops the core business of R&D, production and testing of the "Force-85" rocket engine, which will reach an annual output of 300 liquid rocket engines and support the flight of 30 "Gravity-2" rockets per year.
The Vostok Space Gravity-1 commercial launch vehicle was successfully launched
At the same time, the project is guided by the scientific and technological innovation and research and development of the aerospace industry, and after completion, it will accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in rocket manufacturing, ground equipment, satellite communications, aviation equipment, space exploration, test platforms and other links, and build a number of national innovation platforms.
In terms of low-altitude economy, EHang, the world's first listed urban air mobility company, has settled in Liangxi Science and Technology City. Relying on the first-mover advantage of the aerospace industry, Liangxi has accelerated the "landing" of the low-altitude economy.
UAV products manufactured by EHang
Third, reform the old industry and promote the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.
China is the world's largest textile country. However, only 20,000 devices on the market are equipped with IoT functions, accounting for 4% of the total spinning industry scale, and the application of big data in the spinning industry is weak.
Jiangsu Glorui Energy Saving Technology Co., Ltd. provides enterprise users with 55 industry mechanism models for 11 textile process links, including warping machine tension control, 21 data analysis algorithms such as data clustering algorithm Log Cluster, and has developed 70 industrial APPs - 15 links in the production process can be used.
Liangxi Industrial Development Group has joined hands with Baidu to build Baidu's first large-scale model innovation center deployed in the country's privatized region in Wuxi - Baidu Intelligent Cloud Wenxin Qianfan Large Model (Wuxi) Innovation Center. In cooperation with Glory, the center has successfully applied artificial intelligence technology to the textile industry, and realized the intelligent judgment of the working status of spindles by collecting spinning equipment working data with industrial cameras supplemented by visual large models. This not only greatly reduces manual operations, but also significantly improves quality inspection accuracy and production efficiency.
Baidu Intelligent Cloud Wenxin Qianfan Large Model (Wuxi) Innovation Center
Relying on resources such as artificial intelligence and industrial intelligent technology, Liangxi District's "Transforming the Old Industry" plan adopts an advanced generative artificial intelligence whole-process tool chain to bring accurate intelligent manufacturing solutions to industrial enterprises and promote the comprehensive upgrading of intelligent manufacturing in the Yangtze River Delta.
Forging a new quality production relationship
Focusing on the cultivation of new quality productivity, Liangxi District has "worked hard" in both planning and service.
First of all, determine the development strategy and find the right track.
The essence of finding the track is to solve two questions: the old town, why is it renewed? The old town, how to renew?
The renewal of old towns has universal significance in China and even around the world. The typical characteristics of the old city are backward infrastructure, hollowing out of industrial development, insufficient stock space, and scarce land resources. The living and ecological level is relatively good, and the production level is insufficient. At most, it is suitable for living, traveling, and creating, but it is difficult to be suitable for business and business.
Without a business-friendly environment, there will be no enterprises, no increase in GDP and an increase in the general public budget, which will lead to the inability to solve old problems, the dilapidation of the regional environment, and the difficulty of increasing the sense of gain and happiness of citizens. Without the support of the primary and secondary industries, the tertiary industry is not doing much.
The Qingming Bridge Scenic Area at night is full of tourists
Ding Dawei, member of the Standing Committee of the Wuxi Liangxi District Party Committee and deputy head of the district, said frankly to Nanfeng Window, "I am afraid that the old city will sink." As long as the GDP increases by 100 billion yuan and the general public budget revenue increases by 5 billion to 6 billion yuan, rigid expenditure can be guaranteed, and "the economy is good, and the people's livelihood can be good".
The old city must be renewed, we have to find the track, in the secondary industry, the manufacturing industry has the best effect on the economy and the absorption of labor. Therefore, targeting the manufacturing industry is the only way for every city and even every urban area.
How to update, is to find the "right" track. Segments of the manufacturing industry, thousands. Just like the new quality productivity, it includes a new generation of information technology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, green environmental protection, brain-like intelligence, quantum information, gene technology, future networks, deep-sea aerospace development and other industries.
