Policy Suggestion on Developing Future Industry of Equipment Manufacturing Industry in China
Reprinted from "Economy" magazine.
In
January 2024, seven departments including the Ministry of Industry and
Information Technology jointly issued the "Implementation Opinions on
Promoting the Innovative Development of Future Industries", clearly
defining six key tasks such as comprehensively laying out future
industries, accelerating technological innovation and industrialization,
and creating landmark products. The "Implementation Opinions" require
strengthening future high-end equipment and building a globally leading
high-end equipment system. Equipment manufacturing industry is regarded
as the "backbone" of manufacturing industry and is an important support
for promoting the innovative development of future industries. Based on
equipment manufacturing industry to promote the innovative development
of future industries is of great significance for developing new-quality
productive forces, building a modern industrial system, and advancing
new industrialization.
Fully understand the important significance of future industries.
Laying
out future industries is an inevitable requirement of the new round of
technological revolution and industrial transformation. Judging from the
global development trend of future industries, future industries mainly
focus on three aspects: intelligence, low carbon, and health. Moreover,
the integration of new technologies and traditional industries
accelerates the development of future technologies. At present,
developed countries have all increased their efforts to implement
strategic layouts for future industries. China has also begun to
comprehensively lay out future industries, grasp the global trends of
scientific and technological innovation and industrial development, and
focus on promoting the industrial development in six major directions:
future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future
energy, future space, and future health.
Laying
out future industries is an important path to cultivating new-quality
productive forces. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that
"new-quality productive forces are those in which innovation plays a
leading role, getting rid of traditional economic growth modes and paths
of productive forces development, and having the characteristics of
high technology, high efficiency, and high quality, conforming to the
advanced productive forces quality state of the new development
concept." By proactively laying out future industries, strengthening the
research and development and application promotion of frontier
technologies, creating landmark products such as high-end cultural and
tourism equipment, advanced and efficient aviation equipment, and deep
resource exploration and development equipment, opening up new tracks
such as artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, brain-computer
interfaces, the metaverse, the next generation of the Internet, 6G,
quantum information, deep-sea aerospace development, and building new
advantages for future development, making future industries the carrier
of new-quality productive forces.
Laying
out future industries is a key starting point for building a modern
industrial system. The report to the 20th National Party Congress
pointed out: "Build a modern industrial system. Adhere to focusing on
the real economy in developing the economy, promote new
industrialization, and accelerate the building of a strong manufacturing
country, a quality powerhouse, an aerospace powerhouse, a
transportation powerhouse, a cyber powerhouse, and a digital China."
Generally speaking, laying out future industries can promote the
improvement of the modernization level of industrial chains and supply
chains from four dimensions: factor supply, terminal demand, regional
industrial layout, and integration into the global industrial division
system.
Laying
out future industries is a strategic measure to grasp the initiative of
future development. China is being squeezed at both high and low ends
of the industrial chain and supply chain by developed countries and
developing countries. On the one hand, China must continuously climb to
the high end of the value chain to deal with the continuously escalating
competition from developing countries such as India and Vietnam. On the
other hand, developed countries led by the United States are constantly
surrounding and suppressing China at the high end of strategic
industries such as integrated circuits, biopharmaceuticals, and 5G.
Facing these severe challenges, China must not only achieve independent
research and development of key technologies within the existing
technological framework and break through the current technological
constraints, but also need creative and forward-looking thinking. It is
necessary to make advanced layouts in fields such as quantum
information, hydrogen energy and new energy storage, brain-like
intelligence, future networks, life and health, and frontier materials,
open up new tracks for the development of future industries, and achieve
"changing lanes and leading the way".
Experience reference for the development of future industries in developed economies.
Judging
from the relevant policies launched by major economies such as the
United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan, they are all
based on their own advantageous fields and industrial characteristics,
and are laying out future industries such as quantum science, artificial
intelligence, future networks, life and health, new energy, new
materials, aerospace and oceans. Increasing R & D investment in
forward-looking technology fields, cultivating and attracting
multi-level talents, improving scientific and technological
infrastructure, and strengthening the role of scientific and
technological policies and industrial policies have become the common
policy choices of major developed countries. Drawing on the experience
of developed countries, in the development of future industries, China's
equipment manufacturing industry should, based on understanding the
global layout and development trend of future industries, start from
China's actual situation, give full play to institutional advantages,
and continuously make efforts in terms of improving scientific and
technological research and development levels, research and development
efficiency, research and development investment, infrastructure, and
talent cultivation to create a good environment for the development of
future industries.
