75th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China - Warm Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China - Association Dynamics - News Center

In June 1840, the British fleet's brazen gunfire at the mouth of the the Pearl River opened the Opium War, and the humiliated old China passively stepped into a modern stagger; On October 1, 1949, the bright five starred red flag rose slowly from the Tiananmen Gate Tower, marking the founding of the People's Republic of China and the beginning of a grand historical narrative of 75 years of construction, reform, and development for the Chinese nation.

Once upon a time, China, which had accumulated poverty and weakness, was powerless in the face of primary industrial products such as "foreign nails," "foreign oil," "foreign cloth," "foreign fire," and "foreign ash; Once upon a time, Chinese manufacturing was labeled as "knockoff" and "inferior", and the history of "inferior to humans" deeply hurt the hearts of Chinese people. When the fast-moving high-speed rail reaches the "Chinese speed", the technical standards of Chinese high-speed rail become international standards; When the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macao Bridge, spanning the vast sea, makes a stunning appearance, "Chang'e" and "Wukong" dance across the sky, and "Jiaolong" and "Endeavour" explore the deep sea; When the C919 spreads its wings in the blue sky and the Shandong ship sails towards the ocean... Significant achievements have been made in manned spaceflight, lunar and fire exploration, deep sea and earth exploration, supercomputers, satellite navigation, quantum information, nuclear power technology, and large aircraft manufacturing. Major countries are constantly "upgrading" their heavy equipment, and China's manufacturing has achieved leapfrog growth from "unable to build" to "able to build" and then to "well built", leading the world in product production. The manufacturing power is steadily moving towards becoming a manufacturing powerhouse!

1、 Leapfrog growth in industrial economy

The added value of China's industry has increased from 12 billion yuan in 1952 to 39.9 trillion yuan in 2023, with an average annual growth rate of 10.5% calculated at constant prices. From 1949 to 1957, socialist transformation and the First Five Year Plan achieved great victories, and industrial production quickly recovered. During the entire period of the First Five Year Plan, the industrial added value maintained an average annual growth rate of 19.7%. From 1958 to 1978, during the "Second Five Year Plan" period until the eve of reform and opening up, China's industrial economy experienced twists and turns, with an average annual growth rate of 7.8%. In 1978, the industrial added value was 162.1 billion yuan. After the reform and opening up, China's industry has shown strong vitality and vigor, and the economic scale has rapidly grown. The industrial added value exceeded 1 trillion yuan in 1992, 10 trillion yuan in 2007, and over 20 trillion yuan in 2012, with an average annual growth rate of 11.4% from 1979 to 2012. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the industrial economy has ushered in an opportunity period for high-quality development. From 2013 to 2023, the average annual growth rate of industrial added value was 5.7%, with a shift in growth rate but structural optimization and improvement in quality and efficiency. According to World Bank data, the added value of China's manufacturing industry has surpassed that of the United States for the first time since 2010, firmly ranking first in the world. In 2022, it accounted for 30.2% of the world's total, becoming an important driving force for global industrial economic growth.

2、 Rapidly expanding industrial production capacity

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, our country's industry faced the basic conditions of broken factories and outdated equipment. The supply of raw materials was severely insufficient, and only a few varieties of daily consumer goods such as yarn, cloth, matches, soap, and flour were produced; Over the past 75 years, industrial development has expanded our territory. Nowadays, China can produce products covering various fields such as raw materials, consumer goods, and high-end equipment. Among the 500 major industrial products, more than 200 products have the highest output in the world.

The output of raw material products has increased exponentially compared to the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. In 2023, China's raw coal production will reach 4.71 billion tons, an increase of 146 times compared to 1949; The crude steel production was 1.02 billion tons, an increase of 6449 times; Cement production reached 2.02 billion tons, an increase of 3064 times; 970 million weight boxes of flat glass, an increase of 897 times; The output of fertilizers was 57.14 million tons, an increase of 9522 times. From a shortage of supply to a dazzling array of consumer goods, according to data from the Light Industry Federation, China currently ranks first in the world in terms of production of over 100 types of consumer goods. In 2023, the production of yarn and fabric will reach 22.34 million tons and 29.49 billion meters respectively, an increase of 67.3 times and 14.6 times compared to 1949.

Equipment production is booming, and the supply capacity of mid to high end products has significantly increased. Technologies such as underwater robots and drones, as well as high-end medical imaging equipment such as magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound imaging, are all at the international leading level. In 2023, China's automobile production reached 30.11 million units, ranking first in the world for 15 consecutive years; The production of mobile phones, microcomputers, color televisions, industrial robots, and other products is 1.57 billion units, 330 million units, 190 million units, and 430000 sets respectively, all ranking first in the world.

