Economic Daily: Manufacturing industry needs to accelerate its move towards high-end
During the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the First Session of the 14th National People's Congress on March 5th, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "I often say that two things must be guaranteed. One is that China must firmly secure its food bowl, and the other is that the manufacturing industry must be built. A country with a population of over 1.4 billion must solve these two problems on its own. The important speech of General Secretary once again clarified the strategic position of the manufacturing industry as the lifeline of the national economy, and pointed out the direction for the high-quality development of China's manufacturing industry.
Manufacturing is the foundation of a nation and a strong country. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, focusing on the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the unprecedented changes in the world in a century, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has attached great importance to the development of the manufacturing industry and has repeatedly emphasized the importance of accelerating the construction of a manufacturing power. It provides a fundamental basis for building a solid foundation for China's manufacturing industry. From the central to the local level, a series of policies have been introduced one after another, bringing "timely rain" to the development of the manufacturing industry, and giving strong support to the advantages of China's manufacturing industry.
The most complete range of global industrial categories, the most complete industrial system, and the leading global industrial chain supporting capabilities have laid a solid foundation for China's manufacturing industry to continuously enhance its innovation, competitiveness, and risk resistance. Not only that, relying on China's super large market advantage and the world's largest middle-income group, in the wave of deep integration of digital economy and real economy, new competitive advantages of China's manufacturing industry are forming and becoming increasingly prominent.
Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. From the overall trend, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is flourishing, and major industrial powers around the world are laying out their manufacturing industries to seize the high ground of competition. The global industrial chain restructuring, supply chain reshaping, and value chain restructuring are constantly deepening. From an external perspective, in recent years, some countries have been intensifying their suppression of China's advanced manufacturing industry, and China's manufacturing industry is facing a complex international environment. From an internal perspective, China's manufacturing industry is still at the low end of the global value chain, with problems such as being large but not strong, some core technologies being controlled by others, and an imbalanced supply and demand structure.
The upward trend of China's manufacturing industry requires the cultivation of internal strength. As General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, China cannot lack manufacturing at any time. At present, China's manufacturing industry has a complete range of categories and varieties. The next step is to strive to develop high-end manufacturing industry and achieve comprehensive improvement. Promoting the acceleration of China's manufacturing industry towards high-end development is an urgent need to build a competitive advantage as a major country and a strategic choice to achieve high-quality economic development.
The first priority is to build a solid industrial foundation capability. The industrial chain and supply chain must not fall off at critical moments, which is an important characteristic that a major country's economy must possess. Practice has proven that in order to avoid falling off the chain, we must deepen the promotion of "strengthening the chain, supplementing the chain, and stabilizing the chain". Strengthen the reconstruction of industrial foundation and the research and development of major technological equipment, focus on filling gaps and forging long plates, strengthen the supply guarantee of raw materials, key components, etc., implement the leading enterprise chain guarantee and stability project, strengthen the collaborative research and development of upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, large, medium and small enterprises, and promote the development of the entire industrial chain.
The key is to accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. The leading position of advantageous industries still needs to be consolidated, and more Chinese business cards should be polished in fields such as new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, mobile communications, and power equipment; Traditional industries need to revitalize their advantages through transformation and upgrading, and enhance their position and competitiveness in the global division of labor; Emerging industries should be actively cultivated and strengthened, and future industries should have a forward-looking layout to seize the competitive high ground.
Fundamentally stimulating innovation vitality comprehensively. Innovation is the core driving force for the transformation of manufacturing industry from large to strong, and enterprises are the main body of technological innovation. Strong enterprises lead to strong industries. China's manufacturing industry requires both large enterprises with international competitiveness and ecologically dominant enterprises with industrial chain control, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises with unique skills. Only by building a sound industrial ecosystem for integrated innovation and development of large, medium, and small enterprises, and constructing a collaborative innovation system for the manufacturing industry, can we input more driving force into China's manufacturing industry and truly build a solid foundation for the manufacturing industry.
Information source: Economic Daily