First, strengthen frontier and strategic scientific and technological research and development.
Scientific
and technological innovation has become the main battlefield for
strategic games among major countries in the world. If China's equipment
manufacturing industry wants to win the initiative in the development
of future industries, it should strengthen its scientific and
technological innovation capabilities. First, it is necessary to
continuously improve the overall scientific and technological level in
the field of equipment manufacturing, strengthen original, breakthrough,
and leading scientific and technological research, and break through
the "stuck neck" technologies in key core fields as soon as possible.
Second, it is necessary to adhere to demand-oriented and
problem-oriented approaches, deploy and implement strategic and reserve
scientific and technological research and development to meet major
national strategic needs and solve problems in economic and social
development, and open up new directions and key areas for industrial
development.
Second, improve the overall efficiency of the national innovation system.
China's
equipment manufacturing industry must give full play to institutional
advantages and continue to strengthen the development of national
strategic scientific and technological forces such as national
laboratories, national scientific and technological research and
development institutions, high-level research universities, and
scientific and technological leading enterprises, and improve the
overall efficiency of the national innovation system. First, build a
national major scientific and technological infrastructure system with
leading technology, efficient operation, strong innovation, and
significant comprehensive effects, support the reorganization of the
national key laboratory system, and create an "aircraft carrier-level"
innovation platform with international influence. Second, build a
world-class concentration area of large scientific installations and
promote the construction of comprehensive national scientific centers.
Third, promote breakthroughs in basic research, applied basic research,
key common technologies, and disruptive technologies to provide support
for future technological and industrial development. Fourth, promote the
transformation and engineering of future technologies, enhance the
spillover effect of scientific and technological infrastructure, and
lead and drive the innovative development of future industries.
Third, strengthen strategic investment in future technologies and industries.
The
development cycle of future technologies is relatively long, and there
is great uncertainty from 成果孵化、commercialization to industrialization.
China's support and investment in future industries cannot be "eager for
quick success". It should start from a long-term and strategic
perspective, establish and improve scientific and technological
innovation funds, scientific and technological achievement
transformation funds, intellectual property funds, future industry
development funds, etc., and give play to the guarantee role of
long-term and strategic funds for future scientific and technological
innovation and future industrial development.
Fourth, cultivate and introduce scientific and technological innovation talents.
The
essence of scientific and technological innovation is talent
competition. China should explore and build a multi-level talent
cultivation system that meets the needs of scientific and technological
innovation in future industries. First, through cooperation between
colleges and universities, scientific research institutions and
enterprises, order-based talent cultivation or introduction from around
the world, etc., ensure the talent supply for scientific and
technological innovation and the development of future industries.
Second, facing major national strategic scientific and technological
research tasks, actively explore and implement a more open talent
selection and employment system such as "revealing the list and leading
the generals", and cultivate and introduce discipline leaders with
world-leading levels guided by promoting breakthroughs in basic
research, underlying technologies, disruptive technologies, and future
industrial technologies. Third, guided by key fields of major national
strategies and major social needs, stimulate the academic interests of
students in institutions of higher learning to meet national strategic
needs and cultivate a group of reserve forces for future scientists and
future industrial talents.
The current situation of China's equipment manufacturing industry in developing future industries.
In
recent years, China's equipment manufacturing industry has maintained a
good development momentum. Major economic indicators have steadily
improved, innovation-driven development has been deeply promoted, major
breakthroughs have been made in key core technologies, and new
technologies, new products, and new business forms have been
continuously applied. Among them, future industries such as robots,
quantum communication satellites, hydrogen energy and energy storage,
third-generation semiconductors, and sixth-generation communication
equipment are accelerating their layouts.
First,
the industrial development momentum is good, and the layout of future
industries is accelerating. With the rapid progress of the new round of
technological revolution and industrial transformation, future
industries are increasingly receiving great attention from the Party
Central Committee and the State Council. In the forefront scientific and
technological fields of equipment manufacturing such as artificial
intelligence, quantum information, integrated circuits, aerospace
technology, deep earth and deep sea, various regions are planning and
implementing a number of forward-looking and strategic major national
scientific and technological projects.