3、 Significantly enhanced international competitiveness

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the shortage of economy and insufficient openness constrained the development of industrial trade, and our country only had a small amount of exports to the outside world. After the reform and opening up, China has fully integrated into the global industrial division of labor system based on its continuously consolidated industrial foundation, and rapidly grown into a world trading power. Since 2009, China has maintained its position as the world's largest exporter of goods for several consecutive years. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has adhered to expanding opening up, and the quality of China's foreign trade has continuously improved. In 2023, the total export value of goods in China reached 23.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 1417 times compared to 1978.

The export product structure continues to optimize, and China's international competitiveness in high-tech and high value-added commodity markets has significantly improved. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, over 80% of China's exported goods were primary products. In 1978, the proportion of primary product exports decreased to 53.5%, while industrial finished product exports accounted for 46.5%. After 2000, industrial finished product exports rose to over 90%. In 2023, the proportion of electromechanical products in the total export value will reach 58.5%, of which 5.22 million vehicles will be exported, making China the world's largest automobile exporting country for the first time.

4、 Leading the high-end development of equipment manufacturing industry

The equipment manufacturing industry leads the high-end development of the manufacturing industry. Continuous breakthroughs in high-end innovation in the manufacturing industry. Technological achievements such as manned spaceflight, lunar exploration projects, quantum communication, manned deep-sea diving, radio telescopes, supercomputers, etc. continue to emerge, and new generation information technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things are deeply penetrating into the manufacturing industry. The great power's heavy machinery has attracted worldwide attention. Shenzhou-17 was successfully launched, the world's first 16 MW offshore wind turbine was connected to the grid for power generation, and the C919 domestically produced large aircraft began commercial operation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the added value of China's equipment manufacturing industry above designated size has grown at an average annual rate of 8.7%. In 2023, the added value of equipment manufacturing industry will account for 33.6% of the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size, an increase of 5.4 percentage points from 2012. High tech manufacturing supports the intelligent development of manufacturing industry. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the added value of high-tech manufacturing above designated size has grown at an average annual rate of 10.3%. In 2023, the added value of high-tech manufacturing will account for 15.7% of the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size, an increase of 6.3 percentage points from 2012. High tech products continue to grow rapidly. In 2023, China's production of service robots reached 7.833 million sets, and the production of 3D printing equipment was 2.789 million units, an increase of 23.3% and 36.2% respectively from the previous year.

The new energy industry accelerates the green development of manufacturing. The production of "new three" related products such as new energy vehicles, solar cells, and lithium-ion power batteries for automobiles has grown rapidly, with year-on-year increases of 30.3%, 54.0%, and 22.8% respectively in 2023. High speed production of renewable energy related equipment products, with green energy related products such as hydro generators, wind turbines, and charging piles increasing by 35.3%, 28.7%, and 36.9% respectively year-on-year in 2023. The production of green materials such as ultra white glass, carbon fiber and its composite materials, and bio based chemical fibers used in the solar energy industry increased by 58.6%, 57.1%, and 50.7% respectively compared to the previous year.

5、 Deepening the digital transformation of manufacturing industry

The leap from "Made in China" to "Intelligent Manufacturing in China" not only means a technological leap, but also a continuous pursuit of a modern industrial system that is independent, controllable, safe, reliable, and highly competitive in the manufacturing industry. Digital transformation is leading the manufacturing industry towards a new future of intelligence and greenness. China has built the most complete and largest industrial system in the world. Taking the digital transformation of manufacturing industry as the starting point, the integration of data and reality has been promoted in depth, the digital transformation has been deepened, and the industrial Internet has achieved full coverage of industrial categories. China's total computing power ranks second in the world, and the installed capacity of industrial robots accounts for over 50% of the global total. The popularization rate of digital R&D design tools in key industrial enterprises has reached 80.1%, and the CNC rate of key processes has reached 62.9%. The product development cycle of demonstration factories in the fields of large aircraft, new energy vehicles, high-speed trains, etc. has been shortened by about 30%, and production efficiency has been synchronously improved by nearly 30%.

By the end of 2023, the total number of 5G base stations in China will reach 3.377 million, and the total scale of data center racks in use nationwide will exceed 8.1 million standard racks. The total computing power scale will reach 23 trillion floating point operations per second, of which the intelligent computing power scale will reach 7 trillion floating point operations per second, with a growth rate of over 70%, providing the basic capability for efficient processing of massive data; The "5+2" top nodes are operating stably, serving more than 400000 enterprises, covering all 41 industrial categories, more than 340 influential industrial Internet platforms, and more than 96 million sets of industrial equipment connections; The CNC rate of key processes and the popularization rate of digital R&D design tools have reached 62.2% and 79.6% respectively, an increase of 12.1 and 9.4 percentage points compared to 2019. A total of 62 "lighthouse factories" have been built, accounting for 40% of the global total. 11 new factories were added throughout the year, accounting for 52.4% of the global total.

