As the main battlefield for cultivating new productive forces, advanced manufacturing drives the iterative upgrading of traditional industries and promotes the vigorous growth of future industries, injecting surging momentum into economic development. Over the years, my country's advanced manufacturing industry has achieved all-round breakthroughs in scale, industrial structure, technological innovation, and industrial integration, and has steadily built the backbone of the modern industrial system.
The competition in advanced manufacturing industry depends on product production capacity in the short term, and the comprehensive strength of industrial foundation, innovation and transformation capabilities and industrial ecology in the medium and long term. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we still need to focus on consolidating the foundation of advanced manufacturing, focusing on key core technologies, continuing to strengthen the industrial innovation ecosystem, accelerating the development of advanced manufacturing, and providing solid industrial support for Chinese-style modernization.
Overcome weak links
Advanced manufacturing is the most innovative and fruitful field in the manufacturing industry. It is also a high-profit and high-value-added field in the value chain. It is a high-end manufacturing system that integrates new technologies, new materials, and new management models.
Zhu Keli, founding director of the Guoyan New Economic Research Institute, said that while making great progress, advanced manufacturing still faces deep bottlenecks.
The primary shortcoming is that there are still weak links in the basic capabilities of the industry. Some high-end materials, precision components, industrial basic software, and advanced manufacturing processes have stuck points. The supply of original innovations is insufficient. The proportion of investment in basic research is still far behind that of developed countries. Many innovative results remain in the laboratory. The chain of pilot-scale transformation is not smooth. The efficiency of collaborative transformation between industry, academia, and research needs to be improved.
Secondly, structural contradictions are prominent, low-end homogeneous competition still exists, and some emerging tracks are prone to rush to the top, resulting in periodic overcapacity. There is a mismatch in talent supply. There is a large gap in high-end R&D talents and complex digital skills craftsmen, and the talent training system is out of touch with the real needs of the industry.
In addition, the cost of enterprise transformation is relatively high, a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises have limited funds, there is great pressure to invest in digitalization and green transformation, and the investment return cycle is relatively long. At the external level, geopolitical competition has intensified, the global industrial chain has been restructured, the export of high-end technologies and equipment has been restricted, and competition for international standards and intellectual property rights has become increasingly fierce, posing continued challenges to the security and stability of industrial and supply chains.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for basically realizing socialist modernization, laying a solid foundation and making full efforts. It is necessary to accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone and strive to improve advanced manufacturing capabilities. Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the development of a new generation of intelligent manufacturing will be accelerated, the manufacturing industry will be promoted from "intelligent to digital to connected", and smart factories and high-standard digital parks will be built. Promote the green and low-carbon transformation of industry, actively and steadily promote and achieve the carbon peak in the industrial sector. Promote the deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, accelerate the cultivation of new models and new business formats such as platform-based design and personalized customization, and innovate and develop service-oriented manufacturing.
Maintain a reasonable proportion
To develop advanced manufacturing, we must not only stabilize the foundation of the real economy and prevent the proportion of manufacturing from continuing to decline too rapidly; we must also focus on cultivating new industries and new tracks and strengthening advanced manufacturing clusters.
Xin Guobin said that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the development of advanced manufacturing will be accelerated, a reasonable proportion of manufacturing will be maintained, and the quality and efficiency of development will be further improved. Promote the improvement of process technology and product quality, and strengthen brand building. Promote innovative allocation of production factors and promote the extension of the manufacturing industry to both ends of the "smile curve". Adhere to the principle of "industry creates questions and science and technology answers questions", strengthen the construction of public technical service platforms, pilot test platforms and other carriers, and promote the acceleration of original technologies to pilot tests and achieve large-scale application. Implement the key tasks of deepening reform, strengthen planning guidance, standards and policy guarantees, deepen high-level open cooperation, and create a good industrial ecology.
At the same time, we will seize opportunities for industrial reform and accelerate the creation of a number of emerging pillar industries. We will deepen the implementation of major technical equipment research and industrial base reconstruction projects, and promote the entire chain to achieve decisive breakthroughs in key core technology research in key areas such as integrated circuits, industrial motherboards, and biomanufacturing. Focus on key areas of emerging industries such as new generation information technology, intelligent connected new energy vehicles, and robots, and create a number of benchmarks that lead the development of emerging industries.
Accelerate transformation and upgrading
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we must adhere to the collaborative efforts of innovation-driven, green leadership and stock upgrading to promote the two-way progress of advanced manufacturing and industrial upgrading.
"Artificial intelligence + manufacturing" will add new speed, new heights, and new results. It is necessary to build a solid technical foundation, accelerate the research and development of key technologies such as high-end training chips and multi-modal algorithms, tackle cutting-edge technologies such as brain-inspired intelligence and world models, promote the iteration of intelligent terminals such as humanoid robots and brain-computer interfaces, and explore implementation scenarios.
Make overall plans to promote industrial greening and green industrialization. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, our country will cultivate and build 500 zero-carbon factories and create a number of replicable and promoteable construction models. Promote raw material and fuel substitution, product structure optimization, and low-carbon technology integration in traditional industries such as steel, nonferrous metals, and petrochemicals. Classified policies will be implemented to promote the comprehensive utilization of renewable resources, bulk industrial solid waste, and new solid waste. Strengthen standards to improve the quality of green factories, green supply chains, and green industrial parks. By the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan", the output value of green factories at all levels will account for 45% of the total output value of the manufacturing industry above designated size.
Yao Jun, director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we will deepen the pilot projects for urban transformation of new manufacturing technologies, strengthen technological innovation, equipment updates, and model renewals, vigorously promote new technological transformations with the goal of improving quality and efficiency, focusing on the application of digital intelligence technology and green and low-carbon technologies, and promote the intelligent, green, and integrated development of traditional industries.