Second,
intelligent technology continues to expand, and green and low-carbon
transformation is continuously promoted. Judging from the development
trend, the future industries of equipment manufacturing mainly present
two technological evolution directions: intelligence and green. First,
the intelligent trend is accelerating. In 2023, the production of
industries related to intelligent equipment manufacturing maintained
high speed. The added value of intelligent vehicle-mounted equipment
manufacturing and intelligent unmanned aircraft manufacturing increased
by 60% and 20.5% respectively. The production of high-tech instruments
and meters is accelerating, helping the intelligent development of
various industries. At the same time, fields such as artificial
intelligence, quantum technology, next-generation communication
technology, and human-computer interaction have become the current hot
spots of frontier science and technology, and new technologies and
products in related fields are continuously launched. Second, the green
and low-carbon transformation is accelerating. In 2023, the output of
"three new products" such as new energy vehicles, solar cells, and
lithium-ion power batteries for automobiles increased by 30.3%, 54.0%,
and 22.8% respectively compared with the previous year. The output of
hydroelectric generating sets, wind turbines, and charging piles
increased by 35.3%, 28.7%, and 36.9% respectively. Electric aircraft,
hydrogen energy and energy storage, and low-cost nuclear power have
continuously made technological breakthroughs.
Third, innovation infrastructure is continuously consolidated, and major technological products have made breakthroughs.
Breakthrough
technologies and disruptive innovations are an important basis for the
development of future industries. First, the innovation infrastructure
in the field of equipment manufacturing is continuously improved. In
recent years, major national scientific and technological infrastructure
such as the 500-meter aperture spherical radio telescope, the fully
superconducting tokamak nuclear fusion experimental device, and the
positron-electron collider have been completed one after another. At the
end of 2023, there were a total of 260 key laboratories, engineering
research centers, and innovation centers listed and approved for
construction in the machinery industry. This has laid a good foundation
and conditions for scientific and technological innovation. Second,
major technologies and products are constantly breaking through. In the
field of quantum information, China's independently developed world's
first space quantum science experimental satellite "Mozi" was launched
in 2016. In the field of hydrogen energy, significant technological
progress has been made in links such as production, storage and
transportation, and proton exchange membrane electrolyzer technology is
at the international leading level. In terms of space technology,
China's manned spaceflight engineering space station construction
technology has been fully verified.
Fourth, major projects of future industries are continuously landing, and the industrialization process is accelerating.
In
recent years, China has continuously strengthened the forward-looking
layout of future industries. First, major projects related to future
industries are continuously landing. For example, in August 2017, the
National Quantum Secure Communication "Beijing-Shanghai Trunk Line"
project organized by the National Development and Reform Commission
completed the construction of a quantum secure communication backbone
line with a total length of more than 2,000 kilometers. In April 2021,
the future Internet experimental facility, an important part of China's
future network experimental facility project, was officially opened.
Second, leading enterprises are accelerating the layout of future
industries. For example, in the field of hydrogen energy, China has
initially laid out a hydrogen energy industry chain covering links such
as hydrogen production, storage and transportation, filling, and
application. Leading enterprises actively carry out hydrogen energy
industry layout, strengthen strategic cooperation, accelerate the
industrialization of all links in the hydrogen energy industry chain,
and lead the development of the hydrogen energy industry.
At
the same time, when China's equipment manufacturing industry develops
future industries, it has a good foundation in terms of innovation
resources, capabilities, R & D organizations, and industrial
foundations. However, it still faces problems such as insufficient
industrial foundation capabilities, key core technologies awaiting
breakthroughs, an imperfect industrial innovation ecosystem, and
insufficient supply of scientific and technological innovation talents.
First, the industrial foundation capabilities need to be improved.
For
many years, weak industrial foundation capabilities have become the
biggest bottleneck restricting the development of China's industries. In
terms of hardware, there are obvious shortcomings in basic
manufacturing equipment urgently needed in key fields such as special
production equipment, special production lines, and special detection
systems. The effective supply capacity of equipment in frontier and
emerging fields is seriously insufficient. Most high-end chips,
industrial robot and artificial intelligence core components, aerospace
power systems and device products rely on imports. In terms of software,
integrated circuit design software, operating systems, databases,
artificial intelligence algorithms, etc. still lag behind the advanced
global level. In the field of future industries, there is still a gap
between China's core technical equipment and the international advanced
level. For example, there is a large gap between China's frontier
research, prototype development and application promotion in the field
of quantum computing and Europe and the United States.
Second, key technologies face blockade from developed countries.
Compared
with traditional industries, the new economy led by future industries
has the characteristics of geometric explosive growth. At present, the
development model of scientific and technological innovation and future
industries has changed from chain innovation to ecological innovation.