6、 Continuously enhancing technological innovation capability

When the People's Republic of China was founded, the technological foundation was almost zero, with only over 30 specialized scientific research institutions and almost no large-scale scientific research instruments and equipment. With the sounding of the horn of "marching towards science" in New China, our country has overcome one technological difficulty after another, becoming an important support on the road to rejuvenation. From the "Two Bombs and One Satellite" to nuclear submarines, from artemisinin to hybrid rice, from breakthroughs in petroleum geological exploration to the launch of ten thousand ton ships, China's scientific and technological innovation has always focused on the needs of the country and the people. New breakthroughs have been made in basic cutting-edge research, strategic high-tech fields have ushered in new leaps, the construction of the national innovation system has accelerated, and innovation driven high-quality development has achieved new results, providing strong guarantees for national security, economic and social development, and people's lives.

In 2023, the Global Innovation Index released by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows that China's comprehensive ranking of innovation capability has jumped from 34th in 2012 to 12th in 2023, making it the only middle-income economy among the top 30; The number of global top 100 technology innovation clusters has jumped to the top in the world, with 463000 high-tech enterprises; The expenditure scale of research and experimental development funds in the whole society ranks second in the world, with a ratio of 2.64% to GDP, exceeding the average level of EU countries; As of June 2024, the effective number of domestic invention patents in China reached 4.425 million, and the number of high-value invention patents per 10000 population reached 12.9; The World Intellectual Property Organization has recognized China as the world's largest international patent applicant country, accounting for 14% of the global total in information and communication technology patents. As of July 2024, China holds over 190000 valid robot related patents, accounting for approximately two-thirds of the global total. According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the global proportion of necessary patent declarations for China's 5G standards has reached 42%, providing a Chinese solution for global 5G construction. The development trajectory of the mobile communication technology industry is a microcosm of the rise of Made in China, with 1G blank, 2G following, 3G breakthrough, 4G parallel running, and 5G leading.

7、 New quality productivity leads the new era of equipment manufacturing industry

The equipment manufacturing industry leads the high-end development of the manufacturing industry, and the new quality productivity leads the equipment manufacturing industry into a new era. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, facing the fierce competition brought about by the new round of global technological revolution and industrial transformation, China has deeply implemented the innovation driven development strategy, accelerated the promotion of high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and formed and demonstrated strong driving force and support for high-quality development through the practice of new quality productive forces. In 2023, the average annual growth rate of the added value of China's equipment manufacturing industry above designated size is 8.7%. The added value of equipment manufacturing accounts for 33.6% of the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size, and the added value of high-tech manufacturing accounts for 15.7% of the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size. The output of service robots reached 7.833 million sets, and the output of 3D printing equipment was 2.789 million units, an increase of 23.3% and 36.2% respectively over the previous year.

The development and growth of strategic emerging industries have promoted the formation of new quality productivity and become an important engine leading the high-quality development of equipment manufacturing industry. With the rapid development of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and 5G, the integration of data and reality continues to advance, and the pace of industrial digitization and digital industrialization continues to accelerate. By the end of 2023, China has cultivated 421 national level intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories, over 10000 provincial-level digital workshops, and intelligent factories; There are a total of 153 lighthouse factories worldwide, of which 62 are located in China. The scale of the digital economy has consistently ranked second in the world for many years; New technologies continue to generate new scenarios and activate new driving forces, and the "three new" economy centered on new industries, new formats, and new business models has shown vigorous upward momentum. The added value of the "three new" economy is 22.4 trillion yuan, equivalent to 17.73% of GDP; Mechanical and electrical products account for 58.5% of the total export value, of which 5.22 million vehicles were exported. China has become the world's largest exporter of automobiles for the first time, and high-tech and high value-added products continue to enhance China's international competitiveness in manufacturing.

8、 The road through Xiongguan is as iron as iron, and now I am stepping forward from scratch

75 years ago, the first five-star red flag rose slowly, and the newly formed republic advanced towards the sunrise; 75 years later, in the dawn of the East, the Republic of the new era reorganized its attire and embarked on a new era of development and progress for the Chinese nation.

Minister Jin Zhuanglong of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pointed out, "We will continuously deepen reform, expand opening up, coordinate high-quality development and high-level security, vigorously promote new industrialization, strengthen the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, accelerate the development of new quality productive forces, and build a modern industrial system led by scientific and technological innovation and supported by advanced manufacturing

Transforming and upgrading traditional industries, consolidating and enhancing advantageous industries, developing and strengthening emerging industries, and forward-looking layouts for future industries... Over the past 75 years, Chinese manufacturing has climbed through obstacles and broken through waves to move forward; Looking into the future, Made in China will grow from big to strong, laying a solid foundation for comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese path to modernization.

After 75 years of vicissitudes and great changes, this great country with 5000 years of civilization has flourished and written a brilliant epic of struggle with the hands of the Chinese people in the great history of the Chinese nation. The Shandong Equipment Manufacturing Industry Association will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China together with its members and enterprises, wish the great motherland prosperity and success, and work hand in hand to achieve the new journey of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, moving steadily and far ahead!