Liangxi District chose to "adapt measures to local conditions".
The aerospace economy does not "fly" out of thin air.
Yangming Street, in the past, had the foundation of township industry, and later developed into an economically strong town, with 100 million yuan village under its jurisdiction. In 2009, Wuxi Yangming Sensor Information Park was born here, which became an important "wing" in the "one body and two wings" of Wuxi National Sensor Information Center.
The sensor park has gathered a number of Internet of Things enterprises, precision mold manufacturing and automation equipment design and production enterprises, and the "industrial strong town" has "smart genes". Therefore, they can directly "open the mold" for rocket companies in the Oriental space, support the manufacturing link of the aerospace industry, and promote localized cooperation in the industrial chain.
Oriental Space Force-85 liquid oxygen kerosene engine model
Due to the good foundation and strong cultivation efforts, the aerospace economy in Liangxi District has been "one step ahead" - focusing on the construction of the aerospace industry ecosystem, building an aerospace industrial park, and focusing on building three 10-billion-level industrial ecosystems of commercial rockets, satellite manufacturing applications, and spatial information applications with the development model of "ecosystem + industrial chain + chain master".
At the same time, Liangxi District plans to build a platform for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, build a number of national innovation platforms, and continue to amplify the multiplier effect of the aerospace industry.
"Liangxi District is striving to practice the exploration of 'developing new quality productivity according to local conditions', and realize the 'new' and 'quality' of the central urban area," said Zhu Gang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Liangxi District of Wuxi City, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Wuxi Liangxi Science and Technology City Administration.
Second, do a good job of service.
In an interview, Ding Dawei expressed Liangxi's "service experience", "planning and leadership, policy support".
In addition to finding the right track and setting development goals, the development path, the objects of coordination, and the specific work arrangements are all part of the government's planning. In 2023, Liangxi issued the "Several Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Scientific and Technological Innovation", focusing on the attraction of projects of large institutes, accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and accelerating the cultivation of innovative enterprises.
The policy is more detailed, and there are "nine articles" such as "nine articles on finance", "nine articles on talents", "nine articles on science and technology" and "nine articles on aerospace space".
According to Wang Wei, deputy director of the Organization Department of the Liangxi District Party Committee, the core of the "Nine Talents" is "where the industry goes, the talent service will be followed up". For example, there are more than 200 "talent rights" pioneered by Liangxi, from seeking medical consultation, to enrollment, to loan check-in, all of which are divided in detail - there is always one that makes talents "feel at home".
Liangxi Aerospace Industry Exhibition Hall
Tearing down the wall and building a flower path is just a small detail of the construction of Liangxi Aerospace Industrial Park, but there is a service idea of "unbounded integration" behind it: neither a closed wall nor a low-end bush, the government insists on repairing and decorating it from the perspective of environmental friendliness, low carbon, openness and sharing, so as to enhance the experience and feelings of new productivity talents, and create a science and technology community with excellent supporting facilities and "touching people with emotion".
The "Nine Aerospace Measures" focus on encouraging "localized collaboration". In order to let the local head enterprises and upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain deeply integrate, support each other and develop crosswise. It includes a number of detailed rules such as upstream and downstream market procurement, traditional enterprise promotion, cost reduction and efficiency increase.
Local economic growth model with Chinese characteristics
The experience of Liangxi District in practicing "new quality productivity" can be said to highlight the "evolution" of the local economic growth model with Chinese characteristics under the new situation.
After the market-oriented reform and China's accession to the WTO, local economic competition has become increasingly fierce, and the government and the market have taken on the following characteristics: Local governments have dual identities and attributes. On the one hand, local governments are the providers of public services and the regulators of market order within their jurisdictions. On the one hand, it also undertakes the responsibility of developing the local economy and attracting investment, and works closely with enterprises in the jurisdiction around the industrial policy to face and participate in the external market competition.