In future industries, from upstream materials, chips, components, to
midstream equipment, systems, terminals, and downstream applications and
services, Chinese enterprises are involved to varying degrees. However,
developed countries and regions such as the United States are trying to
exclude Chinese companies from the international innovation ecosystem
of future industries by cutting off their international supply chains,
in order to consolidate the technological leadership, industrial
dominance, and ecological discourse power of the United States in future
industries in the long term. At present, in the most important future
industry segmentation fields, the global innovation ecosystem is almost
dominated by American companies. China's future industrial development
is at a new international environment and historical inflection point,
facing unprecedented difficulties and challenges.
Third, the industrial innovation ecosystem needs to be improved.
Compared
with mature industries, the innovation ecosystem for the development of
future industries in the current equipment manufacturing industry is
still imperfect. First, there are still breakpoints and blockages in the
industrial innovation system. The development of future industries will
generate innovation needs in multiple aspects such as raw materials,
parts, production equipment, and industrial software. However, at
present, the collaborative innovation and deep integration of industry,
universities, research institutes, and applications in China's equipment
manufacturing industry are not enough, and there are still bottlenecks
in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and
the output efficiency of innovation is not high. Second, the
infrastructure, technical standards, testing and certification, and
regulatory systems for future industries are not perfect, and there is a
lack of unified strategic planning and top-level design. Taking the
hydrogen energy industry as an example, a national hydrogen energy
development strategic plan has not yet been issued, and the standards,
regulations, and policy systems for building hydrogen refueling stations
as important infrastructure are not yet complete. Third, the supporting
policies are imperfect and inconsistent. Different regions have
different support 力度 for leading industries related to equipment
manufacturing, resulting in different development environments for
different industries, and the innovation behaviors and innovation
capabilities of different industries are uneven.
Fourth, there is an insufficient supply of scientific and technological innovation and entrepreneurship talents.
Innovative
talents are the key to technological and industrial development and are
crucial to the development of future industries. However, in China's
equipment manufacturing field, the proportion of basic research and
applied research talents is relatively low, especially lacking
cross-border and compound talents. The advantage of high-level talent
teams in key core technology fields is not yet significant, and there is
an urgent need to cultivate, introduce, and use a large number of
strategic scientific and technological talents, first-class scientific
and technological leading talents, and innovation teams. Intelligent
manufacturing represents the deep integration of advanced manufacturing
and a new generation of information technology. According to the data
analysis of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the
demand for intelligent manufacturing talents in 2025 is 9 million, and
the talent gap is expected to reach 4.5 million. Among them, there is
currently a large gap in artificial intelligence talents. The domestic
supply and demand ratio is 1:10, and the supply and demand ratio is
seriously unbalanced.
Five starting points for the development of future industries in China's equipment manufacturing industry.
First, enhance the ability of scientific and technological innovation source.
Facing
frontier fields and major needs, strengthen the layout of frontier
technologies and "hard technology" innovation. First, highlight key
common technologies, frontier leading technologies, modern engineering
technologies, and disruptive technology innovation, promote the green,
intelligent, and customized development of equipment manufacturing
industry, and provide strong support for building services for major
national strategies. Second, strengthen support for basic research in
frontier science and technology, and layout innovation chains around
fields or key pain points in the industrial chain with major industrial
safety hazards or seriously restricting industrial development, such as
basic materials, core parts, major equipment, advanced scientific
instruments and inspection and testing equipment, and industrial
software. Third, increase support for innovation investment in "hard
technology", encourage key regions to increase investment in major
scientific and technological infrastructure, take the initiative to
undertake and break through the national "stuck neck" core technology
research, achieve original technology leading breakthroughs, and support
various regions to create landmark industries in 细分领域 based on
endowment advantages.
Build
a high-level innovation platform system and promote the integrated
development of industrial and innovation chains. First, accelerate the
layout of major scientific and technological innovation platforms, and
newly build and improve a number of innovation infrastructures such as
industrial innovation centers, technological innovation centers,
engineering research centers, Internet innovation and entrepreneurship
platforms, future industrial technology platforms, future factory test
platforms, and testing platforms. Second, give full play to the role of
institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutes,
increase efforts to attract world-class enterprises to set up research
and development centers, and accelerate the formation of innovation
consortia in which various innovation entities cooperate with each
other, achieve more "from 0 to 1" breakthroughs in leading-edge
technologies and key common technologies, and achieve more "from 1 to N"
breakthroughs in leading-edge advantageous fields. Third, create
characteristic future industry professional parks with scientific
positioning, distinct business forms, prominent functions, and complete
scenarios, accelerate the formation of a number of future industry
tracks, build a number of new research and development institutions,
enhance technological research and development functions, and improve
the supply capacity of key common technologies for future industries.
