May 02, 2017 Source: International Business Daily

China has initially possessed the foundation and conditions for building and manufacturing a strong country. However, during the transition period from large to strong, the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry faces multiple challenges of speed shift, structural adjustment and kinetic energy conversion, and it is necessary to smoothly realize the expansion from quantity to quality. The strategic shift of improvement has tested the wisdom of all parties.

  Heavy task

 "At present, the overall characteristics of the manufacturing industry is not strong and the development model based on scale expansion has not been fundamentally reversed." Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Wei recently reported to the National People's Congress to promote supply-side structural reforms to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industries. It is pointed out that although China's manufacturing supply-side reform has made new breakthroughs, the task of building a manufacturing powerhouse is still arduous.

From the perspective of the development environment, the downward pressure on China's manufacturing industry continues to increase, and the rising cost constitutes a realistic challenge for the development of the manufacturing industry. The prices of traditional elements such as resources, environment, labor, and land are rising, and it is a long way to go to reduce the institutional transaction costs of enterprises. At the same time, since the outbreak of the international financial crisis, developed countries have implemented the "re-industrialization" strategy, trying to revive the manufacturing industry and seize the opportunities for development. China faces the "two-way squeeze" of high-end reflow and low-end transfer in the world manufacturing pattern.

In order to make the manufacturing industry become bigger and stronger, it is necessary to fill the overall weak manufacturing innovation capability, the manufacturing innovation system is not perfect; the overall quality of product quality and technical standards is not high, the brand value is not fully reflected; the resource and energy utilization efficiency is low. The problem of environmental pollution is more prominent; the adjustment of industrial structure needs to be deepened; the breadth and depth of the integration of informationization and industrialization are not short.

In this regard, Miao Wei stressed that in the process of transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, we must firmly implement the "Made in China 2025", give full play to the decisive role of the market allocation of resources and better play the role of the government, make good use of the existing foundation of manufacturing and Advantages, comprehensively promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation and development of emerging industries, implement a higher level of open strategy, and accelerate the cultivation of new advantages in the international competition of manufacturing.

Short board

Miao Wei pointed out that to speed up the construction and manufacture of a strong country, we must conscientiously implement "Made in China 2025", based on the current, long-term perspective, overall advancement, key breakthroughs, and small wins for victory.

For the next step of the promotion plan, Miao Wei focused on four tasks. The first is to optimize the manufacturing development environment and enhance the development momentum of the manufacturing industry. Take comprehensive policy measures to improve the private investment environment, stimulate the investment vitality of enterprises; deepen the reform of monopoly industries and reform of state-owned enterprises, make full use of industrial investment funds to support the development of advanced manufacturing; implement a new round of major technological transformation and upgrading projects in manufacturing. Reduce the cost of institutional transactions and reduce the cost of labor and logistics for enterprises. Guide financial institutions to increase financial support for manufacturing, explore new manufacturing investment and financing methods, enrich direct financing tools, and reduce restrictive measures for manufacturing foreign investment access. Coordinate “introduction” and “going out”, coordinating “going out” and orderly transfer of domestic industries, and dynamically adjusting the import tax policies and related catalogues of major technical equipment.

The second is to speed up structural adjustment and optimization and improve supply quality and level. In-depth promotion of capacity, improve the accuracy of the policy to promote market clearing, implement the steel and coal industry "zombie enterprise" restructuring and disposal work program, encourage the merger of major enterprises mergers and acquisitions, enhance the core competitiveness of the industry. Accelerate the development of advanced manufacturing, implement high-end equipment innovation and development projects, support the development of new generation information technology, new energy vehicles, biotechnology, new materials, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, etc.; accelerate the commercialization and application of new technologies, and actively cultivate emerging The market promotes new manufacturing models and promotes the transformation of production methods into flexibility, intelligence and refinement; comprehensively promotes green manufacturing and vigorously develops service-oriented manufacturing. Improve the quality of consumer goods in an all-round way, build a “100-year-old shop”, and strengthen the protection and management of intellectual property rights. Optimize the rational distribution of productive forces, implement the “Made in China 2025” provincial and municipal guidelines, deepen the construction of “Made in China 2025” pilot demonstration cities and industrial demonstration zones, guide local development of advantageous industries, and support the development of “specialized and special” for small and medium-sized enterprises.

The third is to fill in the shortcomings of scientific and technological achievements and enhance core competitiveness. We will improve the national manufacturing innovation system, focus on solving the problem of the lack of key common technologies in key areas, and form an efficient three-dimensional innovation system; foster the creation of new materials, robots and other manufacturing innovation centers, and launch the top-level design of the network layout of national manufacturing innovation centers. Strengthen key core technology research and develop demonstration projects of key common technology industrialization applications. Accelerate the application and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, cultivate high-value patents, and promote the rational distribution of intellectual property rights. Implement a deep integration strategy for military and civilian development. Strengthen the construction of the talent team, formulate the annual plan for the “Manufacturing Talent Development Planning Guide”, and optimize the manufacturing talent supply structure.

The fourth is to promote the integration of manufacturing and information technology. Implement intelligent manufacturing engineering, break through a number of key technical equipments, strengthen the support capabilities of industrial system solutions, and promote the integration of digital, networked, intelligent technologies and intelligent equipment in the entire process of the enterprise and the entire industry chain; District, classification promotes the construction of smart factories and digital workshops. Deepen the development of manufacturing and Internet convergence, support large-scale manufacturing enterprises, Internet companies and telecom operators to build an open "double-created" platform based on the Internet; deepen the promotion of the integration of two-in-one management system, foster and promote networked collaborative R&D and manufacturing, and large-scale A new model of "Internet + manufacturing" such as personalized customization and service-oriented manufacturing. Accelerate the development of the Industrial Internet, formulate and implement the development strategy of the industrial Internet, build an industrial Internet with low latency, high reliability and wide coverage; actively promote the construction of service platforms such as industrial cloud, industrial big data, industrial e-commerce, and promote the development of new business formats and application models . Focus on improving the level of industrial information security.