The construction of smart factories is accelerating, green manufacturing is accelerating, new models such as personalized customization and full life cycle services are constantly expanding, and the integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries is deeper... In the first three quarters, the development of my country's advanced manufacturing industry continued to be deepened and solid. Experts believe that the quality upgrading of advanced manufacturing is not only an inherent requirement for the iteration of the industry itself, but also a key starting point for cultivating new productivity. Adhering to the direction of intelligence, greenness, and integration, and continuing to expand and strengthen advanced manufacturing will stabilize the fundamentals of the manufacturing industry and enhance the resilience and competitiveness of the industrial and supply chains.
Good development trend
Since the beginning of this year, my country's advanced manufacturing industry has been developing well. Traditional industries are revitalized, emerging industries are accelerating, and future industrial layouts are taking the lead.
In the first three quarters, the added value of high-tech manufacturing above designated size increased by 14.3% year-on-year. In RMB, the proportion of exports of mechanical and electrical products and high-tech products in total export value increased by 3.8 and 4.9 percentage points respectively compared with the same period last year. New products such as humanoid robots are entering the market at an accelerated pace, results in the field of innovative drugs are emerging, and new tracks such as 6G, brain-computer interfaces, and biomanufacturing are being cultivated at an accelerated pace.
Wang Weiming, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that currently, my country has built more than 13,000 advanced smart factories and more than 500 outstanding smart factories. Domestic computing power and large model adaptation capabilities have been continuously enhanced. More than 1,000 application scenarios have been formed in 20 industries such as steel, automobiles, and medicine, and more than 100 industrial intelligences that embody the "experience of old masters" have been selected and promoted.
"my country has a total of 8,336 green factories and a total of 616 green industrial parks; energy conservation, environmental protection, hydrogen energy and other green emerging industries have been cultivated and expanded; the energy consumption of the added value of industrial units above designated size continues to decline." said Tao Qing, director of the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Multiple fields of advanced manufacturing have formed a "national team + private enterprise" linkage innovation model to accelerate the implementation and transformation of key technologies in industrial scenarios. Liu Zhao, deputy director of the National Supercomputing Wuxi Center, said that the supercomputing center actively links various entities to promote the construction of computing power networks, fully stimulates the independent innovation vitality of private enterprises, and promotes the full release of the value of computing power in market-oriented application scenarios. For example, Taichu (Hangzhou) Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd., a national-level specialized and innovative "little giant" company, has joined hands with the supercomputing center and dozens of universities and industry chain partners to launch a domestic AI4S computing platform to apply super-intelligent fusion capabilities to advanced manufacturing fields.
Focus on intelligent manufacturing
At present, the global industrial chain is accelerating the reconstruction, and the manufacturing industry is no longer competing on the scale of production capacity, but on the comprehensive competitiveness of quality, efficiency and safety. Intelligence is the key path to improving this comprehensive capability.
Li Mingyan, director of the Intelligent Economy Research Institute of Saizhi Industrial Research Institute, said that digital intelligence technology is deeply integrated into the entire process of R&D, production, supply chain and management, promoting factories to shift from "automated execution" to "self-sensing, self-decision-making, and self-optimization", and production efficiency, response speed and quality benefits will be simultaneously improved.
The large-model craftsman factory is a distributed and evolvable intelligent production system created by Inspur Yunzhou for industrial scenarios. It accumulates the craftsmanship know-how of old craftsmen into high-quality data and then trains it into industry large-scale models and job intelligence agents. For example, the Qingdao Mold Industry Large Model Craftsman Factory brings together more than 100 senior mold craftsmen to provide digital and intelligent transformation services to mold industry clusters and small and medium-sized enterprises. It has been implemented in many local mold companies, improving work efficiency and reducing corporate operating costs.
The key to developing a new generation of intelligent manufacturing is to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence technology with the entire manufacturing chain, promote changes in production methods and corporate organizational forms, explore and form new manufacturing models, and help companies improve efficiency, reduce costs, and better meet market demand.
Wang Weiming said that currently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is studying and drafting relevant policies for a new generation of intelligent manufacturing to accelerate the deep integration of artificial intelligence and manufacturing. The next step will be to give full play to my country's active artificial intelligence innovation and rich manufacturing scene advantages, focusing on four aspects: cultivating smart factories in a gradient manner, innovatively developing smart equipment, accelerating the research and promotion of smart technology, and deepening international cooperation in smart manufacturing.
Take advantage of clusters
Advanced manufacturing clusters are an important carrier for building a strong manufacturing country and an important starting point for improving the competitiveness of the modern industrial system.
At present, 80 national advanced manufacturing clusters have taken root in 26 provinces, covering high-end equipment, new generation information technology, new materials, intelligent networked new energy vehicles and other fields, achieving full-scale connectivity of key manufacturing industry chains, forming an industrial layout with clear echelons and dislocation coordination.
The cluster gathers more than 1,700 national-level innovation carriers and more than 3,000 public service platforms, becoming a "strong magnetic field" for manufacturing innovation sources. Anchoring breakthroughs in the direction of intelligence, greenness, and integration, industry-level industrial Internet platforms have been generally built, and a total of 1,716 national green factories have been cultivated. Production processes have been reconstructed with digital intelligence technology, and processes have been upgraded with green and low-carbon technologies, driving a significant increase in total factor productivity.
Wang Weiming introduced that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will systematically promote the upgrading and upgrading of national-level clusters. For clusters that already have strong international competitive advantages, focus on improving innovation source capabilities and global resource allocation capabilities, and accelerate their progress towards world-class clusters; for clusters in the accelerated growth stage, focus on making up for shortcomings, forging long boards, strengthening the main body, optimizing the ecology, and transforming industrial development potential into core competitiveness. At the same time, we will guide advanced manufacturing clusters to deepen cross-regional resource sharing, cross-field technology integration, and integrated development of upstream and downstream industrial chains to form synergy for development.
"We will strengthen precise policy support, increase support for advanced manufacturing clusters from the aspects of innovation platform layout, high-end talent introduction, and factor resource guarantee, promote the cluster's leap from physical agglomeration to core competency system integration, and provide hard-core support for building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as its backbone." Wang Weiming said. (Economic Daily reporter Huang Xin)