Secondly, strengthen, expand, and optimize market entities.
Increase
financial support for enterprises and effectively stimulate the
"innovation and entrepreneurship" vitality of market entities. First,
establish a professional incubation fund for the future development of
the equipment manufacturing industry, incubate and cultivate a number of
major technological projects, industrial projects, and leading
innovation teams, and cultivate a number of seed enterprises at the
forefront of future industry technologies. Second, strengthen the
regional innovation supporting policy guarantee mechanism, expand the
scope of application of the policy of enjoying additional deductions for
research and development expenses in advance, and appropriately
increase the reward intensity for additional deductions for research and
development expenses for obtaining original and breakthrough innovation
results. Third, establish a long-term mechanism to implement credit
support for small and medium-sized enterprises, especially private
enterprises, promote small and medium-sized enterprises to increase
technological innovation investment counter-cyclically; explore the
introduction of long-term funds through methods such as long-term
bond-to-equity conversion; appropriately adjust the financing structure,
increase the proportion of direct financing such as equity and bonds,
reduce the growth rate of credit scale, and actively promote mature
innovative enterprises to be listed on the Science and Technology
Innovation Board and the New Third Board.
Optimize
the enterprise cultivation gradient and drive the development of the
future equipment manufacturing industry through the integration of
large, medium, and small enterprises. First, give play to the leading
and guiding role of large enterprises in product architecture design and
industrial development direction, encourage industry-leading
enterprises to increase their independent research and development
efforts, strengthen supervision over industry-leading enterprises, and
curb monopoly and unfair competition. Second, widely carry out
"innovation and entrepreneurship" activities, increase efforts in
technological innovation and talent cultivation for enterprises,
encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to develop in the direction
of specialization, refinement, uniqueness, and novelty, and create a
number of unicorn enterprises and high-tech enterprises in key
industries. Third, with the goal of supplementing technological
shortcomings and promoting industrial upgrading, encourage all regions
to carry out investment promotion for the equipment manufacturing
industry in light of their own advantages, and attract domestic and
foreign first-class research teams and innovation and entrepreneurship
enterprises through the "precision investment promotion + independent
cultivation" model, focus on cutting-edge emerging technologies, and
cultivate a new force for future industries.
Once again, look ahead and create diverse application scenarios.
Taking
the cultivation of new industrial forms as the driving force,
continuously create early application scenarios for future industries.
First, with the goal of realizing "prospering the country through
scenarios," establish future industry technology research institutions,
provide overall industrial technology solutions, and improve the ability
to accurately put forward forward-looking needs for the future. Second,
support national innovative cities and independent demonstration zones
to centrally carry out application scenario tests for the
industrialization of cutting-edge new technologies, and establish
forward-looking innovative pilot demonstration projects for trial
implementation. Third, according to economic and social development
needs, based on resource endowments, industrial foundations, and
comparative advantages, support all regions to focus on developing the
equipment manufacturing industry in key fields and vigorously promote
the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy.
With the goal of cultivating new models, new business forms, and new products, continuously create application incubation scenarios for cutting-edge technologies. First, gradually build a full-cycle incubation mechanism. Driven by social needs, explore the construction of future urban scenario test areas in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and other places, effectively integrate scientific and technological research and development resources, fully open up the chains of basic research, application development, achievement transformation, and industrialization, and drive the integrated research and product incubation and transformation of high-quality innovation resources. Second, focus on supporting innovative enterprises to participate in the construction of future industry application scenarios, promote the pilot demonstration and integrated application of innovation achievements in the application scenario system of development zones, and turn application scenarios into a strategic platform for the "emergence and realization" of high-precision and cutting-edge innovation achievements. Third, strengthen the sorting and excavation of new technological products for future industry application scenarios, and strongly support technology innovation-oriented enterprises to flexibly participate in market demand projects and carry out scene actual measurements and market validations of integrated innovation of new technologies, new models, new business forms, and new products. Fourth, fully rely on policies such as the selection of national innovative cities and the pilot of national independent innovation demonstration (test) zones to select innovative technology products and solutions with forward-looking and potential. Fifth, strengthen the demonstration and promotion of application scenarios, encourage large state-owned enterprises to apply innovative products (services) to build new scenarios, accelerate the industrial transformation of cutting-edge technologies through demand-side support, and form a number of high points for future scientific and technological innovation and industrial development.
