June 06, 2018 Source: Technology Daily

       On May 31, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that in May, the China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) was 51.9%, 0.5 percentage points higher than the previous month, and the overall expansion of the manufacturing industry accelerated. However, on May 26, the “White Paper on the Development of 2018 Advanced Manufacturing Industry” released by the Zhongcheng Think Tank at the Guiyang Big Data Expo pointed out that with the acceleration of the new round of industrial migration, the risk of manufacturing outflows has increased and China has developed advanced manufacturing. One of the challenges facing the industry.

In recent years, many foreign manufacturing companies have left China, and many foreign-invested manufacturing giants have begun to consider returning to their home factories. In this regard, some experts said that China's smart manufacturing target is based on high-end manufacturing. With the return of high-end manufacturing enterprises, it is bound to take away advanced technologies in related fields and affect the development of China's manufacturing industry. Only by taking technological innovation as the driving force and grasping new development opportunities can we overcome the impact of manufacturing outflows.

“The transformation of manufacturing industry has condensed a large number of technological innovation products, which is the most concentrated and active area of innovation, and also the main battlefield of technological innovation in various countries. The transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry has changed from big to strong – the way out is innovation, and the difficulty is also innovation.” On June 2, Liu Wenqiang, vice president of China Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute, said in an interview with the Science and Technology Daily.

Building a manufacturing innovation center is imminent

"The global manufacturing industry is undergoing a series of profound changes, and the global manufacturing innovation system is also undergoing restructuring. Therefore, it is crucial to accelerate the construction of a new innovation system." Liu Wenqiang said.

Liu Wenqiang said that at present, the global manufacturing industry is showing a new trend, mainly as follows: from the perspective of technology research and development, single technology is shifting to multiple technologies; from the perspective of research and development, it is widely involved in promoting multi-domain and cross-subject. Multi-agent collaborative innovation; from the perspective of innovation speed, innovation iteration is very fast, and speed wins make the various aspects of innovation cross-parallel; from the perspective of value, business model innovation and expansion have realized new value.

Liu Wenqiang said that under this background, all countries in the world are accelerating the manufacturing strategy and building a new type of innovation carrier. China's manufacturing is at an important juncture from the big to the strong, and there is still a certain distance from the manufacturing power. On the one hand, the ability of independent innovation is not strong, the key core technologies are lacking, and they are subject to people. On the other hand, the innovation carriers are scattered and repeated. Many research centers overlap in research and development content and lack coordination.

In addition, scientific research results have not been well transformed. Many large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in China account for less than 1% of R&D expenditures, while those in the United States, Japan, and Germany are generally more than 2%.

"In the face of these problems, it is extremely urgent to speed up the construction of manufacturing innovation centers and promote the construction of innovation systems." Liu Wenqiang said that the main goal of the Innovation Center is to maximize the integration of innovation resources, solve industrial common technical problems, and promote the transfer of scientific and technological achievements. To achieve industrialization.

Compared with the traditional engineering research center and engineering laboratory carrier, the innovation center to be built by the manufacturing industry emphasizes: creating a new type of innovation chain; solving the problem of decentralized and closed cross-cutting of resources; and solving the problem of how innovation and industry develop.

Liu Wenqiang believes that the core of the innovation center is open cooperation. In the management operation, it is necessary to highlight the market-oriented mechanism, highlight self-sustaining development, adopt a small core and large platform model, and absorb more innovative resources and innovative institutions through industry alliances and industries. At the same time, it is necessary to establish a market-oriented mechanism combining the combination of government, industry, and research to achieve "self-healing."

"Three Reengineering" to Help Technology Innovation

It is not just the manufacturing industry. If any industry wants to develop, it needs innovation. Innovation is the first driving force for development and the strategic support for building a modern economic system.

“Scientific and technological innovation is first of all basic research, then applied research and development, and then goes to the industry to form an industrial model. Currently, in order to better serve technological innovation, all industries and organizations need to carry out 'three re-engineering' in the development process, ie Process reengineering, functional reengineering, and platform reengineering.” Recently, Tang Huadong, deputy director of the State Council Counselor’s Office, said at the “National Research and Innovation Forum Forum·Global Technology Innovation Development and Exchange and Cooperation Summit 2018”.

Tang Huadong believes that in process reengineering, we must first recognize the basic processes and laws of technological innovation. He pointed out that in the process of technological innovation, it is necessary to pay attention to the basic elements of the four aspects. That is to say, the talent factor, talent is the strategic sign to win the initiative of international competition; the institutional guarantee factor, the system guarantees the whole research and development process, which is very important for enterprises and organizations. For the country, technological innovation requires an institutional guarantee; then, basic facilities and funding elements such as laboratories, infrastructure, and support personnel.

"In terms of functional re-engineering, some of the current government services have not been developed through the use of new technologies. They are slightly behind in the reference, supervision and service guarantee of technology, and the use of high-tech means is not enough." Tang Huadong suggested that The government should build a platform to better serve technological innovation, increase support in high-tech means, build big data platforms and service centers, improve service functions with high-tech means, and let artificial intelligence serve the technological innovation of various organizations.