This characteristic helps to overcome the "government failure" and "market failure" in the economic sense at the same time, and local competition, factor market competition, and information competition are fully stimulated. The mutual shaping of the government and the market is a major contribution to China's economic reform, which has opened up a new model of economic development for developing countries.
Huaqing Bridge
At present, China's economy has entered a new pattern - a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the main body and domestic and international dual circulation. Under the new pattern, how to open up at a higher level, at a deeper level and in a wider range of fields, and develop with higher quality has posed new challenges to the local economic growth model with Chinese characteristics.
New quality productivity is the central government's grand strategy to cope with this new pattern.
Local governments should practice new quality productivity to meet new challenges, one is to break through, and the other is to create.
Chuang, because the past can be learned, can be imitated. Now we must renew ourselves and forge new paths.
In the past, local governments generally learned from the business management of Japan and South Korea, and learned from the investment model of Singapore, which has a more developed economy, stronger industries and more efficient enterprises; Nowadays, China's manufacturing industry has been relatively advanced, like the export of the "new three", but also at the forefront of the world. At this time, there is no way to imitate it, and there is no similar industry or strategy to take and copy.
Local governments must adapt measures to local conditions, watch the food and eat, and "carve out a future" on their own. Cai Jiliang said that Liangxi Science and Technology City is now a "creation chain" - from scratch, to create a new industrial chain by itself, in fact, this is what it means.
Conceptual diagram of Liangxi Science and Technology City
The core of innovation is the innovation of the administrative management system, which includes the innovation of both administrative concepts and governance models.
The management system is innovative, and the two cities are more prominent. The first is Qianhai, Shenzhen, the Qianhai Authority pioneered the "enterprise government", which has certain administrative authority and social public service functions, and through market-oriented operation and enterprise management, so as to improve efficiency, increase management transparency and save costs. First, Chongqing, as an investment and financing group, has greatly boosted the scale of urban investment and financing and effectively improved people's livelihood.
Wuxi has both systems, and both have made innovative reforms under the new situation. Liangxi Science and Technology City, which shoulders the major mission of "the window of the world to see Wuxi", draws on the "Qianhai model", although it does not have the special financial conditions of Qianhai, it is more flexible in the coordination mechanism and operation level, actively explores the integrated operation of Liangxi Science and Technology City Administration and Science and Technology City Development Group, and explores the innovative path of "functional area + street + state-owned enterprise + entrusted management platform".
There are "four major investments" in Liangxi District, namely Wuxi Liangxi Urban Development Group Co., Ltd., Wuxi Liangxi Industrial Development Group Co., Ltd., Wuxi Liangxi Cultural Tourism Development Group Co., Ltd., and Wuxi Liangxi Asset Management Co., Ltd. Compared with Chongqing's "Eight Major Investments", which only do investment and financing, Liangxi's "Four Major Investments" have transformed themselves into real industries on the one hand, and participated in the operation of other enterprises on the other hand, or transformed into mixed ownership.
According to Ding Dawei, the main business of Liangxi Industrial Development Group is to do input-output industry and transform tasks and burdens into resources. He summarized it as three modernizations - "marketization, specialization, and enterprise".
It can be seen that in Liangxi District, the four large enterprises represented by the industrial development group are responsible for combing, managing and operating key enterprises related to strategic orientation in the region horizontally, playing an "overall" role; Vertically, the higher authorities are very accountable, and it is necessary to ensure a virtuous cycle of funds. At the same time, the design of this system is a great test of the ability, quality and responsibility of the person in charge.
Nowadays, the local competition around economic development is still fierce, the assessment targets from the central government are still strict, and the relationship between local governments and the market still shows the characteristics of "gradual reform" and "dynamic adjustment" under the interaction of vertical and horizontal blocks.
Activating the motivation of local governments so that a hundred flowers can bloom in the practice of "new quality productivity" is the most important issue of China's economic development. Wuxi's "breaking" and "creating" in the old city of Liangxi District is exactly the meaning of the title.
Produced by the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute of Nanfeng Window
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