Fourth, improve the new economic ecosystem.
Accelerate
the promotion of new infrastructure and application ecology to boost
the digitalization of industries and the industrialization of digital
technologies. First, promote the layout and construction of science and
innovation spaces with functional facilities such as concept
verification, future laboratories, computing power, and data.
Scientifically coordinate and advance project establishment and
investment attraction, and guide enterprises to invest prudently and
rationally. Second, effectively strengthen intellectual property
protection, strengthen the software capabilities and content ecology
construction of new infrastructure, and increase the incubation and
support for content and software. Third, establish special investment
funds to guide and leverage the entry of social capital, provide
appropriate financial interest subsidies for key projects of new
infrastructure, and encourage social capital to actively participate
through guarantee funds, guidance funds, and other means. Fourth,
increase support for basic and frontier innovative research projects and
service platforms to provide necessary basic research support for major
key common technology breakthroughs related to new infrastructure.
Taking
improving the market-oriented allocation of factors as the focus,
enhance the degree of intelligence, greening, and customization of the
equipment manufacturing industry. First, strengthen the establishment of
research funds and set up talent titles at different levels in emerging
fields in the future to cultivate and stimulate knowledge-based,
skill-based, and innovative talents. Second, increase the income
proportion of innovative elements such as human capital, knowledge
capital, technology research and development, and scarce data, promote
enterprises to move from the low-level cycle of production and
processing links to emerging and frontier fields such as upstream and
downstream research and development design, brand creation, high-end
after-sales service, and supply and demand matching, and support
emerging industries with characteristics of future industries to become
stronger, larger, and better. Third, encourage manufacturing enterprises
to share data with digital economy enterprises, promote the
construction of government-guided supply and demand platforms,
continuously improve the customization level of enterprise
manufacturing, meet personalized, high-end, and advanced product
demands, and improve the digital level in future industrial fields.
Further
optimize the business environment and create a good atmosphere for the
development of future industries. First, in conjunction with structural
tax cuts, accelerate the development of artificial intelligence and
new-generation communication technologies, promote the iterative upgrade
of industrial infrastructure, reduce the cost of high-end elements, and
improve the cost structure of enterprises. Second, continuously
optimize and improve the industrial environment, accelerate the
cultivation of future industries, and continuously promote the
transformation of advantageous industries and frontier technologies into
future industries. Improve the policy evaluation system and perfect the
business environment evaluation mechanism. Third, actively improve the
government's approval rights and responsibilities, establish approval
process standards and service mode standards, simplify and optimize the
enterprise investment approval process and establishment procedures, and
promote enterprise investment facilitation. Fourth, further enhance the
liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment, improve the
level of opening up of service trade, and strengthen cooperation in
high-end industrial chains and future industrial projects.
Finally, strengthen international and domestic innovation cooperation.
Promote
the "bringing in" and "going out" of industrial cooperation and create a
new situation of internal and external mutual promotion. First,
actively expand the boundaries of international research and development
resources, encourage enterprises and university research institutions
to integrate international innovation resources, increase the intensity
of introducing high-end scientific and innovation talents, and jointly
carry out research and development efforts with top foreign research and
development teams; attract outstanding overseas innovation and
entrepreneurship teams to join the "innovation and entrepreneurship"
activities and shape an open, orderly, and vibrant industrial innovation
ecosystem. Second, strengthen innovation cooperation with countries and
regions in the RCEP and countries and regions along the Belt and Road
Initiative in future industries, strengthen institutional construction
in aspects such as intellectual property protection and trading,
cross-border data flow, and scientific and technological ethics within
the framework of economic and trade cooperation, and strengthen
cooperation in basic sciences and industrial common technologies.
Promote
Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other domestic innovation center cities
to strengthen strategic cooperation and jointly build a regional
collaborative innovation cooperation system. First, focus on scientific
research in future industrial track, take the lead in forming
characteristic link competitiveness in some fields, and synergistically
promote the independent controllability of key links in the industrial
chain and innovation chain. Second, guided by industrial needs, actively
undertake different links of the industrial chain and innovation chain
in industries such as the digital economy, aerospace technology, and
green hydrogen energy, promote orderly cooperation, healthy competition,
and differentiated development of innovation center cities, and explore
the construction of a complete industrial gradient system with
interactive and integrated development of "multiple centers,
complementary resources, innovation promotion, and industrial synergy."
(Author: Xu Yuchen, senior engineer of the China Federation of
Industrial Economics)
